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Tenneti Viswanatham

Congress leader of Visakhapatnam. In the 1920s he was among the Andhra leaders who pressed for complete independence, and in 1928 he was treasurer of the Andhra Provincial Independence League. He led the salt satyagraha in Visakhapatnam district in 1930, was banned from public work in 1932, sat on the Andhra Congress Working Committee in 1937 and was detained in the Quit India movement of 1942.

Tenneti Viswanatham was a Congress leader of Visakhapatnam.12 From the mid-1920s he was one of the Andhra Congressmen who demanded complete independence rather than dominion status.3 He led the salt satyagraha in his district in 1930.1 The source for this page is Sarojini Regani’s Highlights of the Freedom Movement in Andhra Pradesh.3

Complete independence, 1925–1928

In December 1925, and again at Eluru in 1926, the Andhra Provincial Congress passed resolutions moved by Bulusu Sambamurti to change the Congress constitution.4 Regani writes that the same group formed a committee to step up the demand for complete independence.3 She names Tenneti Viswanatham among its members, with Dr. B. Subramaniam, M. Tirumala Rao and Krovvidi Linga Raju.3 Most Andhra leaders at that time still favoured dominion status.3

The Andhra Provincial Independence League was founded on 19 December 1928.5 Sambamurti was its president, Dr. Subramanyam its secretary and Tenneti Viswanatham its treasurer.5

The salt satyagraha, 1930

Regani writes that Tenneti Viswanatham led the salt satyagraha in Visakhapatnam district.1 At Bheemunipatnam (then Bimlipatam) four volunteers made salt in April 1930.1

During the civil disobedience movement of 1932, the government used Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code against Congress leaders.2 At Visakhapatnam, Viswanatham was one of those served with orders forbidding them to further the movement.2

The Congress Working Committee and Quit India, 1937–1942

After the Congress won the elections of 1937, Viswanatham was a member of the Andhra Congress Working Committee.6 When the Quit India movement began in August 1942, he was among the Andhra leaders detained.7

Footnotes

  1. Regani, Highlights (1956), p. 119 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Regani, Highlights (1956), p. 130 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Sarojini Regani, Highlights of the Freedom Movement in Andhra Pradesh (1956), p. 103 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. Sarojini Regani, Highlights of the Freedom Movement in Andhra Pradesh (1956), p. 102 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  5. Regani, Highlights (1956), p. 111 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  6. Regani, Highlights (1956), p. 142 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  7. Regani, Highlights (1956), p. 148 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

References

Sources (1)
  1. Sarojini Regani, Highlights of the Freedom Movement in Andhra Pradesh (opens in a new tab), Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, 1956, pp. 102–103, 111, 119, 130, 142, 148. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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