Alluri Sitaram Raju was a tribal freedom fighter from which state of India?

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This question was previously asked in

SSC MTS Previous Year Paper (Held on: 6 July 2022 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Andhra Pradesh.

Key Points

About Alluri Sitaram Raju:

In 1922, Indian revolutionary Alluri Sitaram Raju led the Rampa Rebellion against the British raj for their imposition of the 1882 Madras Forest Act, which severely restricted the free movement of the tribal community within their own forests.
Under the implications of this Act, the community was unable to fully carry out the traditional Podu agricultural system, which involved shifting cultivation.
The armed struggle came to a violent end in 1924, when Raju was captured by police forces, tied to a tree, and shot by a firing squad. His heroics resulted in him being titled manyam veerudu, or ‘the hero of the jungle’.

Additional InformationKomaram Bheem:

Born in Telangana’s Adilabad district in 1901, Bheem was a member of the Gond community and grew up in the populated forests of the Chanda and Ballalpur kingdoms.
Komaram Bheem had escaped from prison to a tea plantation in Assam.
Here, he heard about the rebellion being led by Alluri and found a new sense of inspiration to protect the Gond tribe to which he belonged.