Documented people

A Shodhganga thesis records that he was born in 1820 into a poor family in Chittoor district and came to Madras to earn a living, becoming rich in a short span through hard work and business ability. A devotee of the Vaishnavaite saint Ramanuja, he gave much of his wealth to charity, and the thesis calls him the pioneer among the several donors of the Arya Vysya community. His charity fund was founded in 1891 for the uplift of the backward classes, the propagation of Vaishnava religion, the advancement of education and helping the poor. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Telugu Wikipedia says he was born on 28 November 1904 at Warangal to Ratnayya and Jaggamma of a Vysya family and died on 26 August 1967. Besides building hospital wards and founding the Andhra Vidyabhivardhini school in 1944-45, he registered immovable property worth three lakh rupees held in his own RICE MILL in the name of the Andhra Vidyabhivardhini Sangam, and he founded the Arya Vysya Sangam, built a Vysya hostel and gave financial help to the Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - named + born to parents of a Vysya family]

Telugu Wikipedia, citing Eenadu and Namasthe Telangana, states he was born on 28 November 1904 at Warangal into a Vysya family and died on 26 August 1967. It states he built general wards and staff quarters at the Nizam's Sarkaria hospital (later renamed the Chanda Kanthaiah Memorial maternity hospital), and that in 1944 he joined the Kaloji brothers and others to fund the Andhra Vidyabhivardhini school, opened 29 November 1945. The same article states he founded an Arya Vysya Sangham, built a Vysya hostel and gave financial help to a Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple, and that the Nizam personally honoured him with the title 'Darje Awwal'. The Tejomurthulu chapter on Bhupathi Krishnamurthy calls Krishnamurthy his 'viyyankudu' (co-father-in-law), a tie this schema has no field for. [Recovered via the Telangana gap sweep; see gap_telangana.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Born 8 November 1918 at Srikakulam; a leading wholesale and retail cloth and medicine merchant of Srikakulam town, known for religious and charitable work including donating for the Kalinga Vysya kalyana mandapam. Died 5 January 2007. Translation of the quoted line: "Born in the Komati caste, a trading caste, he decided from childhood that earning money was not the main thing and did much spiritual and service work." Evidence depth PERSON: the caste word attaches to this individual by name.

A Business Standard 'Breakfast with BS' interview by Sanjaya Baru states plainly that he is a Komati, born into a family of gold merchants, and that he runs A SUGAR MILL in his home district of Srikakulam - an early composite mill producing sugar, ethanol and bagasse for co-generation, later sold to EID Parry. The same piece says that after his father's death he moved from the family's GOLD AND JUTE BUSINESSES in Srikakulam and worked briefly for A P Paper Mills at Rajahmundry, and that he later moved from agro-business into finance by buying shares in VYSYA BANK, of which he became CHAIRMAN, recalling the support he received from the Vysya community in three states. LIVING PERSON, included only because he is a major public figure with extensive published biography; no private detail is recorded here. [MERGED: absorbs a duplicate record; its Moneylife citation is retained alongside the Business Standard interview.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - named subject, direct statement] Recorded as active in 2010.

Described as the Arya Vysya leader of Arakalagud who established, on 24-03-1912, the mutual-aid society 'Sri Vasavamba Poshitha Anyonya Sahakara Sangha Niyamitha', which began business with Rs. 16,000 and was converted into a Sahakari Sangha on 06-09-1923 as Sri Vasavamba Co-operative Bank Ltd. A man of the same name, 'Sri A.V.Nanjunada Shetty', is listed as 'Founder' on the founders page of Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Co-operative Bank Ltd, Mysuru (established 1932); the two may be the same person, but no source states that. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - named + called an Arya Vysya leader] Recorded as active in 1912.

Congress politician who was municipal chairperson of Palakollu and, on 16 May 2009, defeated Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi in the Palakollu assembly constituency; MLA until 2014. Telugu Wikipedia gives no birth year. Translation of the quoted line: "She belongs to the Arya Vysya community." Evidence depth PERSON: the caste word attaches to this individual by name.

