Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma
Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma (1891 – 7 January 1963) was an Indian historian, who worked at the Andhra University. The "Mallampalli Somasekhara Sarma Historical Research Foundation" was established in Visakhapatnam in honour of Sarma. It awards annual memorial awards in his name to acclaimed historians of Andhra. Works. The two books "Forgotten Chapter" and "History of Reddi Kingdoms" deal with the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Kakatiya Empire, the former covering the history of Musunuri Nayakas and the latter the history of Reddi kingdoms. Reception. Sarma hypothesised that the Reddi kings were subordinate to the Musunuri chiefs  during their inception: The theory was criticised by historian M. Rama Rao, who noted that the founder of the Reddi line, Prolaya Vema Reddi, predated Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka. He concludes: Modern historian Cynthia Talbot has warned against taking the inscriptional evidence at face value. She also demonstrated that Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka being a lord of 75 subordinates was a formulaic device.