T. Sanganna

T. Sanganna
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1957-1962
Succeeded byRamachandra Ulaka
ConstituencyKoraput, Odisha
In office
1952-1957
Succeeded byBijaya Chandra Pradhan
ConstituencyRayagada-Phulbani, Odisha
Personal details
PartyIndian National Congress
Other political
affiliations
Nikhil Utkal Adibasi Congress
SpouseSudha
Source: [1]

Toyaka Sanganna was an Indian politician, tribal welfare activist and writer from Odisha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress in the first and second terms of the Lok Sabha. As member of Parliament he served on the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission(1960-61) along with Verrier Elwin, Subodh Chandra Hansdah.[1]

Toyaka explicitly claimed that the Odia speaking tribals in the border areas adjoining to Andhra Pradesh- Odisha should be reorganised into the Odisha State for the greater good of the tribal populations and their development.[2]

He also served as a Minister of Tribal and Rural Welfare in the Government of Odisha between 1963 to 1965[3][4][5][6][7]

He was a strong advocate for the abolition of the Goti system of debt bonded labour and slavery which was practiced in the Koraput region. In this system individuals from tribal communities were forced to work to repay debts. This exploitative practice was a significant socio-economic issue in the region hindering the growth of human development in tribal inhabited regions of South Odisha.

During his tenure in office as Member of Parliament and also later as Minister in the Odisha Government he wrote columns and articles in the Adivasi a journal published by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

The following submissions authored by Sanganna and published in the Adivasi are as follows:-

  • The Challenge of Diversity. Toyaka Sangana. Vol. VI, No. 1, 1964-65, pp. 13-14
  • Problems of Defintion . Toyaka Sangana. Vol. VI, No. 2, 1964-65, pp. 15-18
  • Tribal Culture and its Preservation and Scientific Development. Toyaka Sangana. Vol. V, No. 3, 1963-64, pp. 3-4
  • Tribal Problems of Orissa. T. Sanganna. Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1966-67, pp. 2-8

References

  1. ^ Report. 1960-61, Volume 1, By India. Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission · 1961 pp. XVII, XIX, 499
  2. ^ Sarangi, Asha (29 November 2020), "Nehru and the Reorganisation of States: Making of Political India", Interrogating Reorganisation of States, Routledge India, pp. 29–47, ISBN 978-0-367-81809-8, retrieved 25 November 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  3. ^ Sir Stanley Reed (1958). The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who. Bennett, Coleman & Company. p. 1121. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  4. ^ Orissa Review. Home Department, Government of Orissa. 1962. p. 46. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  5. ^ "LIST OF KORAPUT MP'S AND RUNNER UP CANDIDATES FROM PAST LOK SABHA ELECTIONS". OneIndia. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ^ Orissa Review. Vol. 21. Bhubaneswar, Orissa: Home Department, Government of Orissa. 1965. pp. 32, 36.
  7. ^ Sharma, Seema; Chander, Subhash; Subramani, Velliyan; Kumar, Pratik; Bhaskar, Suman; Pathy, Sushmita; Thulkar, Sanjay; Gopishankar, N.; Sairem, Megha; Binjola, Ashish; N, Dhayanethi; S., PradeepKumar; Agarwal., Priyanka (30 April 2017). "IMRT AND VMAT COMMISSIONING FOR VERSA HD LINEAR ACCELERATOR USING AAPM TG-119". International Journal of Advanced Research. 5 (4): 22. doi:10.21474/ijar01/3819. ISSN 2320-5407.