Son of the Vaisya Rami-setti and husband of Chandave, whose nishidhi (Jain memorial) the record commemorates. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Wife of Bimi-setti, son of the Vaisya Rami-setti; the stone near the Male-Mallikarjuna temple at Nidugal is her nishidhi (Jain memorial), connected with the gudda of Vrishabhasena-bhattaraka of the Mula-sangha. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Named as 'atana magam Chinnuppa', the member of the family who caused the image of the Parsva-tirthankara to be consecrated. The endowment is attached to the Trikuta-ratna-traya Santinatha temple at Halebid in the reign of the Hoysala Vira-Narasimha; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Called 'the best of the Vaisya-kula' and 'the excellent Vaisya Dama'; a senior merchant and expert in the examination of goods and animals, benefactor of both sects of the Nana Desi and of the chief Brahmans of Maleyala, honoured in the Hoysala kingdom as Damodara-Setti. He erected a Vishnu temple and set up Adi-Chenna-Kesava, Narasimha and Gopinatha in it, and bought umbali lands for its services with the assent of the Brahmans of Sarvvajnapura (Arakere). The record belongs to the reign of the Hoysala Somesvara at Kannanur; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Named in an inscription of about 1358 A.D. on a Garuda-kambha at Kandavara as 'of the Vaisya-kula, Nagara Devi-setti', whose son erected a dipamale-kambha in front of the god Varadaraja of Banasandapura. The son's name is lost in the record. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.] Recorded as active in 1358.

Named as 'atana tammam Govisetti' – younger brother – in the same clause. The endowment is attached to the Trikuta-ratna-traya Santinatha temple at Halebid in the reign of the Hoysala Vira-Narasimha; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Son of the pattana-svami Nokkayya-Setti, praised in a Jain inscription of Nagar taluk as 'Vaisya-vamsa-tilakam' – an ornament of the Vaisya lineage. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

One of two named members of the Vaisyavaniya-nagarattar residing in the great street of Mulavayil who in 1397 A.D. paid 21 pon to the managers of the Mulattanam temple at Avaniyam to endow a daily meal for every Brahman during the ninth festival. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.] Recorded as active in 1397.

Named as 'atana maga Karisetti' – his (Machalesetti's) son – in the same Jain endowment record. The endowment is attached to the Trikuta-ratna-traya Santinatha temple at Halebid in the reign of the Hoysala Vira-Narasimha; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Described among the great senior merchants and 'ornaments of the Vaisya-kula'; the record says that when the royal army came to Uchchangi he alone drove it back with his arrows and won the titles virada-permme, jasada-sompam and vairi-kolahalam, after which the Hoysala king Ballala bound on him the crown of a good warrior (subhata). Reign of the Hoysala Somesvara at Kannanur; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Styled 'vaisya-vamsa-tilaka' (ornament of the Vaisya lineage); the record names him as Machalesetti of/son of Konga-setti of Mambula. The endowment is attached to the Trikuta-ratna-traya Santinatha temple at Halebid in the reign of the Hoysala Vira-Narasimha; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Son of Raja-vallabha-Setti and described as of the Vaisya-kula. In 1108 A.D., under the Chalukya Tribhuvanamalla, he washed the feet of the thousand Brahmans of Bhattara-Posavur and granted land for a satra to feed 1,200 people at the five parva seasons. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.] Recorded as active in 1108.

A Komatiga of Belur recorded on the palanquin (negalu) of the Chennakesava temple at Belur as the donor of a pair of fittings; a second line on another negalu repeats 'Komatiga Mannari Siddana sevartha'. The record gives only a cyclic year (Sukla-samvatsara), no era date. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Named as 'atana tamma Padumisetti' – younger brother – in the same clause. The endowment is attached to the Trikuta-ratna-traya Santinatha temple at Halebid in the reign of the Hoysala Vira-Narasimha; no era year appears in the retrieved text. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Described in a 1398 A.D. Kolar-taluk inscription as 'a leading Vaisya merchant', father of the donor Periya-perumal-setti. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Recorded in a 1398 A.D. inscription at Sripati as the son of Poyyangilar Pammi-setti, a leading Vaisya merchant; he gave two kandugas of dry land near the southern outlet of the big tank to the god. The record closes 'This is the charity of Periya-perumal, son of Pammi-settiyar'. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.] Recorded as active in 1398.

