Kshatriya's Raju's use Raju or Varma in the telugu regions and Deo in the Orissa regions as an agnomen for their last name. Varma in Sanskrit means Armor, Protection and Deo in Sanskrit means God or Lord. In Telugu tradition, the family name is written first followed by the given name and then the caste title. For example Alluri Sita Rama Raju, a prominent freedom fighter in the mid 19th Century, is interpreted as Sita Rama of the Alluri family and Raju for Kshatriya caste . Other community members were also using Raju or Varma with their names . Rajus are the only community who got Kshatriya status . Raju or RAZU ( According to'Castes and Tribes of SouthernIndia' book by Thurston) is a Forward caste in the telugu region's, India. They are also known as Kshatriya's. They wear Rishi Gotras viz. Vashishta, Dhananjaya, Koundinya and kashyapa. If you look at the Telugu country history ( i.emodern day Andhra Pradesh) You will notice Raju rule.These Rajus are of 4 gothras mentioned above and each gotra,those who wear/possess these gothras are direct discendents of 4 Royal Families of telugu states viz. Parchchedis( Vashishta Gotra people,Madhava varma who ruled Bezwada ( Now Vijayawada) belong to this Gotra, Vijayanagaram Rulers 'Pusapatis', Ramachandrapuram (near Kakinada) Zamindaris, Peddapuram kings, etc. belong to this Clan). Coming to Dhananjaya Gothra people who are Discendents of "Kota'' ( Present day Amaravati in Guntur district) Kings. ( Natavati Rudraraju who had alliance with Kakatiya Kings too belong to this Gotra. Natavati is present day Nandigama in Krishna District of Andhar Pradesh). Tuni Zamindars of 'Dantuluri' surname, Nallaparaju zamindars etc. belong to this Clan. Another important Clan is 'Kakatiya" Kingdom which ruled entire Andhra Pradesh and telangana from warangal. Kasyapa Gotra Rajus belong to this Clan. Mandapati Rulers of Ongole, Tanuku original Zamindars of Uppalapati surname etc. belong to this clan. The fouth one is "varnata" Clan which ruled Karnataka. Koundinyasa is their Gotra. Mogaltur Zamindars (Kalidindi surname etc. belong to this clan. You will find Rajus in Rajapalayam of Tamilnadu also who migrated to south along with Vishwanatha Nayaka's army. Now in TamilNadu they are knowns as Rajas. Raju's constitute only 1 to 2 % of Population in telugu region's,but they transformed industrilization very well.
They are prominent in the fields of pharma , medical , Agriculture, horticulture, Aquaculture farming, Information Technology, Realestate and construction, films etc.
They are likely to do very well in the emerging field of higher education (setting up colleges and universities) and Bio Technology too. one of the notable prominent raju was " ALLURI SITARAMARAJU ".
After the declaration of Independence in India, Zamindari system was abolished. During that time many Raju Zamindars donated their property's and land liberally for the upliftment of poor and Education. Vizianagaram is the oldest and largest Hindu Princely State of Andhrapradesh (Samsthanam). Maharaja PVG Raju donated his Royal State to Republic of India. He also donated enormous wealth, Khazana, Land, Properties, Palaces to Korukonda Sainik school, Andhra University, Mansas Trust and to poor and needy for schools, colleges and hospitals,and there are so many rajus who had donated their property's to poor people for their development . Most of Rajus are doing well in Education, Information Technology,Bio-technology and also in other fields too .
ALLURI SITARAMA RAJU
( FREEDOM FIGHTER)
"Manyam Veerudu"
("Hero of the Jungle")
"Manyam Veerudu"
("Hero of the Jungle")
RAJU'S ( Telugu Kshatriya's ) kingdom's :
• Charmahal : Kalidindi ( Koundinya Gothra)
• Golugonda : Bhupathiraju clan ( Dhananjaya Gothra)
• Karvetinagar ( Chittoor District near Tirupati)
• Kota Uratla-Thangedu ( East Godavari) : Saagi / Sagi ( Vashishta Gothra)
• Mogalthur (West Godavari) : Kalidindi (Kaundiyasa Gothra) clan
• Ongole : Mandapati ( Kashyapa Gothra)
• Padmanabham : Saagi/ Sagi clan (Vashshta Gothra)
• Peddapuram : Vatsavayi / Vatsavaya ( Vashishta Gothra)
• Rajamundry : Pusapati /Poospati (Vashishta Gothra)
• Ramachandrapuram ( Kota Ramachandra Puram) : Kakarlapudi ( Vashishta Gothra)
• Tanuku ( West Godavari) : Uppalapati ( Kasyapa gothra )
• TUNI , East Godavari : Dantuluri ( Dhananjaya Gothra)
• Vizianagaram : Pusapati / Poosapti ( Vashishta Gothra)
• Thettu ( Nellore district) : Vezendla/ Vejella ( Vashishta Gothra)
• Thoyyeru ,Koppuram : Nallaparaju ( Dhananjaya gothra)
Nizam/Colonial Period:
The Sultans, Nizams and British all employed Rajus as the governors of estates with the responsibility of collecting taxes. In 1857 the British broke up the estates and realigned the bigger brigands into Princely states and the lesser ones as Zamindars or Jagirdars. These zamindars were abolished after the formation of the Indian Union in 1947.
