Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma

Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma (24 December 1891 – 7 January 1963) was an Indian historian, who worked at the Andhra University. He was born at Miniminchilipadu Agraharam, a village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh to Bhadrayya and Nagamma. Somasekhara Sarma couldn't continue his education beyond matriculation due to poverty. He started his career as a menial employee in Kannemera Library in Madras ( now called Chennai) where he could have interactions with intellectuals like Lakshmanrao Komarraju and Chilukuri Veerabhadra Rao. Then he went to Rajahmundry to work for Deshamata , published by Chilakamarthi Lakshminarasimham . He worked for Andhra Patrika magazine from 1924 to 1940. He taught research in history at Andhra University from 1940 to 1946 .

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