Alluri Sitaram Raju
The Rampa Rebellion (1922): Under the leadership of Alluri Sita Rama Raju, the tribal movement was fought against British as a protest to the 1882 Madras Forest Act in Visakhapatnam. As per the Act, tribal people were restricted on the free movement in the forest areas and prevented them from engaging in their traditional Podu (shifting) cultivation and use of the forest for firewood and toddy. The revolted was lasted till Alluri Sita Rama Raju shot dead by the British forces in Mampa village of Visakhapatnam on May 7, 1924.
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