References

• Durga Prasad, 1988, History of the Andhras Till 1565 A.D.,  P. G. Publishers, Guntur.
• Katten, Michael, Making Caste In Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha & Velama Identity, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
• Roghair, Gene H, 1982, The epic of Palnadu: a study and translation of Palnati virula katha, a Telugu oral tradition from Andhra Pradesh, India, Oxford University Press.
• Talbot, Cynthia, 2004, Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (Hardcover), Oxford University Press (January 27, 2004), p323
• A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, Second edition, By Sir Ravu Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Rao

• History of the Andhras Till 1565 A.D., Durga Prasad
• A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha & Velama Identity, Michael Katten, University of California at Berkeley
• A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, By Sir Ravu Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Rao

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