Doddi Komarayya The First Martyr of the Telangana Armed Peasant Struggle · 4 July 1946 "Komarayya's death and martyrdom set ablaze the pent-up fury of the Telangana peasantry. People rose in all talukas in Nalgonda in masses." — Telangana People's Struggle and Its Lessons 🌾 FIRST MARTYR · TELANGANA ARMED STRUGGLE · 4 JULY 1946 Doddi Komarayya (also spelled Komaraiah / Komraiah / Komurayya) — a young peasant from a poor shepherd family in Kadavendi village — is recognized as the first martyr of the armed phase of the Telangana Peasant Movement . His death on 4 July 1946 at the hands of a landlord's hired goondas transformed the Telangana struggle from localized protests into a widespread armed rebellion that would eventually encompass over 4,000 villages and claim an estimated 4,000 lives. Born into the Kuruma/Golla (shepherd) community in Kadavendi village of the then Nalgo...
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