Named in a Jain nishidhi record at Nidugal as 'Vaisyara Rami-setti', father of Bimi-setti. No era date is given in the record. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

Called as a witness before the Madras Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee and recorded in the oral evidence volume as 'M:.R.Ry. SRIKAKOIAPU VENKATA RAO Garu, Merchant, Cooanada' (OCR of Srikakolapu / Cocanada). He told the Committee he was importing stationery from England and doing general trade, that he kept his money in the newly opened Andhra Bank, and that Vaisyas lent on personal security while Marwaris would lend only against pledged jewels. Asked what the chief industries of Cocanada were he answered 'There is only the oil industry', that 'Most of the factory holders are Vaisyas', and when the Committee put to him 'Arc you a Vaisya by caste?' he answered 'Yes'. HE IS THEREFORE A NAMED, SELF-IDENTIFIED VAISYA MERCHANT TESTIFYING THAT THE OIL FACTORY HOLDERS OF COCANADA WERE OF HIS OWN COMMUNITY - the closest this whole gap came to putting a name next to the Andhra oil industry. NOTE: he identifies himself as a trader, NOT as an oil mill owner; do not record him as a mill founder. All quotes are raw OCR, errors included. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - self-anchored: the witness is named in the header and answers the caste question himself in the first person. This is the pronoun-anchored case - no name inside the quoted sentence, but the speaker is identified.] Recorded as active in 1930.

Described in a Shodhganga thesis on the Komati Chetties of Madras as a leading luminary of the Vysya community and one of the founding fathers of the Imperial Bank in Madras. Elsewhere the same thesis records that the Southern India Vysya Association's 1935 Silver Jubilee souvenir was published with a contribution from 'Vupputur Thiruvengadatham Chetty' - the same name in a different spelling. No dates are given. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

One of two named members of the Vaisyavaniya-nagarattar residing in the great street of Mulavayil who in 1397 A.D. paid 21 pon to the managers of the Mulattanam temple at Avaniyam to endow a daily meal for every Brahman during the ninth festival. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.] Recorded as active in 1397.

English Wikipedia describes him as a Jain Komati from a place near Vemulawada. Telugu Wikipedia states he was born in the Vanig (Vaishya) community, that historians place his life around 940 CE, and that he wrote the prosody treatise Kavijanasrayamu. Recorded as active in 940. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

The Telugu Wikipedia history of rationalist and humanist movements in Andhra Pradesh describes him as a Vaishya pandit of Palakollu (1764-1834), after whom artisans too fought for a share in priestly functions. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

A Madras building contractor who constructed many of the city's public buildings. At a reception for Vysya graduates he offered to build five large rooms for ten students in the proposed Vysya students' hostel, which prompted similar offers from others; the hostel's own history pays homage to his services. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Diwan Bahadur Thaticonda Namberumal Chetty built many of Madras's public buildings. The Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Devasthanam and Charities records that he volunteered to construct five large rooms for its Vysya students' hostel, and pays homage to his services to the Home. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Diwan Bahadur Thaticonda Namberumal Chetty (c. 1856 - 3 December 1925) was a Madras contractor and builder who erected the Government Museum, Victoria Public Hall, Connemara Library, Madras Law College and Bank of Madras buildings; he also imported timber from Rangoon and Moulmein and owned the Trivellore Light Railway. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

The 1921 Encyclopaedia of the Madras Presidency records that he was born in 1864 'of a noble Vysya family', matriculated in 1882, took his B.A. in 1891, joined the A.E.L.M. College Guntur as a teacher that year, was elected to the Guntur Municipal Council as early as 1897 and continued on it for nearly two decades, and served two and a half years as Chairman of the Municipal Council, Guntur. The entry says Vysyas predominate in the merchant class of Guntur and that in him they found a proper representative of their interests in the Municipality. NOTE FOR VERIFIERS: the printed surname reads 'Venkatareddi', which is unusual for the community, so the OCR should be checked against the page scan; but the entry says Vysya three separate times. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

