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Option 3 : Alluri Sitarama Raju
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Alluri Sitarama Raju.
The Rampa movement was led by an outsider Alluri Sitarama Raju and is now a folk hero in Andhra Pradesh.
- Rampa is the region in the north of Godavari, witnessed various uprising during the nineteenth century.
- In 1916, it saw a revolt which introduced several guerrilla warfares in the region between August 1922 to May 1924.
- They were against the money lenders and forest laws.
- The immediate spark came when a tahsildar was trying to construct a forest road with unpaid labour.
- Alluri Sitarama Raju was inspired by the Non-cooperation movement and admire Gandhi but he considered violence necessary to win the tribal goals.
- He was captured and killed in May 1924.
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