Santosh ji, you were already very careful about expressing skepticism on reDDi vs raTTaDi, but even such conjectures are helpful to get going. So many interesting unexplored questions.

Yes Violet, I realise that I have missed several things in my earlier comments. One of it is that the Kammas of Krishna and Guntur at some point in the medieval period ended up migrating to Tamil Nadu and some southern Andhra districts like Chittoor and this I guess is as soldiers (I think it’s reasonable to think that a significant percentage soldiers of Andhra and Telangana in the medieval period were of farming background.). Narasimha Rao’s very reasonable suggestion of deriving the ending part of many Kamma caste surnames -nEni from nayakuDu*-like words origins comes into play here. So I think that the above evidence also supports the idea that a significant percentage of these people may have been soldiers or familiar with that profession. To some extent, they might have been village chiefs in the districts with their majority like Krishna, Guntur, etc. too.

It is indeed the case that I was quite familiar with the details that you wrote above but for some reason, I always forget all the details when writing a comment lol. I cringed like anything after remembering the Tamil Nadu soldierly origin sub-batch (especially cringeworthy after that nice falsity about these people hugging the Krishna river near its delta all their history lol) but then simply thought to myself mUsIlO munaganivvu haha.

*- I think the most probable possibility here is that -nEni is the Old-Telugu-like-conservative genitive case ending of the word nEDu (example: Old Telugu genitive rAmuni from rAmuDu as opposed to the Modern Telugu genitive form rAmuDi) which seems like a shortened form of nAyuDu, ‘leader’ which itself is an intimate Telugu-ised form based on the original Sanskrit form nAyaka (as opposed to the tatsamaM nAyakuDu). There is another shortened form of nAyuDu that can be seen in still some names: nIDu; example: names like bApinIDu.

Haha I don’t know why you are generally so nice to me but I like it very much. Thank you! But I must point out that I am not at all sure about some bits of the above post like the early dynamics of the political parties in Andhra, etc. The only thing I can be sure about is that I personally am quite unsure if the A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary is right in etymologising reDDi as deriving from raTTaDi. (The Etymological Dictionary though it is such a magnificent work of wonder is not 100% correct and there are some corrections suggested for some entries within it by scholars like Bh. Krishnamurti, etc. after publication.)

(I typically also avoid writing follow-ups pointing out or explaining my mistakes pertaining to things unless when I deem quite necessary, because it feels very painful to prolong discussion on a dying comment needlessly and not letting it die (I’m very shallow in my morals lol – I have this very easy tendency to support assisted suicides, euthanasia, and things like that). So I sometimes take the opportunity to highlight my mistakes and avenues where the probability that I would have gone wrong is very high whenever there is the first reply.)

(It also feels a bit strange if someone is grateful to me in response to something I say because I used to have this perhaps quite strange but radically implemented philosophical policy in my early and later adolescence and young adulthood (I’m still a YA though) that I should try my level best not to have any influence of any kind whatsoever on any person but I have gradually realised the futility of sustaining such principles when they are physically impossible to achieve and thus becoming more and more okay with the phenomenon of bidirectional influence flow lol.)

Dear Santosh, Thank you for the excellent response. Knew almost nothing of the material you have just taught me.

Santosh,
I don’t think Kamma prosperity is that recent. Most of my sources are oral (e.g grandma and her grand father history through her). But Garapati Narasimha Rao mentioned one time in his speeches that “neni” is a contraction of “nayakuni “ and people with those family names are likely chieftains of some sort.
Think of Akkineni and last names of some AP politicians…

A couple of FB post in one place predicting if there is a war with Iran

a) Gold will sky rocket USD 1,700/oz and above is a high probability (USD 1,400 on June 20)
b) Will Trigger a Financial Crash bigger than the 2008 because

Possibility of Oil pushing USD 100- USD 150
That will trigger trillions in derivatives and the dominoes fall

c) Saudi Arabia will fall apart, like Libya. Recall what happened to Kuwait. Luckily Bush senior saved absorption of Kuwait into Iraq.

http://sbarrkum.blogspot.com/2019/06/trump-iran-gold-and-finacial-crash.html

I think their obsession with Israel entangles them in needless confrontations with the West. They are capable of doing better things.

Scorpion Eater,

Iran is NOT engaging in needless confrontations.

Sanctions, are strangling Iran. It is war by other means, to destroy or make Iran subservient.

Like Iran says, if they cant export oil, no one will be allowed to export oil thru the Straits of Hormuz.

I haven’t realized before that Slapsy is an undercover OIT guy. It seems that he finally came out.

Iran has shown spine by detaining the British tanker.

I think their obsession with Israel entangles them in needless confrontations with the West. They are capable of doing better things.