A Bengaluru local-history account states he was born on 22 August 1868 at Chintalapalli near Kolar, became a leading trader in the weaving industry on Avenue Road, and built the Chinthalapalli Venkatamuniah Setty's Free Boarding Hostel and Choultry in 1911 after the newly founded Arya Vysya Mahasabha identified student accommodation as a need; he and his wife endowed it with Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000. NOTE a conflict in the sources: a Medium photo-essay instead says he hailed from a village in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. Families should resolve the birthplace before relying on it. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his group rather than to him by name.

Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty, born 1869 into the Calavala family, ran Messrs King and Company with his brother and endowed schools, a Sanskrit college, choultries, hospitals and feeding charities in Madras. The trust's own history records that he died at 'Calavala Gruham' in Govindappa Naicken Street on 5 August 1920, and that he was President of the Vysya Sangam and a Trustee of the Kanyaka Parameswari Devasthanam. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

The 1921 Encyclopaedia of the Madras Presidency records that he chaired the Reception Committee of the Madras Provincial Conference of 1917, calls him 'an ardent Home Ruler and a staunch Congressman', and lists him as Vice-President of the Madras Mahajana Sabha and the Madras Social Service League, Trustee of the Kanyakaparameswari Devasthanam and President of the Vysia Association, Madras. The same entry records that he and his brother Dewan Bahadur Ramanujam Chetty were sole proprietors of King and Company from 1912 to 1919. The Shodhganga thesis on the Komatis of Madras treats 'Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty' as a Komati philanthropist and names the DRBCCC charities after him. NOTE: the 1921 text is noisy OCR; 'Home Euler', 'Beception' and 'Bamanujam' are scanning errors for Home Ruler, Reception and Ramanujam. Recorded as active in 1917. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

The 1921 Encyclopaedia of the Madras Presidency records that the Government nominated him to a seat in the Nandyal Municipal Council in 1912 and that on expiry of that term he was elected by the voters, and that he was Chairman of the Arya Vaisya Mahajana Sabha, on which he spent his money and energy without stint. He combines municipal office with a stated Arya Vaisya Mahasabha chairmanship. The entry gives his birth year as 1874 and names his father as Chenchiah Chetty. NOTE: the OCR prints 'Cliairman', 'Nanclyal' and 'iSabba'. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

The 1921 Encyclopaedia of the Madras Presidency states outright that he 'was born in the Vysia caste on the 28th September 1877', of the Koratagiri Bhoopalam family of Masti in the Kolar District of Mysore. It records that he served the public for fifteen years as a member of the Taluq Board and the District Board, as non-official President of the Bench Civil Court at Palakode and as President of the Co-operative Credit Society there, and that he attended many Provincial Conferences and the sessions of the Indian National Congress held at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay as a Delegate from the Salem District. He donated a Vysia Dining Hall at the Madanapalle College Hostel and contributed to Vysia Conferences at Masulipatam, Vizagapatam, Cocanada and Guntur. His entry is doubly useful: an explicit caste statement plus a record of the Arya Vysya conference circuit. NOTE: the OCR prints 'Eoratagiri Bboopalam' and '28tb'. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

A Shodhganga thesis records that he was born in Madras in 1877 as the second son of Allathur Nambernal Chetty, one of the leading hardware and general merchants of his times; that he studied book-keeping and accountancy and set up his own hardware and glazed-tile business after his father's death; that he founded the Madras Hardware (Sundry) and Paint Merchants Association and became its president; and that he was conferred the title 'Rao Bahadur' in 1937. He was associated with the Sri Kanyaka Parameshwari Devasthanam Charities. His own charities maintained choultries at Madras, Vanamamalai and Srirangam, a free elementary school at Komaleeswaranpet and an orphanage in Madras. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

A Shodhganga thesis records that he was born in Madras in 1878, was a devout Vaishnavaite, and donated all his wealth to charitable purposes before his death in 1913; the charity in his name was founded in 1914 and built choultries at Nellore, Kondur and Alwarthirunagari. The same thesis records that the first donation of Rs. 300 to the newly formed Southern India Vysya Association in May 1905 came from him. [EVIDENCE DEPTH: PERSON - the quoted caste word attaches to this individual. Strongest level.]

