meaning of REDDY
badam
name...thankyou.. from badham...
badam
Ravi Kumar
some surnames point to a particular village.. Some surnames have come
thro' generations used by particular castes..
Coming to REDDY.. I do not know exactly whether there was a village
called reddy or it has been passed on.. usually many REDDY were
landlords..
I will try to find info.. about this.. Good point to investigate (
Thanks..)
Ravi
Vijayakumar Bekkem
of people from south India, Andhra Pradesh state. They form about 1 - 6% of
the state population. I don't think it has any specific meaning. Think of it
like "Smith" or some such western equivalent.
It is not a middle name or last name, since most Indian names do not match
the western format of First Middle and Last name. It is usually the last
part of the name when written on official docs in India. Some of them use it
as a middle name when they migrate to US or other western countries.
In recent history the village head man was called a Reddy, not because the
head man's job was call Reddy but because for a long time village head men
were Reddys. So when someone who did not belong to the Reddy clan became the
village head man, they were called Reddy though the were really not a Reddy.
confusing eh?
Reddys are the decendants of the Reddy kings who ruled large parts of
present day Rayalaseema, Telangana etc. in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The
Reddy dynasty ruled from around the Kurnool area of present day Andhra
Pradesh. There is a huge fort in Kurnool town which stands to this day
called "Konda Reddy Buruju" as a testament to the Reddy rulers of the past.
The Reddy empire fell after numerous wars, with the rise of the Vijayanagar
empire, one of its most famous kings being Sri Krishna Deva Rayalu.
In present day India and Andhra Pradesh, Reddys have made significant
contribution to both the state and the nation. They are Doctors, Engineers,
Administrators, Industrialists, Businessmen, Captains of the Industry,
Scientists, Polititions, a whole lot of the states previous chief
ministers, an Ex-President of India, numerous Members of Parliament, Members
of the State Legislative Assembly, Policemen etc etc.... The list goes on
and on. For a complete history of the Reddys please see any authoritative
history book on the State of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Didn't mean to write a thesis on this, but hope this helps.
- Vijay Reddy Bekkem.
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ramakrishna
in Maharastra.
siv...@my-deja.com
Me too dont know the exact meaning or how it came into existence, but
I can say its originally the name of a farming community who own large
amounts of lands.
> the western format of First Middle and Last name. It is usually the
last
> part of the name when written on official docs in India.
Rather, its the caste/community name
> In recent history the village head man was called a Reddy, not because
the
> head man's job was call Reddy but because for a long time village head
men
> were Reddys.
I dont think this is true.
In the history of south India (for that matter any part of the world)
most of the times the power was in the hands of wealthy/rich people.
The reddy community is a farming community, which owns lands and is
rich.
And at a time it was their turn to rule some part of the andhra.
If you study the history of andhrapradesh, u can also find the velama
kings, who are now considered as a part/closely related to "kaapu/Naidu"
community. ( and just for the sake of info. some subsects of this
community are treated as backward)
And there were Kamma (otherwise called chowdari) kingdoms
So its not that the village head is reddy but the wealthy/rich people
ruled the land. And in the annals of andhra there were reddy's who ruled
the land. (Again just for info, Tenali Rama krishna compares these kings
in one of his writings: not to offend u guys there, but he derides the
reddy kings)
> village head man, they were called Reddy though the were really not a
Reddy.
> confusing eh?
As I said abv, its not by ruling but by castname.
> Reddys are the decendants of the Reddy kings who ruled large parts of
> present day Rayalaseema, Telangana etc. in the state of Andhra
Pradesh.
I'd like to say, some of the reddy community ruled andhra for some time
> In present day India and Andhra Pradesh, Reddys have made significant
> contribution to both the state and the nation. They are Doctors,
Engineers,
> Administrators, Industrialists, Businessmen, Captains of the Industry,
> Scientists, Polititions, a whole lot of the states previous chief
> ministers, an Ex-President of India, numerous Members of Parliament,
Members
> of the State Legislative Assembly, Policemen etc etc.... The list goes
on
> and on. For a complete history of the Reddys please see any
authoritative
> history book on the State of Andhra Pradesh, India.
>
> Didn't mean to write a thesis on this, but hope this helps.
>
> - Vijay Reddy Bekkem.
:-) Yep that may be true. Its a community which is a bit forward
compaered to other castes in andhra.
will get back to u with exact meaning of the word.
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Before you buy.
Dakshin Gandikota
>
> In article <03f8e50300505...@msn.com>,
> "Vijayakumar Bekkem" <vijay_...@email.msn.com> wrote:
> > I don't think it has any specific meaning.
>
> Me too dont know the exact meaning or how it came into existence, but
> I can say its originally the name of a farming community who own large
> amounts of lands.
You ask a 'singh' what that means, they are confused too! Then they may
talk about Khalisthan!! Reddy for all practical purposes is an 'active,
alive, kicking, hypocratical, lucrative and viable' caste name. One can
search for needle of a reddy in a haystack of equally eminent people,
and make him/her look like the random pick for a million$ prize.
