Sri Bagh Residence
The Kasinadhuni family Residence was a beautiful and famous building situated at 103, Luz Church Road, Chennai acquired by Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao from the family members of P.R. Sundara Iyer (1863-1913) and was built in the garden house style with a large porte cochere, ornamental balustrades, high ceilings and marble floors. A number of windows let in plenty of air into this two-storeyed bungalow whose ceiling has the typical Madras terrace supported by rafters, a forgotten technology today. There are ten entrances to the house, each of which once had a painting of one of Vishnu’s ten avatars. After Sundara Iyer’s death, his sons had to sell the property owing to business losses.
The house became much famous and centre of patriotic activity with the visit of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) and stay at Sri Bagh Residence on 23 and 24 December 1932 according to the records and published literature.
Sri Bagh Agreement as it is known is an agreement signed at the Sri Bagh Residence on 16 November 1937 and signatories to the agreement were K.Koti Reddy, Kalluri Subba Rao, L.Subbarami Reddy, Bhogaraju Pattabhi Seetharamayya, Konda Venkatappyya, Pappuri Ramacharyulu, R.Venkatappa Naidu, H.Seetharama Reddy. This was an agreement for development of Rayalaseema Region at par with coastal areas and part of the effort to bring in consensus among all the regions before formation of Andhra Pradesh carving out Telugu speaking areas from Composite State of Madras and unifying the areas of Nizam rule post independence of India. The agreement can be changed by mutual agreement.
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