Siripuram

The tradition & historical record

Siripuram is a village and a gram panchayat of Ramannapet Mandal, Nalgonda District, in Telangana state in India. (Pincode Telangana 508113). It is 71 km from Hyderabad. (There is also a Siripuram village in Andhra Pradesh India - pincode 522401). Siripuram is known for its textile industries. Nearly 60% of the people are employed as weavers, or textile dyeing workers. Siripuram is the place of a long-known traditional weaving process called ikat. Ikat is a term that means "Poetry of the Loom." It is recognizable by its geometric patterns and blurry lines. The main agricultural resources are cotton and wheat. ¹

The original residents (the Padmashali weavers community) named the village Siriconagaram (Siri-Gold, Nagaram-village or city), in their words "sirilu Unna nagaram". They chose this name as they considered their threads as their gold. Since then many people have migrated and settled here. The Nizams ruled the village of Siripuram and the last Nizam to rule Siripuram was Aurangzeb. Though the Nizams continue to rule Hyderabad, they no longer have control over Siripuram. The Communist Party leaders helped the people of Siripuram to rule out Nizams. Ikat is identified to be in existence since the 5th century through the sculptures of ajantha caves. The exact origin of Ikat in Telangana is unrecorded but the people of Siripuram claim to have been weaving Ikats for the past 150 to 200 years. The women of Hyderabad considered wearing ikat as a show of prestige and grandeur. ¹

There are four Schools in Siripuram - Nethaji High School, Zphs Siripuram, Zilla Parishat High School and Nethaji Primary School. Siripuram has two hospitals, Siripuram Panchayath and Vijaya Clinic Siripuram. It also has two restaurants and a hotel. ¹

By train - there are three trains from Hyderabad. ¹

Janmabumi express Narayanadri express Falaknuma express The nearest railway station to Siripuram is Ramannapeta (5.2 km away) By bus - Imlibun bus stand to Choutuppal. Then Choutuppal to Siripuram. The nearest bus station is Siripuram bus stand. Nearest airports ¹

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Begumpet Airport ¹

Siripuram 2011 Census Details Total Population 4379 Total No of Houses 1144 Female Population 49.9% (2187) Total Literacy rate 61.5% (2692) Female Literacy rate 25.7% (1125) Scheduled Tribes Population 1.0% (42) Scheduled Caste Population 9.6% (421) Working Population 49.0% Child (age 0-6) Population 377 Girl Child (age 0-6) Population 47.2% (178) The local Language is Telugu. ¹

Most of the population of Siripuram are Hindu. There are four temples in the village as well as one mosque. Goddesses Yellamma and Uppalamma are prayed every day for good fortune. Varunadeva (god of rain) is also paid homage to. The ladies of the washer community hold a frog, tie it in a cloth to a stick along with some neem leaves and flowers. They carry this frog to every house and ask the lady of the house to shower the frog with water. They believe that Varunadeva will be pleased and shower them with rains and keep their washing profession alive. After it rains, they marry the frog with another and complete their tradition. ¹

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Siripuram, Nalgonda district”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. ¹

Siripuram is village in Telangana, India, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

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