The 1921 Encyclopaedia of the Madras Presidency says he 'belongs to an old Vaisya family of the place, which was engaged in trade for a long time', that he was born in 1878 and gave up his studies in 1892 after his father's death, and that he is a member of the Arya Vaisya Mahasabha 'which works for the welfare of the Vaisya community'. His public life is civic rather than political: member of the Town Hall and the Annadana Samajam, partner in the Godavari Steam Ferries. Included for the explicit community statement and the Mahasabha membership. NOTE: the printed text has a stray full stop in 'Vaisya,. family'. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Wikipedia describes him as an Indian independence activist who served in the Madras Legislative Council (elected 1926), led the Swaraj Party in that house during the Simon Commission's visit, was President of the Madras Corporation in 1925-26, and in 1934 defeated R. K. Shanmukham Chetty in the election to the Imperial Legislative Council. A Lok Sabha condolence reference quoted there records that he was a member of the former Central Assembly from 1934 to 1938 and, before that, Leader of the Opposition on behalf of the Congress in the Madras Legislative Assembly. The Shodhganga thesis on the Komatis of Madras independently calls him both a Komati and a Vysya politician, and his Corporation presidency is confirmed against Wikipedia's list of Madras Corporation presidents. Best-documented person in this set. Recorded as active in 1934. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Born 1887 at Alluru in Ongole taluk into a Komati family; became a leading commission agent and dealer in Madras from 1911 and was the first Congress president (mayor) of the Madras Corporation and a member of the Central Legislative Assembly. Died 2 November 1958 at Madras. Translation of the quoted line: "Venkatachalam Setty was born in 1887 in a Komati family at Alluru in Ongole taluk of what was then Guntur district." Evidence depth HOUSE: the caste word attaches to the family he or she was born into rather than to the person by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his house rather than to him by name.

A thesis on the left and national movements in the Madras Presidency records that he was born in 1890 at Kanigiri in Nellore district (now Prakasam district), went to America in 1912 for higher education, became a member of Lala Har Dayal's Ghadar Party and was arrested with other party members in Bangkok in 1915, took up social reform after his release from jail in 1919 starting with his own Vaisya caste, and was arrested again on 27 July 1940 under the Defence of India Rules. A second thesis calls him a liberal-minded Vysya intellectual and follower of Veeresalingam's reform campaign, names him a leader of the widow-marriage movement among Vaisyas, and cites his presidential speech at the Pradhama Arya Vaisya Yuvajana Maha Sabha, Madras, 1930. Two independent theses state his community. He wrote an autobiography, 'Nenu Na Desam'. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Born 1890 in a poor Vaishya family at Kanigiri, Prakasam district. Studied agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met Lala Har Dayal and helped found the Ghadar Party with Jatindranath Lahiri; arrested on his way home and held four and a half years in Indian jails, and spent eight of his 36 years of public life in prison. His best-known literary work is his autobiography Nenu Naa Desamu, a landmark of Telugu memoir writing. Husband of the poet Darisi Annapurnamma. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

A Bengaluru local-history account gives his dates as 1899-1967, says he became the ward of his elder sister Lakshmidevamma after their father's early death and helped her rebuild the CVMS hostel, which Diwan Sir Mirza Ismail inaugurated on 21 May 1930, and that during the Second World War he bought grain at inflated open-market prices and sold it cheaply from the fair price shop in the hostel building. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his group rather than to him by name.

