Bobbili to Bonagiri un-vieled

Earlier it was already explained that people of Yellapu community/ telaga community was migrated from the Bobbili to various places of Nalgonda district, such as Mothkur, Bonagiri, phanigiri,parpelli, thimmapur. It was taken place during the war and after the war of Bobbili.

It is already known that some people has come to Albaka in the khammam district and later migrated to Jafargadh and then to Mothkur, Bonagiri, etc.During their stay at Albaka samsthan or at Veerabhadraram village, the yellapu kith and kin stayed at Gurrala family. Presently, those family members are living in the Khammam town.I will deal the story of that samthan seperately.

Worth discussable point is that whether there are traces of these both castes( atleast over a period of time)? I have enquired deeply and found that on the route of Albaka to jaffargadh, these people have been existing in many villages. Most of them thoroughly merged with Munnuru kapu and their traces are found with the surnames. Such villages include the Maripeda Bangla,khanapuram of warangal district,kakaravai on the border of three districts, koodali(on which koodala families got name).

It is also known that one branch of people were migrated to Mothkur from Jaffargarh. Interestingly, one branch has migrated to Warangal. The relatives of Mothkur families have been existing in Thimmapur, Phanigiri,kakaravai. Thimmapur families also have very good relation with Warangal and Nuzivid. Some of them are land lords. The famous surnames include Kandula, Daluvai, Nallaguntla, Edla, etc. exists in that village. The dushcherla,nallaguntla families have been existing in kakaravai.

The warangal branch includes kandula and Jinkala families. These people have superficial relations with the Yellapu community. Some matrimonial relations had been existing. Most of these people identify themselves with Hazaris.

The migration did not stop at mothkur. It is further continued to sunkishala. This assumption is because there are many people with sunki and sunkara as surname in yellapus. Ofcourse, many of them now migrated to karimnagar district and I found some of them at suryapet also.

In the end large number of people had migrated to the bhonagiri fort to work at this place. People of Bhonagiri had matrimonial relations with people of Mothkur. Over a period of time, there were large scale migrations took place from Bonagiri from all the communities, possibly due to drought conditions and loss of employment.Vaishyas out number others in migration from Bhongir, out of which mostly settled at suryapet.

Finally, there are migrations from all these places of Nalgonda district to Karimnagar district ,especially to elagandula fort and its near by villages.These migrations may be over a period of time rather than at once.Certainly some families would have taken lead.

One interesting fact is that there are migrations to elagandula from nalgonda district and similarly,there are people in suryapet ,who migrated from elagandula are of padmashali communities.It means the elagandula fort must be a textile centre in ancient days.on ruining of the skill and other factors, padmashalis might had migrated.

Tamil connections revealed of Yellapu community

Recently I went to tirunalvelvi district in Tamilnadu state, during my return from shabari yatra. I found most important breakthrough on learning the names of some villages of Avaraikulam, K.vellakulam, Rayapalayam during journey. I already know that these areas are dominantly populated with the kapu naidus, who are also called Nadars. The panchalakurichi, presently a town, which was ruled by veera pandya kattabomman, a naidu, is also in the same district.

The name of the Avaraikulam is established on the name of the family name of the Avari, which is a famous family name in Yellapu caste and also exists in Gurjara. It is quite common that the Avari is corrupted as avarai in tamil. It reveals the migration and establishment of settlement in this village.This village is populated with only Nadar community, who are dependent mostly on agriculture.

The Vellakulam may be also corrupt form of Vellapukulam. This may be named due to the presence of vellapu families. This also reveals the migration of Yellapu caste soldiers and their settlement in this area. It also attest that Yellapu community was very much part of the army of Vijayanagara. However, there are some evidences of re-migration of people of Yellapu community from Tamilnadu to Andhra Pradesh. These includes the family names of Chetty,Chennala, Kotte, Perisingala, Onna. It also reveals that the name of the caste was still vellapu during the migration period.

The village name of Rayapalayam reveals that this village was inhabited by the Raya or his relatives. This reveals that these families inhabited in this village. The geographical contiguity of above villages in a row on the road reveals that these migrations were taken place at the same time and during the vijayanagara period.

One other interesting village name around the avaraikulam is chettikulam.The chettis are also very much part of yellapu families.These families may be migrated from this area with yellapu families. It also confirms the relationship of yellapu families with business communities, yet again.

I also stayed for some time at sattnur in the virudhnagar district and met one telugu men who's ancestors migrated there about 200 more years ago.He is owner of medical shop and belongs to Bhimanathi family. He confirmed that Tirunalvelvi is inhabited by Nadars or kapu naidus and virudhnagar is inhabited by kammas.

To conclude that Yellapu community have been very much present in Tamilnadu also and migrated during the vijayanagara period on the work assigned by the king. Some people also came back.




References:
1.Personal tour notes of Author.
2.Wikipedia website information on Avaraikulam village.