Munnuru Kapu

Munnuru Kapu is a sub caste of Kapu or Naidu community of Andhra Pradesh.They are concentrated in the Telangana Region of Andhra Pradesh.

Munnuru(Tamil word) referred as Moodu Nooru which means three hundred in Telugu, The three hundred Kapu families who moved from Tanlavore region to Telangana are called Munnuru Kapu. The community is primarily concentrated in Telangana region.They are primarily an Agrarian community.

Origin

• Kapus were the earliest inhabitants of the Deccan region, people who migrated from the north, cleared forests for agriculture and built settlements.

• Kapu are the descendants of the Kaampu tribe, an Indo-Aryan tribe, which migrated from Kampilya, Mithila and Ayodhya, ancient cities situated in the Gangetic Plains of North India .

To this day, a heavy concentration of Munnuru Kapus and Telagas are found on the banks of the Godavari in the North Telangana districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam, Nalgonda and the coastal districts of East Godavari and West Godavari, in which lies the Godavari delta and the Krishna Delta(Krishna & Guntur Dt).

• The settlement slowly spread among the geographical area of the three Shaiva Lingams of Draksharamam (East Godavari district), Srisailam (Kurnool district) and Srikalahasti (Chittor district).Telugu

• This Settlement& Geographical Area was referred to as Tri-linga Desam in the Ancient Texts and the people who were settled in......
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