Born in the year 1890, Darisi Chenchaiah was a freedom fighter known for his work as a social reformer especially for the upliftment of women. Chenchaiah was born in 1890 in a poor Vaishya family in Kanigiri, Prakasam district. He was influenced by the lectures of Bipin Chandra Pal and felt that the struggle for freedom can only be achieved through the medium of revolution. He was an active worker in a political party for some period of time. His wife, Smt. Darishi Annapoornamma, was a Telugu poet, social activist and freedom fighter who participated in the Salt Satyagraha.
A well-known writer, Chenchaiah's autobiography ‘Nenu Na Desamoo’ is popular among his works. Chenchaiah studied agriculture at the University of California at Berkeley. There, he met Indian revolutionary Lala Haradayal at the California University in 1912. Along with Jitendranath Lahari, he founded the Gaddar Party. Chenchaiah, who joined the Gaddar Party, did not like the way the Punjabi youths of that party displayed the sense of patriotism as their own. He argued that patriotism is for everyone. This increased the respect of Gaddar Party members towards him.
On his way home from America, Chenchaiah was arrested and imprisoned in India for a term of four and a half years by the British government as a traitor. Out of his 36 years of public life, he spent nearly 8 years in prison for the cause of freedom of the nation