The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2) of land in what is now western New York State from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for $1,000,000 (£300,000), to be paid in three annual installments, and the pre-emptive right to the title on the land from the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy for $5000 (£12,500). A syndicate formed by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham bought preemptive rights to 6,000,000-acre (24,000 km2) in New York, west of Seneca Lake between Lake Ontario and the Pennsylvania border, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy , popularly known as YSR, was a two-time Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009.
Reddy is a caste that originated in India, predominantly settled in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They are classified as a forward caste.
Deshmukh or Dēśamukh is a historical title conferred to the rulers of a Dēśamukhi. Deshmukh is the greatest position given to a landlord followed by Patil. 1 Deshmukh equals 32 Patil. It is also a surname native to the Indian state of Maharashtra, but it is also prevalent in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Paritala Ravindra, popularly known as Paritala Ravi, was a politician in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Indra is a Telugu language action film directed by B. Gopal. It stars Chiranjeevi, Arti Agarwal and Sonali Bendre. The film was released on 24 July 2002 and opened to highly positive reviews from critics as well as from the audience. This film gave Chiranjeevi an exponential fan base.Later it was dubbed into Hindi and Tamil as Indra - The Tiger and Indran respectively. The film was remade in Bengali as Dada and Bangladeshi as Sultan by Manna.
Omandur Ramasamy Reddiyar was an Indian freedom-fighter and politician of the Indian National Congress. He served as the Premier of Madras Presidency from 23 March 1947 to 6 April 1949..
The Telangana Rebellion was a peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region and, later, the princely state of Hyderabad, between 1946 and 1951.
Pallikoodam is a Tamil language feature film directed and cinematographed by Thangar Bachchan. Narain, Sneha, Sriya Reddy, Seeman and the director himself form the cast. Narain plays Vetrivel, a collector, while Sriya Reddy is a nurse, Sneha is a teacher named Kokila and Seeman plays Muthu. The film deals with four different periods – 1978, 1983, 1991 and 2004.
The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement, was a voluntary land reform movement in India, started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village which is now in Telangana, India and known as Bhoodan Pochampally.
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy was a son of an Indian former Polygar. He was at the heart of a rebellion against the British East India Company (EIC) in 1846, when 5000 peasants rose up in Kurnool district, then in Madras Presidency and now a part of the state of Andhra Pradesh. They were protesting British changes to the traditional agrarian system. Those changes, which included the introduction of the ryotwari system and other attempts to maximise revenue, had deprived village headmen and other higher-status people of their role as revenue collectors and position as landholders, while also impacting on lower-status cultivators by depleting their crops and leaving them impoverished.
Praja Rajyam Party was a regional political party in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, founded by Telugu cinema actor Chiranjeevi on 26 August 2008. On 6 February 2011, it was officially announced that the party would be merging into the Indian National Congress. As announced, it was formally merged with Indian National Congress in August 2011.
Ponaka Kanakamma (1892–1963) was a social worker, activist and freedom fighter, imprisoned over a year, as a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, in India.
She founded Sri Kasturidevi Vidyalam, a large school for girls in Nellore.
Reddy Row, also known as Venkata Row, was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1817 to 1821 and 1843 to 1845.
Vedire Ramachandra Reddy was, in 1951, the first landlord to donate land to the poor as part of the Bhoodan movement in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Yaga Venugopal Reddy, better known as Y. V. Reddy, is an Indian economist and a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1964 batch belonging to Andhra Pradesh cadre. Reddy served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 6 September 2003 until 5 September 2008.
Poola Rangadu is a Telugu comedy film written and directed by Veerabhadram starring Sunil and Isha Chawla in lead roles. Atchi Reddy has produced the film under Max India banner. Anoop Rubens scored the music and Prasad Murella was the cinematographer..
Konda Vishweshwar Reddy is an Engineer, Entrepreneur, Politician and an elected Member of Parliament from Chevella, Telangana. He won the 2014 Indian general election being a Telangana Rashtra Samithi candidate. He joined the Indian National Congress in 2018. He is the Senior Leader of Congress. He is the grandson of Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy after whom the district Ranga Reddy was named.
Chennamaneni Rajeshwara Rao was an Indian communist leader and politician from the state of Telangana. Between 1957 and 2004 he got elected six times to the State Legislative Assembly. Rajeshwara Rao was active in the Quit India Movement and the struggle against the Nizam's rule of Hyderabad. During the resistance he spend 5 years underground and in jail before entering electoral politics following the integration of Hyderabad state into the Indian Union. He was a long-time member of the Communist Party of India and in 1999 joined the Telugu Desam Party. He retired from active politics in 2009.
Patlolla Indra Reddy (1954-2000) was a four-term member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, former Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh state and founder of Jai Telangana Party.Born on October 4, 1954 at Kowkuntla village in Chevella Mandal to a poor farming family, Reddy studied MA and LLB in Osmania University. He was the elected Law College Student Union President. Indra Reddy was arrested during the emergency for 18 months. After his release he was elected as sarpanch of his village before he joined the TDP in 1985. Reddy was elected to the State Assembly four times. He was first elected on a Telugu Desam Party ticket in 1985 and served as a minister for education and then a minister for labour and employment in the N T Rama Rao Cabinet.He was re-elected on a TDP ticket in 1989 and 1994. He was minister for home, jails and fire services in the NTR cabinet of 1994-95.During the August 1995 crisis in the TDP, when N T Rama Rao was toppled by his son-in-law N Chandrababu Naidu in a party and family coup, Indra Reddy remained with NTR. After NTR's death in January 1996, Reddy joined Lakshmi Parvathi's party but soon fell out with her and joined the Congress. He was re-elected to the assembly in the September 1999 poll on a Congress ticket.
