In South India, revolutionary Alluri Sitarama Raju (July 4, 1897 to May 7, 1924), was remembered on his birth anniversary who is deemed as a great warrior and brave son India, who fought against the British to safeguard the rights of the tribal on the forests and farm lands. The observance was informed about via facebook post by the Shri Prakash Vidyaniketan School in Visakhapatnam.
Young revolutionary fought against the colonial rule by opposing the 1882 Madras Forest Act - the draconian law that imposed restriction on the 'free movement of tribal people in the forest' as well as 'prevented them from engaging in their traditional 'podu' agricultural system, which involved shifting cultivation,' as posted in Wikipedia.
Initially he started the non-cooperation movement against the Act but shifted to revolutionary zeal to fight for country's independence from the British Rule. He led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922, in tribal areas of the East Godavari and Visakhapatnam regions of the present day Andhra Pradesh.
He was trapped and executed at an age of around 25 years. He revered by the name Manyam Veerudu by the south Indians.
His message is being expressed in haiku
Exploit not Nature
For mere economic gains
By powers that be
Wooded, farm areas -
subsistence economy
needed safeguarding
Decolonize land
Mount passive resistance first
Then armed uprising
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