Zamindars of Rajus :
Zamindars and the families that controlled them in parenthesis.
Andhra
Anegundi (Narapathi)
Ankapalle (Pusapadi)
Golconda (Bhupathiraju)
Chemudu (Vyricharla)
Charmahal (Kalidindi)
Chintalapalli (Alluri)
Darlapudi (Chintalapati)
Dimili (Pusapati)
Vijayawada (Bejawada Madhava Varma)
Eluru (Thirupathiraju)
Gandhavaram (Pakalapati)
Godi (Rudraraju)
Godicharla (Vatsavai)
Godilanka (Rudraraju)
Karvetinagar
Kasipuram (Pusapati)
Kumili (Pusapati)
Kuppili (Jampana)
Kottakota (Pinnamaraju)
Kota Uratla (Raja Sagi)
Kondakirla (Sagi)
Kurupam (Vyricharla)
Korukonda (Thirupathiraju)
Kottur (Sagi)
Koppuram (Nallaparaju)
Madgole (Chintalapati) Claim descent from Matsya desa.
Merangi (Satrucharla)
Mogalthur (Kalidindi)
Moida (Penumatsa)
Nakkapilli (Kakarlapudi)
Peddapuram (Vatsavai)
Puttur(Madiraju)
Rajamundry (Pusapati)
Ramachandrapuram Kota royal family SRK Raja Gopal Narasa Raju.
Rayavaram (Sagi)
Rajala (Sagi)
Rajapalayam(Valivarthi)
Razole (Kanumuri)
Revidi(Bhupathiraju)
Padmanabham(Raja Sagi)
Srirampuram (Kakarlapudi)
Salur (Satrucharla)
Thangedu (Raja Sagi)
Tuni (Vatsavai)
Uppada (Pusapati)
Vemalapudi (Sagi)
Velchur Kodur (Sagi)
Vizianagaram (Pusapati)
pedamajjipalem (siruvuri)
Wurutla (Dantuluri)
Jeypore In 1768, Vijayarama Raju had granted the Jeypore as a jagir.
Muppala
The Sultans, Nizams and British all employed Rajus as the governors of estates with the responsibility of collecting taxes. In 1857 the British broke up the estates and realigned the bigger brigands into Princely states and the lesser ones as Zamindars or Jagirdars. These zamindars were abolished after the formation of the Indian Union in 1947.
Zamindars of Rajus :
Zamindars and the families that controlled them in parenthesis.
Andhra
Anegundi (Narapathi)
Ankapalle (Pusapadi)
Golconda (Bhupathiraju)
Chemudu (Vyricharla)
Charmahal (Kalidindi)
Chintalapalli (Alluri)
Darlapudi (Chintalapati)
Dimili (Pusapati)
Vijayawada (Bejawada Madhava Varma)
Eluru (Thirupathiraju)
Gandhavaram (Pakalapati)
Godi (Rudraraju)
Godicharla (Vatsavai)
Godilanka (Rudraraju)
Karvetinagar
Kasipuram (Pusapati)
Kumili (Pusapati)
Kuppili (Jampana)
Kottakota (Pinnamaraju)
Kota Uratla (Raja Sagi)
Kondakirla (Sagi)
Kurupam (Vyricharla)
Korukonda (Thirupathiraju)
Kottur (Sagi)
Koppuram (Nallaparaju)
Madgole (Chintalapati) Claim descent from Matsya desa.
