The book is a translation from Telugu of the Autobiography of Shri Darisi Chencheyya, a freedom fighter and founding member of the Gadar Party. It is considered to be one of the finest Autobiographies in Telugu.
Chencheyya was born in 1890 in Kanigiri village of Andhra Pradesh. His initial schooling was in the same village. The most powerful man in his village was the tehsildar, and the little Chencheyya aspired to study well and become one. He went to Ongole for high school study and he was the only one who passed the matriculation exam in the first attempt that year. He was attracted to the Swadeshi movement from that time itself due to his fellow student Shri. Nallamalli Varadarajam. After completing high school, he joined Pachayyappa’s College in Madras (now Chennai) for intermediate studies. As the subjects were not to his liking or interest, he did not complete it....