Gruhalakshmi Swarnakankanam or the Swarnakankanam Awards, is award established in 1934 to honour women for excellence in literature and social reform. Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao launched a monthly magazine for women called Gruhalakshmi in 1928 and founded the Swarnakankanam (gold bracelet) awards for women.
Recipients of the Swarnakankanam award
- Kanuparti Varalakshmamma (1934)
- ?? (1935)
- ?? (1936)
- ?? (1937)
- ?? (1938)
- Ratnala Kamalabai and Seshamamba {1939)
- ?? (1941)
- ?? (1948)
- ?? (1949)
- Ganti Krishnavenamma(1950)
- Ponaka Kanakamma (1955, April 26th)
- Kommuri Padmavatidevi (1956)
- Utukuri Lakshmikantamma
- Illindala Saraswatidevi
- K. Ramalakshmi
- Tenneti Hemalata (Lata)(1963)
- Vedula Meenakshidevi
- Nayani Krishnakumari
- Gudipudi Indumatidevi
- Kanakadurga Ramachandran
- Abburi Chayadevi
- Gidugu Lakshmikantamma
External sources
- K. Ramalakshmi (Comp.)(1968) Andhra Racayitrulu samaachara suchika. Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi.
- Yeddanapudi Sulochanarani and Prabhavati, Vasa. Ed.(2009) Nenu, naa rachanalu. Hyderabad: Mahila Chaitanya sahiti samskrutika samstha.