Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma

Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma was an Indian historian, who worked at the Andhra University. He was born at Miniminchilipadu Agraharam, a village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh to Bhadrayya and Nagamma. Somasekhara Sarma couldn’t continue his education beyond matriculation due to poverty. He started his career as a menial employee in Kannemera Library in Madras where he could have interactions with intellectuals like Lakshmanrao Komarraju and Chilukuri Veerabhadra Rao. Then he went to Rajahmundry to work for Deshamata, published by Chilakamarthi Lakshminarasimham. He worked for Andhra Patrika magazine from 1924 to 1940. He taught research in history at Andhra University from 1940 to 1946.

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