Wikipedia records that he was born in 1901 at Padamatapalli in modern-day Prakasam district, resigned from the Great Indian Peninsular Railway in 1931 to join Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, fasted repeatedly between 1946 and 1948 for Dalit temple-entry rights in Nellore, and died on the night of 16 December 1952 during a fast unto death for a separate Andhra State. NOTE FOR VERIFIERS: the sources disagree on his birthplace - Wikipedia says Padamatapalli in Prakasam district, the Shodhganga thesis says Madras; the thesis also dates his death 15 December 1952. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Gandhian who died on 15 December 1952 after a fast unto death demanding a separate Andhra State, and is known as Amarajeevi. Born 16 March 1901. Translation of the quoted line: from the list of notable Arya Vysyas in the Telugu Wikipedia article "Arya Vysyas": "Potti Sriramulu - Amarajeevi, who gave up his life on a fast unto death for the formation of Andhra State." Evidence depth GROUP: the source places him or her inside a named set of Arya Vysyas rather than stating the community of the individual by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his group rather than to him by name.

Born 28 November 1904 at Warangal to Ratnayya and Jaggamma of a Vysya family; founded schools and hospitals at Warangal (the Chanda Kanthaiah Memorial College and maternity hospital), founded the Arya Vysya Sangham and built a Vysya hostel. Died 26 August 1967. Translation of the quoted line: "Chanda Kanthaiah was born on 28 November 1904 at Warangal to the couple Ratnayya and Jaggamma, who belonged to a Vysya family." Evidence depth HOUSE: the caste word attaches to the family he or she was born into rather than to the person by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his house rather than to him by name.

Telugu Wikipedia states she was born in 1907 in Ballari and died on 28 November 1931 aged 25, that girls of her Arya Vysya caste were not given the chance to study, that she took part in the Salt Satyagraha, and that she worked for inter-caste marriage, widow remarriage and the uplift of devadasis. It states she married the revolutionary freedom fighter Darisi Chenchayya. Her parents are named in the article as Rottagal Neelappa and Gauramma, and it states her father died in her childhood. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Telugu verse poet from Nivagam village, Kotturu mandal, Srikakulam district, born 30 June 1908 to Appanna and Annapurna. The article states plainly that he was of the Vaishya caste and of the Devakula gotra (Devakula being one of the listed Arya Vysya gotras). Self-taught in prosody, versed in both music and literature, and given the title Kavita Visarada. Works: Murchanadarsini (a treatise on music), Sri Ramayana Saramrutamu (kanda satakam, 1965), Srimad Bhagavata Saramrutamu (sisa kavyamu), Sri Krishna Paramatma Jatakamu. His death year is not recorded in the source. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Telugu Wikipedia states he was born on 30 July 1916 in Secunderabad in a Vaishya family, that his father was B. Veerannaiah and his wife Eswaramma, and that he founded the Praja Seva Sangham. He served as Mayor of Secunderabad, as an MLA and as a Rajya Sabha member, and died in 1970. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Freedom fighter and community organiser of Hyderabad who founded the Akhila Bharatha Vysya Yuvajana Sangham in 1939 and the first Vasavi Club at Hyderabad on 1 October 1961. The Vasavi Clubs International site calls him the 'Father of Vasavi Movement'. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Born 1919 at Tumrukota village, Rentachintala mandal, Guntur district, to Pandiri Muthayya and Rammamma in what the source calls an upper Vysya family; a rationalist and freedom fighter who led temple-entry and inter-dining reforms in Palnadu. Died 30 April 1964 at Rentachintala. Translation of the quoted line: "Theirs was an upper Vysya-caste family within the Hindu religion." Evidence depth HOUSE: the caste word attaches to the family he or she was born into rather than to the person by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his house rather than to him by name.

