Name the author of Usliaparinayam, a Telugu work which mention about the grant of Madrasapatnam to English in 1639 A.D.
Anka Bhubala
In 1639 A.D. Francis Day of the English East India Company obtained a strip of coastal land from Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, the local Nayak under the Vijayanagara ruler Venkata III. Fort St. George was built there and the settlement grew into Madras.
This grant of Madrasapatnam is recorded in the Telugu poem Usha Parinayam (spelt Usliaparinayam in the question), composed by Anka Bhupala (Ankabhupala), a younger brother of the Damarla Nayak family.
Since the poet belonged to the very family that made the grant, his work is an important contemporary literary source on the founding of Madras. The other names given are not connected with this work.
Hence, Anka Bhubala.
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