Unfortunately, the same truth applies to others viz. na(y)i(a)du, rao(u)
and s(h)astr(y)i, which are limited in numbers, yet reddy rules the
roost.
siv...@my-deja.com
These rashtra kuta's ruled andhra for quite some time.
And the word rashtra kuta transformed into reddy.
Here's how it transformed:
Rashtra kuta -> Rattakuda -> rattadi -> reddi/reddy
-Siva
In article <03f8e50300505...@msn.com>,
"Vijayakumar Bekkem" <vijay_...@email.msn.com> wrote:
> "Reddy" also spelt as "Reddi". It is part of the name of a particular
group
>
> badam wrote in message <3821...@news.bezeqint.net>...
> >
> >badam <ba...@bezeqint.net> wrote in message news:...
> > > please can anybody explain me the meaning of REDDY as middle
> > > name...thankyou.. from badham...
> > >
srinivas reddy
Reddy's are one of the powerful groups of india with a real great
talent, energy,resources.
They are the real men of Andhra Pradesh,
Chowdaries are nothing,they are stupids, they just don't know
anything, they are uncivilized people of andhra,
Reddy's are posh,civilized people of andhra
siv...@my-deja.com wrote:
>In article <03f8e50300505...@msn.com>,> "Vijayakumar Bekkem" <vijay_...@email.msn.com> wrote:
> > I don't think it has any specific meaning.
>
>
>Me too dont know the exact meaning or how it came into existence, but
>I can say its originally the name of a farming community who own large
>amounts of lands.
>
>
vishnu
the group..
vishnu
srinivas reddy <srre...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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badam
srinivas reddy <srre...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3830...@www2.iaol.com...
>
> Reddy's are one of the powerful groups of india with a real great
> talent, energy,resources.
> They are the real men of Andhra Pradesh,
> Chowdaries are nothing,they are stupids, they just don't know
> anything, they are uncivilized people of andhra,
> Reddy's are posh,civilized people of andhra
>
badam
reference book)
1. REDDI : (Kapu, Suryavansia) An ethnic group inhabiting an area of the
Eastern Ghats extending
from the Mackund and Goperu Rivers south to the delta plain between the
Godavari and Krishna
rivers. They hill people who live in three types of settlements: hill,
riverside, and those of the
Andhraplains. The dominant language is Telugu. They are slash and burn
agriculturist whose
deit consists mainly of garden vegetables and the meat of the domesticated
animals.
2. KONDA REDDI : An ethnic group, numbering about 100,000 living in Andhra
Pradesh ,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in India. They speak Telugu, a language of the
Dravidian group.
A Hindu grouping, Konda Reddi adhere mainly to Shaivism (the worship of
Shiva) but
also revere a variety of other deities. They are basically agriculturists,
and practice PODU
cultivation.
(I have copied exactly what is written in the above mentioned Encyclopedia)
from BADDAM.......November 17, 1999...
>>>>{0}<<<<
KNaray6684
>1. REDDI : (Kapu, Suryavansia) An ethnic group inhabiting an area of the
>Eastern Ghats extending
>from the Mackund and Goperu Rivers south to the delta plain between the
>Godavari and Krishna
>rivers. They hill people who live in three types of settlements: hill,
>riverside, and those of the
>Andhraplains. The dominant language is Telugu. They are slash and burn
>agriculturist whose
>deit consists mainly of garden vegetables and the meat of the domesticated
>animals.
Seeing this query, I tried to find the etymological foundations of this word.
Encyclopedia's are deficient because they reflect popular usage rather than the
etymology.
In Sanskrit rAya means a wealthy person. So a reddy rAya is a wealthy person of
the reddy caste. That essentially throws out this wealthy/kingly stuff out of
the window.
But in Sanskrit reD (pronounced reD with a halanta on the D) is a dhaatu which
means to be angry or become angry. If we can now construct a taddhita pratyaya
from reD, then we can show that an angry clan is called the Reddy. And that
construction is becoming difficult with my languistic tools. I am still
exploring and trying to get a closer etymological construction.
In history, they were not rich. Actually many of them acquired their land
holdings through land grab and illegal ownership of the leased land of the
kings when their kingdoms fell. Porperty distribution and land rights in
Krishna devaraya times, for which there are edicts, will open many
eyes to the usurping of land by the landed communities of today.
...kt
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These are just opinions. Ask not of whose they are, but ask of what they are!
badam
> reference book)
the
> Eastern Ghats extending
> from the Mackund and Goperu Rivers south to the delta plain between the
> Godavari and Krishna
> rivers. They hill people who live in three types of settlements: hill,
> riverside, and those of the
> Andhraplains. The dominant language is Telugu. They are slash and burn
> agriculturist whose
> deit consists mainly of garden vegetables and the meat of the domesticated
> animals.
>
badam
Dakshin Gandikota
By what grammatical/evolutionary rules? Even ka-cha-ta-tha-pa to
ga-ja-Da-da-ba mapping is imperfect. In sum, the above scheme is
implausible. If people kept their dynasty name in addition to a village
name or sir/last name over the centuries, then
all of us claiming telugu roots would be some kind of royals just by
basic inference upon a gradually increasing native population in andhra
pradesh.