Consider the following statements with respect to the Manyam Rebellion:

It was started in Assam against the British.

It was launched against the order prohibiting tribal communities from engaging in Podu agricultural system.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Alluri Sitharama Raju is believed to have been born on 04 July 1897, in a village called Mogallu near Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.
By the age of 18, he became a sanyasi renouncing all worldly pleasures and mingled with the local tribal community.
These tribes followed the ‘Podu’ system of cultivation, whereby every year some amounts of forest tracts were cleared for cultivation.
The Madras Forest Act of 1882 banned the collection of minor forest produce and tribal people were forced into labour by the colonial government.
It restricted the free movement of the tribal communities and prohibiting them from engaging in Podu agricultural system.
This oppressive order was the beginning of the tribal revolt, also known as the Manyam Rebellion.
In August 1922, he launched the Rampa Rebellion against the British.
He used guerrilla warfare along with his army of tribal people to fight against the British.
However, on 07 May 1924, he was treacherously trapped, tied to a tree, and shot dead.
He was honoured for his valour and fiery spirit with the title, “Manyam Veerudu” (Hero of the Jungle).
On his 125^thbirth anniversary our Prime Minister unveiled a 30-ft bronze statue of him at Bhimavaram, in the West Godavari district.

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Alluri Sitharama Raju is believed to have been born on 04 July 1897, in a village called Mogallu near Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.
By the age of 18, he became a sanyasi renouncing all worldly pleasures and mingled with the local tribal community.
These tribes followed the ‘Podu’ system of cultivation, whereby every year some amounts of forest tracts were cleared for cultivation.
The Madras Forest Act of 1882 banned the collection of minor forest produce and tribal people were forced into labour by the colonial government.
It restricted the free movement of the tribal communities and prohibiting them from engaging in Podu agricultural system.
This oppressive order was the beginning of the tribal revolt, also known as the Manyam Rebellion.
In August 1922, he launched the Rampa Rebellion against the British.
He used guerrilla warfare along with his army of tribal people to fight against the British.
However, on 07 May 1924, he was treacherously trapped, tied to a tree, and shot dead.
He was honoured for his valour and fiery spirit with the title, “Manyam Veerudu” (Hero of the Jungle).
On his 125^thbirth anniversary our Prime Minister unveiled a 30-ft bronze statue of him at Bhimavaram, in the West Godavari district.

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