Karanam

Karanam (also spelled as Karnam), is a title and surname native to Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Traditionally, Karanam or Karnam was a title used by people who maintained the accounts and records of the villages and used in collecting taxes. The post was usually held by either Niyogi Brahmins^[1] or Kayastha^[1] or Deshastha Brahmins.^[2]^{[need quotation to verify]} The title Karanam is similar to Kulkarni in North Karnataka and Maharashtra and Shanbhaug in Karnataka and Patnaik in Odisha.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Notable people[]

Notable people with the surname include:

Karanam Balaram Krishna Murthy - Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh.
Karanam Pavan Prasad - Indian author, artist and playwright in Kannada language.
Karnam Malleswari - Indian weightlifter.
Karnam Venkatachalam - Government official during British Raj times.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Partha Chatterjee (29 November 2011). Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy. Columbia University Press. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-231-52791-0. The Sakala-niti-sammatamu, for instance, is an anthology of nearly a thousand extracts drawn from seventeen niti texts, but not a single quotation is from the dharma text. Rao and Subrahmanyam also stress that this specific genre of niti texts was composed and read by the group of scholar-bureaucrats whom they refer to broadly as karanam. These were usually Niyogi Brahmins or Kayasthas who worked as ministers or advisers to minor princes or feudatories in andhra, karnataka and orissa. They were usually literate in sanskrit...
^ Bhavani Raman (2007). Document Raj: Scribes and Writing Under Early Colonial Rule Madras, 1771-1860. University of Michigan. p. 85.
^ "shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in" (PDF).
^ Trimbaka Nārāyaṇa Ātre (2000). The Village Cart: Translation of T.N. Atre's Gaav Gada. Popular Prakashan. p. 49. ISBN 9788171548637. The last word has probably come to the North from South India since , in Kannada ( language ) , a peasant is called kul and kulkarni is called karnam.
^ Community Development and Panchayati Raj Digest, Volumes 3-5. National Institute of Community Development. 1971. p. 334. Patwari / karanam shall be the additional secretary to the gram panchayat for keeping the record concering lands
^ Ruedi Baumgartner; Ruedi Hogger (10 August 2004). In Search of Sustainable Livelihood Systems: Managing Resources and Change. SAGE Publishing India. p. 530. ISBN 9789352802661. The term Reddy, though it has a connotation of caste to it, also meant the headman. The Kannada equivalent is patel or gauda. Likewise the traditional village accountant, referred to in Telugu as Karnam or as Shanubhog in Kannada, was responsible for all record keeping.
^ A. Rā Kulakarṇī (1996). Marathas and the Marathas Country: Medieval Maharashtra. Books & Books. p. 28. ISBN 9788185016481. On the basis of English records, he gives an elaborate account of the village officials like Karnam (village accountant), the role of the Deshastha brahmans etc . which can be compared with similar officials and castes in Maratha country.

[Chatterjee2011-1] Partha Chatterjee (29 November 2011). Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy. Columbia University Press. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-231-52791-0. The Sakala-niti-sammatamu, for instance, is an anthology of nearly a thousand extracts drawn from seventeen niti texts, but not a single quotation is from the dharma text. Rao and Subrahmanyam also stress that this specific genre of niti texts was composed and read by the group of scholar-bureaucrats whom they refer to broadly as karanam. These were usually Niyogi Brahmins or Kayasthas who worked as ministers or advisers to minor princes or feudatories in andhra, karnataka and orissa. They were usually literate in sanskrit...

[2] Bhavani Raman (2007). Document Raj: Scribes and Writing Under Early Colonial Rule Madras, 1771-1860. University of Michigan. p. 85.

[3] "shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in" (PDF).

[4] Trimbaka Nārāyaṇa Ātre (2000). The Village Cart: Translation of T.N. Atre's Gaav Gada. Popular Prakashan. p. 49. ISBN 9788171548637. The last word has probably come to the North from South India since , in Kannada ( language ) , a peasant is called kul and kulkarni is called karnam.

[5] Community Development and Panchayati Raj Digest, Volumes 3-5. National Institute of Community Development. 1971. p. 334. Patwari / karanam shall be the additional secretary to the gram panchayat for keeping the record concering lands

[6] Ruedi Baumgartner; Ruedi Hogger (10 August 2004). In Search of Sustainable Livelihood Systems: Managing Resources and Change. SAGE Publishing India. p. 530. ISBN 9789352802661. The term Reddy, though it has a connotation of caste to it, also meant the headman. The Kannada equivalent is patel or gauda. Likewise the traditional village accountant, referred to in Telugu as Karnam or as Shanubhog in Kannada, was responsible for all record keeping.

[7] A. Rā Kulakarṇī (1996). Marathas and the Marathas Country: Medieval Maharashtra. Books & Books. p. 28. ISBN 9788185016481. On the basis of English records, he gives an elaborate account of the village officials like Karnam (village accountant), the role of the Deshastha brahmans etc . which can be compared with similar officials and castes in Maratha country.

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