Venugopal, Nagasuri  <br/><br/>
Gandhian influence on freedom struggle in Telugu region  

 - Yojana: A Development Monthly  
 - 68(8), (Special issue) Aug, 2024: p.43-46 
<br/><br/> The Telugu translation of Gadicharla Harisarvothama Rao’s ‘Hindi Swaraj, the first book of Gandhiji, came out in 1920. This brought the Gandhi wave to the Telugu land. One can find articles about the success stories of Gandhi ji  in Telugu periodicals as early as 1908. In ‘Andhra Bharathi” monthly in 1990, Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi  Seetharamayya wrote a detailed essay titled ‘Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’ covering his achievements, methods of struggle, and constructive programmers of the South African movement. The hallmark of the impact of Gandhiji on Telugu petiole was the great success of the annual sessions of the Indian national congress at Bezwada in 1921 with two lakhs of audience members when the population of Vijayawada town was only forty thousand. – Reproduced