Where is Village Dhamarla located in Andhara Pradesh?

Question

There are lot of scholars from Andhra Pradesh. Dhamarla Venkatagiri Nayak even ruled Chenna patnam during 17th century as can be seen from Google search.

Answer 1

hey i'm from hyderabad, andhra pradesh. i checked google maps and it says there isnt any dharmala village but there is a dharmala house in the outskirts of hyderabad  

Answer 2

Surnames of Telugu speaking people (first part of the name) are mostly the village or place names.

'Dhamarla', 'Damarla' and 'Damerla' are same. It is customary for Tamil speaking people to put an 'h' to denote soft consonent. 'Dha' as per this convention of transliteration that rhymes with 'that' is different from the hard consonent 'Da' rhyming with 'Data'. I have heard of a village of that name, 'Damerla' in Guntur district (boundaries delineated during Madras presidency times). I think it must have been submerged by the Nagarjuna sagar waters. A famous painter 'Damerla Ramachandra Rao' was there whose art gallery is in Raja mundry now.

After dismemberment (dismantling) of Vijayanagara Empire (Talikota war, 26.1.1565) the individual Nayakas holding a fort each, controlling the surrounding country became independent rulers on their own, respecting each others territories as they were colleagues once. Most famous were - Penugonda, Gooty (Gut`ti), Chandragiri. Chandragiri & fort are located a few miles from Tirupati town. Later they proclaimed themselves as kings. At that time the region of present Chennai (Chennapatnam, Madras) was part of Chandragiri kingdom. The king Peda Venkata Nayaka leased (1639) the site on which the English built (1640) the present-day Fort Saint George. Probably, Damerla Venkatapathy Nayak as king of Vandavasi (presently 'Wandiwash') was a vassal of Chandragiri.

Incidentally the local fishing hamlet on present site of Ft. St. George, was headed by a chief whose name was 'Mutharasu Chennappa'. After his surname the new English town was called 'Madarasu' by the local Telugus (Tamils came much later with the railway network when the employment opportunities grew fast, just as in the case of Bengaluru when it became British town), while the English  called it George Town (GT). We heard it called GT, as children in Madras in 1950s. Some used to also call the whole city as 'Chennapatnam' in the fashion of most port towns of Coromandal coast (Nagapattinam, Krishnapatnam, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam & Bheemunipatnam) like my grandfather did.