Telugu Wikipedia states he was born on 18 June 1921 into a prosperous farming family in Sanjamala village of the Banaganapalle samsthanam, Kurnool district, and died on 12 October 1993. It records that he took part in national-movement activity as a student at Nandyala, became a member of the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1948, represented Nandyala in the Lok Sabha, was Union Minister of State for Home and Parliamentary Affairs (1980-1984) and later Governor of Bihar and Karnataka, and that he founded the Vasavi educational institutions. His wife was Kanakamma. Telugu Wikipedia places him in the category Arya Vysyas. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Born 31 December 1921 at Ajjampura, Chikkamagaluru district, to S. Subbaraya Shetty and Gangamma; he followed the family's hereditary trading (vanika) occupation and served forty years as co-editor of the monthly 'Geeta Mitra'. He founded the Kala Seva Sangha and the Sri Vasavi Education Society, and wrote the play 'Vasavi Vijaya' on the community's tutelary goddess, staged 103 times across the state. The article, written when he was ninety, describes him as still active; no death date is recorded in the source. [Recovered via the Karnataka gap sweep; see gap_karnataka.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: UNCLASSIFIED - a human should decide whether this quote attaches to the person, their house, a group, or only an institution. Left unclassified rather than guessed at.] NOTE: A researcher could not determine whether this line describes the person, his house, or an institution - left unclassified rather than guessed.

The Telangana government publication 'Telangana Tejomurthulu' states he was born at Warangal on 21 February 1926 to Bhupathi Raghavulu and Bhramaramba, his forebears being of Mulkanoor, and that he died on 18 February 2016 and was cremated with full state honours. The same chapter records he was founder-president of The Mulkanoor Co-operative Bank (1970-74), founded the Telangana Praja Samithi in 1968, and served as president of the Warangal town Vysya Sangham from 1972 to 1977 and again as district president in 1987. The community evidence here is an office he held in a Vysya body, not a statement of his birth caste - treat it as strong but not conclusive. [Recovered via the Telangana gap sweep; see gap_telangana.json for that sweep's full working.] [EVIDENCE DEPTH: UNCLASSIFIED - a human should decide whether this quote attaches to the person, their house, a group, or only an institution. Left unclassified rather than guessed at.] NOTE: A researcher could not determine whether this line describes the person, his house, or an institution - left unclassified rather than guessed.

Telugu poet of Palamuru. Born 2 October 1929 at Bijinapalli to Badam Shambhaiah and Lakshmamma in a middle-class Vaishya family; lost his father in childhood and continued his studies while living in the Vaishya hostel in Hyderabad. Took part in the struggle against the Nizam and was jailed. Founded a library in his village and taught for four decades, retiring in 1987; chosen best teacher in 1985. Came to poetry through singing, and his first published piece was a wake-up song addressed to his caste-brothers, opening Vasavi kumarulu rarandi. Works: Geyamala, Pagadala Mala, Gandhi Patham, Navya Jagattu, Yashovallari, Dabbu Nee Viluventa, Champakotpala Sourabham, Kalama Nee Balamenta, and a Telugu dvipada rendering of the Hanuman Chalisa dedicated in 1988 to Vaishyaratna Kothuri Seetayya Gupta. Died 24 July 2008. NOTE: This source file did not record whether the line describes the person, his house or an institution, so it is not counted as person-level evidence.

Born 2 October 1929 at Bijinapalli to Badam Shambhaiah and Lakshmamma in a middle-class Vysya family; lost his father in childhood and studied while living in the Vysya hostel in Hyderabad; took part in the struggle against the Nizam and was jailed; taught for four decades and founded a library in his village. Died 24 July 2008. Translation of the quoted line: "Born in a middle-class Vysya family, Gupta lost his father in childhood and faced hardships." Evidence depth HOUSE: the caste word attaches to the family he or she was born into rather than to the person by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his house rather than to him by name.

Born 1930 at Kornepadu, Guntur district; founded the Crane companies in 1952, which grew into a group worth hundreds of crores. Built temples and free-meal choultries. Died 24 March 2017 at Guntur. Translation of the quoted line: the article carries the category "Arya Vysyas" and the community article lists him as "Grandhi Subba Rao - noted businessman, donor, spiritualist. Well known as head of the Crane companies that make Crane betel-nut powder." Evidence depth GROUP: the source places him or her inside a named set of Arya Vysyas rather than stating the community of the individual by name. NOTE: The caste word attaches to his group rather than to him by name.