Subbarao Panigrahi

Subbarao Panigrahi (1933 ― 23 December 1969) was a Telugu revolutionary poet and leader of Srikakulam peasant uprising.^[1]^[2]

Career

Panigrahi was born in 1933 in a poor Odia Brahmin family at Sompeta of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. Initially, he worked as a priest in a local temple.^[3] Panigrahi wrote a number of songs, poems and dramas like Kalachakra, Vimukti, Kumkumrekha, Rikshawalla and Mrigajaal.^[4] He participated in Naxalbari uprising and joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). In 1969, Subbarao served the secretary of the Sompeta area committee of the party and also took charges to mobilised the people of Uddan and Paralakhemundi area.^[5] He organised the peasant movement in Srikakulam and Northern Andhra with two prominent Naxal leaders Vempatapu Satyanarayana and Adibhatla Kailasam.^[6]^[7] Panigrahi played a vital role in cultural wing of the party to form People's war in rural Andhra Pradesh.^[8]^[9] On 23 December 1969, he was killed in a police encounter near Andhra-Odisha border.^[10]^[4]^[11]

Popular culture

It is reported that Telugu action drama film Acharya is set on the uprising led by Panigrahi.^[12]^[13]^[14]

References

^ "In Srikakulam, A Mother Relives Choices She Made 50 Years Ago – To Pick up a Gun, To Give up a Baby". The Wire. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ Prakash, Brahma (28 June 2019). Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909584-1.
^ Shaw, Padmaja (4 September 2018). Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
^ ^a ^b Chattopadhyay, Asok (2–8 December 2018). "Subbarao died a Martyr's Death". Frontier. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
^ Chakrabarty, Bidyut; Kujur, Rajat Kumar (4 December 2009). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-23648-9.
^ Bhattacharjee, Sumit (31 July 2020). "Is Charu Majumdar's ideology relevant today?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ Singh, Bhawani; Shekhawat, Vibhuti Singh (2007). Confessional Terror: A Dateline to Death. Anamika Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7975-175-6.
^ Narendra, Madhurantakam (29 January 2017). "The Behrampur connect". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ Media, Ideology and Hegemony. BRILL. 11 September 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
^ "Boddapadu's Revolutionary Legacy". archive.cpiml.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "Fifty Years Of A Revolutionary Tree| Countercurrents". 22 December 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "'Acharya' is based on that book? Surprising". indiaherald.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ zedrjy1. "Acharya:ఆ పుస్తకం ఆధారంగా 'ఆచార్య'?ఆశ్చర్యంలో అభిమానులు". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (in Telugu). Retrieved 28 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Is this the inspiration behind Chiranjeevi's Acharya?". Cine Josh. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[1] "In Srikakulam, A Mother Relives Choices She Made 50 Years Ago – To Pick up a Gun, To Give up a Baby". The Wire. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[2] Prakash, Brahma (28 June 2019). Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909584-1.

[3] Shaw, Padmaja (4 September 2018). Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.

[:0-4] Chattopadhyay, Asok (2–8 December 2018). "Subbarao died a Martyr's Death". Frontier. Retrieved 3 August 2024.

[5] Chakrabarty, Bidyut; Kujur, Rajat Kumar (4 December 2009). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-23648-9.

[6] Bhattacharjee, Sumit (31 July 2020). "Is Charu Majumdar's ideology relevant today?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[7] Singh, Bhawani; Shekhawat, Vibhuti Singh (2007). Confessional Terror: A Dateline to Death. Anamika Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7975-175-6.

[8] Narendra, Madhurantakam (29 January 2017). "The Behrampur connect". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[9] Media, Ideology and Hegemony. BRILL. 11 September 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.

[10] "Boddapadu's Revolutionary Legacy". archive.cpiml.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[11] "Fifty Years Of A Revolutionary Tree| Countercurrents". 22 December 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[12] "'Acharya' is based on that book? Surprising". indiaherald.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[13] zedrjy1. "Acharya:ఆ పుస్తకం ఆధారంగా 'ఆచార్య'?ఆశ్చర్యంలో అభిమానులు". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (in Telugu). Retrieved 28 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[14] "Is this the inspiration behind Chiranjeevi's Acharya?". Cine Josh. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

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