Merangi (Satrucharla)
Mogalthur (Kalidindi)
Moida (Penumatsa)
Nakkapilli (Kakarlapudi)
Peddapuram (Vatsavai)
Puttur(Madiraju)
Rajamundry (Pusapati)
Ramachandrapuram Kota royal family SRK Raja Gopal Narasa Raju.
Rayavaram (Sagi)
Rajala (Sagi)
Rajapalayam(Valivarthi)
Razole (Kanumuri)
Revidi(Bhupathiraju)
Padmanabham(Raja Sagi)
Srirampuram (Kakarlapudi)
Salur (Satrucharla)
Thangedu (Raja Sagi)
Tuni (Vatsavai)
Uppada (Pusapati)
Vemalapudi (Sagi)
Velchur Kodur (Sagi)
Vizianagaram (Pusapati)
pedamajjipalem (siruvuri)
Wurutla (Dantuluri)
Jeypore In 1768, Vijayarama Raju had granted the Jeypore as a jagir.
Muppala
The Telugu Kshatriyas belonging to the five Gotras:
1. PASUPATI
2. KASHYAPA
3. VASISHTA
4. DHANUNJAYA
5. KAUNDINYA
Pasupati is a branch of Kashyapa Sage Kaundinya (Kundin) was the son of Vasishtha and nephew of Agastya.
Dhanunjaya is a branch of Vishwamitra. Most surnames in telugu states come from the family's town of origin so some of the surnames are found in other telugu communities. Some of the Kshatriya names are actually the same but due to regional pronunciation differences they are spelt differently.
Rajapalayam kshatriya Raju's :
The Rajapalayam kshatriya Raju's people who are living in the four kottas (ports) such as 1) The palayapalayam Kotta, 2) Sakkaraja Kotta, 3) Singa Raja kotta 4) Thiruvanantha puram kotta. The kshatriya Rajus of Rajapalayam have an unique establishment. The origin of the Raju's, who are living in Rajapalayam in Tamilnadu has five centuries back, belonging to Bhimavaram areas of West Godavari and Amalapuram areas of East Godavari belt of telugu region. The kshatriya Rajus, who came to this region in the last quarter of 15th Century. Sri Krishna Deva Raya, the Maharaja of vijaya Nagar kingdom had sent five Military commandos to Madurai Nayak kingdom to keep the law and order in the southern part of Nayaka kingdom at Sivagiri region. The kshatriya Raju team under the leadership of poosapadi china Raju, other four brothers reached and established good for the Nayaka kingdom of Madurai. The Madurai Nayak granted a part of land through innam sasanam (Free grant) to establish a fort there. So the middle of 16th century, the kshatriya Rajus constructed the palayapalayam fort and later at the close of 17th century, Kottimukala Duraithimma Raju purchased a land for constructing settlement through `kiraiya sasanam' (land purchased) and established the singaraja kotta.
Later, the sakkaraja kottai was established in 18th century and in 1927 the fourth kotta (i.e), Thiruvananthepuram kotta, was established. At present, the kshatriya Raju's of Rajapalayam are having four kottas for their housing settlement. There about 7500 families of kshatriya Raju's are living at Rajapalayam and its nearby areas of Tamilnadu.
There are four `Gothras' in our community people who are living in this area. They are:
1) Danajaya Kothram. 2) Vasista Kothram 3) Goundilya Kothram 4) kasiyabha Kothram and we have 26 house-names of telugu origin are living in and around Rajapalayam.
