DASHARATHI RANGACHARYA
Rangacharya Dasarathi born in 1928 in a small village in Telangana region of Hyderabad state ruled by the Nizam. From the beginning, he professed a great impatience with the autocratic rule of Nizam. Participated actively in the fight against the Nizam and once even was arrested and severely beaten by a police officer. He later went underground and continued their struggle.
Aside from Chillara Devullu (minor deities, 1969), at least one other novel of his Modugu Poolu (Flower of Fire, 1971) has the history of Telangana during the reign of Nizam of your fund. Both novels are firmly rooted in the history of Telangana, registered and unregistered. Given the feudal background and negligible literacy rate and Chillara Devullu , Modugu Poolu are two of the rarest big novels have come from Telangana.
Rangacharya these novels written in the dialect of Telangana Telugu against the opinion of the traditionalists. He wanted his novels to be easily understood by people and there was no other way to do that, except in writing in the language of the people. He did not become a novelist by accident. He wanted to be a novelist and carefully trained to be one. That perhaps explains why his style has a rare refinement and structure of his novels is almost perfect.
According to an admission Rangacharya has seen life in all its nakedness and not a particular ism. He looked at the man as man, with their strengths and weaknesses. May be that's why some of his characters in perfect condition often show signs of weakness and some of his most villains have an element of nobility and humanity lurking some where in his mental constitution.
As indicated above, Chillara Devullu was written in the context of rural life in Telangana during the last decade of the Nizam's government. During the two hundred years or so of the rule of Asaf Jhahi (Nizam) and the dynasty of the four hundred years of Muslim rule before the Telugu language and culture were very distorted and deformed in the region of Telangana. The Nizam had its representatives in all feudal villages.