Q. Who among the following freedom fighters from south India is credited for coining the slogan ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ and also for his contribution in the culmination of the Telangana Rebellion of 1946?
Answer:
Komaram Bheem
Notes:
- Alluri Sitaram Raju, an Indian rebel who became a monk at the age of 18, led the Rampa Rebellion in 1922 opposing the British Raj for enacting the 1882 Madras Forest Act.
- Komaram Bheem belonged to Gond tribe. He waged a rebellion against the feudal Nizams of Hyderabad and the British Raj in the eastern part of the princely state during the 1930s which contributed in the culmination of the Telangana Rebellion of 1946. He is credited for coining the slogan Jal, Jangal, Zameen.
- Pingali Venkayya was a freedom fighter and the designer of the Indian National Tricolour.
- Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Tamil Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankuruchi in Tamil Nadu, India. He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against them.