GOTRAS :
->VASISHTA
->PASUPATHI
->KASHYAPA
->DHANUNJAYA
->KAUNDINYA
->KAUSIHKA
Surnames of telugu KSHATRIYAAS Suryavamsham Dhananjaya Kasyapa Kaundinya Vasistha Addala Balaraju Addepalli Adduri Byrraju Bellamkonda Ayanampudi Alluri Bhupathiraju Chiruvella Chitraju Angaraju Champati Eedarapalli Dintakurthi Balaraju Chekuri (Sekuri) Gorinta Ede Bejawada Chintalapati Gobburi Inampudi Bhetalam Dandu Kanumuri Jampana (Varnata) Byrraju Dantuluri (Thantaluri) Kakkera Kalidindi Buddharaju Dasaraju Katari Kundaraju Chamarthi Datla (Thatla) Kadimella Mudunuri Dhenuvakonda Gadiraju Lakamraju Chinda Dendukuri Gandraju Mandapati (Manthapadi) Saripalli Erraguntala Gokaraju Mungara Vemulavada Gadiraju Gottumukkala Namburi Vemulamanda Ganapathiraju Guntimadugu Pathapati Yamanamanda Godavarthi Gunturi Saidu Chinda Gurjala Jampana (Kota) Sayyaparaju Gundraju Kallepalli Sirivella Immadiraju (Immalaraju) Kammela Solaraju Indukuri (Indukoori) Kankipati Solanki Isukapalli Kanteti Uppalapati Kakarlapudi Kasi Singaraju Kutcherlapati Kopperla Sirigiri bhogaraju Manthena (Manthana) Kokkerlapati BUTTI Mulagapati Konduri Muppalla Koppella Mungapati Kothapalli Nadimpalli Kunaparaju Nagaraju Kamparaju Kosuri Kovvuru Pusapati (Poosapadi) Nallaparaju Pericherla (Pericholi) Pakalapati (Pagalapati) Pinnamaraju Patsamatla (Patchamatla) Potturi Penumatsa (Penumathsa) Rajasagi Penmatsa, Penmetsa Sagi Pusampudi Sakhineti Rudraraju Sagiraju Sagiraju Samantapudi Sujjuri Siravuri Thotakura Vadapalli Thirumalaraju Vatsavai (Vathsvaya) Uddaraju/Vuddharaju Valivarthi Vadlamudi Vegesana (Vegesina) Vanapala Vetikuri Vegiraju Penmatsa Vempalli Pakalapati Vetukuri Siruvuri (Siroovuri) chiluvuri vulchi (sreeramraju) Yallamraju Nandimandalam Yarakaraju Aarveti Muthundi (Mudundi) Kaushika Gotra: 1. Dalavai 4.Siddiraju 2. Pocharaju 5.Simhadri 3. casthuri 6.Timmaraju 7.Varadaraju People belonging to Kaushika (Kaushik/Kousika/Kousikasa/Koushika/Kausika) Gotra take Rajarishi Kausikaas their root. Kausika was one of the names of Visvamitra. 11 Royal clans of 96 clan of Marathas belong to Kaushik gotra including the illustrious house of Shivaji and Rashtrakutas. 2 more clans belong to theVishvamitra gotra. Kaushika gotra also belongs to Baish clan of rajput which includes in the suryavanshi rajput. Pasupati Gotra: Pasupati Descended from: Sub-clans of Pasupati Gotra Alugunuru Anatharaju Anjiraju Ayyaparaju Balaraju Bayalraju Betharaju Bogaraju Bontaraju Buttamraju Chamarthi Chejerila Chennamraju Chennapay Chevuru CHINDA Chokkaraju Cibyala Daasanapu Dakshiraju Dalavayi Dommaraju Gadi Gouripuram Govindaraju Gunlapalli Hasthi Inkula Jagadabhi Kalvala Kaluvala Kamparaju Kanchiraju Katri Konduru Kocherla Lingaraju Medidaraju Mudhuluru Nandyala Nimmaraju Padmaraju Patarapalli Peddiraju Penugonda Raghava Sangama Sangaraju Solaraju Tipparaju Ummalaraju Valavarthi Vanipanta Vankeraju Veligandla Venkataraju Yadavalli Yellaturu Yerramraju .. Atrisha Gotra Guduru Gaddam Lagidi Gundraju Kadimella Nallooru Chakravarthula Bailraju Kashyapa Gotra Revaraju Balaraju Veligundla Alugunooru Sakunala Chejarla Uppalapati Ummalaraju Sammeta Suraparaju
