Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history
Kailasam was one of the original leaders of the Srikakulam peasant uprising.
[1] Kailasam came from a landlord family of Kaarivalasa village in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh.
In the early 1960s, Kailasam and his colleague Satyanaraya, began to organise tribal peasants in the Srikakulam area.
State authorities began to register criminal cases against the two, and they decided to go into hiding.