::‘On July 9, Reddys and Telagas formed into a committee and decided to enforce a social boycott of the Dalits (Malas).
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The next biggest community was that of the Malas, which accounted for a quarter of the village’s population.
At the time of his father’s death, G.V. Chalam was only eight years old.He was brought up by his paternal uncle, Guduru Ramachandra Rao – a Gandhian and a pioneer social reformer who convened the first Adi Andhra Mahajana Sabha in 1917 for the emancipation of the so-called ‘untouchable’ castes, Malas and Madigas of Andhra Pradesh (now known as Dalits).
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