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Surnames of telugu KSHATRIYAAS Suryavamsham Dhananjaya Kasyapa Kaundinya Vasistha Addala Balaraju Addepalli Adduri Byrraju Bellamkonda Ayanampudi Alluri Bhupathiraju Chiruvella Chitraju Angaraju Champati Eedarapalli Dintakurthi Balaraju Chekuri (Sekuri) Gorinta Ede Bejawada Chintalapati Gobburi Inampudi Bhetalam Dandu Kanumuri Jampana (Varnata) Byrraju Dantuluri (Thantaluri) Kakkera Kalidindi Buddharaju Dasaraju Katari Kundaraju Chamarthi Datla (Thatla) Kadimella Mudunuri Dhenuvakonda Gadiraju Lakamraju Chinda Dendukuri Gandraju Mandapati (Manthapadi) Saripalli Erraguntala Gokaraju Mungara Vemulavada Gadiraju Gottumukkala Namburi Vemulamanda Ganapathiraju Guntimadugu Pathapati Yamanamanda Godavarthi Gunturi Saidu Chinda Gurjala Jampana (Kota) Sayyaparaju Gundraju Kallepalli Sirivella Immadiraju (Immalaraju) Kammela Solaraju Indukuri (Indukoori) Kankipati Solanki Isukapalli Kanteti Uppalapati Kakarlapudi Kasi Singaraju Kutcherlapati Kopperla Sirigiri bhogaraju Manthena (Manthana) Kokkerlapati BUTTI Mulagapati Konduri Muppalla Koppella Mungapati Kothapalli Nadimpalli Kunaparaju Nagaraju Kamparaju Kosuri Kovvuru Pusapati (Poosapadi) Nallaparaju Pericherla (Pericholi) Pakalapati (Pagalapati) Pinnamaraju Patsamatla (Patchamatla) Potturi Penumatsa (Penumathsa) Rajasagi Penmatsa, Penmetsa Sagi Pusampudi Sakhineti Rudraraju Sagiraju Sagiraju Samantapudi Sujjuri Siravuri Thotakura Vadapalli Thirumalaraju Vatsavai (Vathsvaya) Uddaraju/Vuddharaju Valivarthi Vadlamudi Vegesana (Vegesina) Vanapala Vetikuri Vegiraju Penmatsa Vempalli Pakalapati Vetukuri Siruvuri (Siroovuri) chiluvuri vulchi (sreeramraju) Yallamraju Nandimandalam Yarakaraju Aarveti Muthundi (Mudundi) Kaushika Gotra: 1. Dalavai 4.Siddiraju 2. Pocharaju 5.Simhadri 3. casthuri 6.Timmaraju 7.Varadaraju People belonging to Kaushika (Kaushik/Kousika/Kousikasa/Koushika/Kausika) Gotra take Rajarishi Kausikaas their root. Kausika was one of the names of Visvamitra. 11 Royal clans of 96 clan of Marathas belong to Kaushik gotra including the illustrious house of Shivaji and Rashtrakutas. 2 more clans belong to theVishvamitra gotra. Kaushika gotra also belongs to Baish clan of rajput which includes in the suryavanshi rajput. Pasupati Gotra: Pasupati Descended from: Sub-clans of Pasupati Gotra Alugunuru Anatharaju Anjiraju Ayyaparaju Balaraju Bayalraju Betharaju Bogaraju Bontaraju Buttamraju Chamarthi Chejerila Chennamraju Chennapay Chevuru CHINDA Chokkaraju Cibyala Daasanapu Dakshiraju Dalavayi Dommaraju Gadi Gouripuram Govindaraju Gunlapalli Hasthi Inkula Jagadabhi Kalvala Kaluvala Kamparaju Kanchiraju Katri Konduru Kocherla Lingaraju Medidaraju Mudhuluru Nandyala Nimmaraju Padmaraju Patarapalli Peddiraju Penugonda Raghava Sangama Sangaraju Solaraju Tipparaju Ummalaraju Valavarthi Vanipanta Vankeraju Veligandla Venkataraju Yadavalli Yellaturu Yerramraju .. Atrisha Gotra Guduru Gaddam Lagidi Gundraju Kadimella Nallooru Chakravarthula Bailraju Kashyapa Gotra Revaraju Balaraju Veligundla Alugunooru Sakunala Chejarla Uppalapati Ummalaraju Sammeta Suraparaju
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People belonging to Kaushika (Kaushik/Kousika/Kousikasa/Koushika/Kausika) Gotra take Rajarishi Kausikaas their root. Kausika was one of the names of Visvamitra. 11 Royal clans of 96 clan of Marathas belong to Kaushik gotra including the illustrious house of Shivaji and Rashtrakutas. 2 more clans belong to theVishvamitra gotra. Kaushika gotra also belongs to Baish clan of rajput which includes in the suryavanshi rajput.
Atrisha Gotra :
Guduru
Gaddam
Lagidi
Gundraju
Kadimella
Nallooru
Chakravarthula
Bailraju
Kasyapa Gotra :
Revaraju
Balaraju
Veligundla
Alugunooru
Sakunala
Chejarla
Uppalapati
Ummalaraju
Sammeta
Suraparaju
Today Rajus are mostly peaceful business men and professionals,they are having some political significance.They were always ready to chance their luck in battle , now they are prepared to do so in business, and they work very hard and have done well in industry.
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