Volume editors
Volga is a Telugu novelist, poet and literary critic with over fifty books to her credit. A feminist writer, she received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2015 for her collection of short stories Vimuktha.
Kalpana Kannabiran, sociologist and legal scholar, has published widely in the field of interdisciplinary law, including law and literature. She is currently Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, India.

Translator
Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist novelist, poet and translator who taught English for close to three decades. Among her translations are My Life Is a Song: Gaddar’s Anthems for the Revolution (2021) and Akkineni Kutumba Rao’s Softly Dies a Lake (2020).

Series editor
G.N. Devy, former Professor of English at the M.S. University of Baroda, founded the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (Baroda) and the Adivasi Academy (Tejgadh). He is known for helming the monumental People’s Linguistic Survey of India and has received several awards and honours, including the Padma Shri.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editors’ Note

Tikkana
Manchena
Annamacharya
Atukuri Molla
Potana
Dhurjati
Vemana
Muddupalani
Kandukuri Veeresalingam
Gurajada Appa Rao
Bhandaru Acchamamba
Unnava Lakshminarayana
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy
Bhagya Reddy Varma
Sripada Subramania Sastri
Garimella Satyanarayana
Chalam
Basavaraju Apparao
Gurram Jashuva
Nanduri Venkata Subbarao
Kanuparti Varalakshmamma
Suravaram Pratapa Reddy
Devulapalli Krishna Sastri
Folk Song
Kusuma Dharmanna
Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao
Sri Sri
Tripuraneni Gopichand
Boyi Bhimanna
Kaloji Narayan Rao
Chaganti Somayajulu
Vattikota Alwaruswamy
Bucchi Babu
Potlapalli Rama Rao
Kanchanapalli Chinavenkataramarao
Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak
Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastri
Kalipatnam Ramarao
Arudra
Aluri Bairagi
Dasarathi Krishnamacharyulu
Dasarathi Rangacharyulu
Madhurantakam Rajaram
C. Narayana Reddy
Sivasagar
Vasireddy Seetha Devi
Kolakaluri Enoch
Kethu Viswanatha Reddy
Bojja Tarakam
P. Sathyavathi
Varavara Rao
K. Siva Reddy
Singamaneni Narayana
Cherabandaraju
Akkineni Kutumba Rao
Ammangi Venugopal
Rachapalem Chandrasekhara Reddy
N. Gopi
B.S. Ramulu
Gaddar
Devipriya
Chilukuri Devaputra
K.N.Y. Patanjali
Katti Padma Rao
Papineni Siva Sankar
Ganteda Gowru Naidu
Nandini Siddha Reddy
Kondepudi Nirmala
V. Pratima
Mandarapu Hymavathi
Anisetti Rajitha
Sikhamani
Vimala
Yakoob
Yendluri Sudhakar
Vadrevu China Veerabhadrudu
Tripuraneni Srinivas
Pydi Theresh Babu
Joopaka Subadra
Madduri Nagesh Babu
Sitaram
Afsar
Goreti Venkanna
Challapalli Swaroopa Rani
Jajula Gowri
Mohammad Khadeer Babu
Khaja
M.M. Vinodini
Shahjahana