# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kandukuri-vireshalingam
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:40:05.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kandukuri-vireshalingam"
name: "Kandukuri Vireshalingam"
slug: "kandukuri-vireshalingam"
description: "Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissance movement. He was one of the early social reformers who encouraged the education of women and the remarriage of widows. He also fought against child marriage and the dowry system. He started a school in Dowlaiswaram in 1874, constructed the 'Brahmo Mandir' in 1887 and built the 'Hithakarini School' in 1908 in Andhra Pradesh. His novel Rajasekhara Charitramu is considered to be the first novel in Telugu literature."
tagline: "Social reformer and father of modern Telugu literature"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1848-04-16"
deathDate: "1919-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.863576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump