{"id":53606,"date":"2025-07-06T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53606"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:07:05","slug":"alluri-sitaram-raju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alluri-sitaram-raju\/","title":{"rendered":"Alluri Sitaram Raju"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Alluri Sitaram Raju Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defence Minister recently said that the government has emulated legendary revolutionary Alluri Sitarama Raju\u2019s ideals in making a tribal woman, Draupadi Murmu, as the President of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Alluri Sitaram Raju<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was an <\/span><b>Indian revolutionary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who waged an armed campaign <\/span><b>against British colonial rule in India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Born to a Telugu-speaking family <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on 4th July 1897 at Bhimavaram in present-day <\/span><b>Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he became involved in <\/span><b>opposing the British in response to the 1882 Madras Forest Act,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which effectively <\/span><b>restricted the free movement of Adivasis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (tribal communities) in their forest habitats and <\/span><b>prevented them from practicing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a traditional <\/span><b>form of agriculture known as \u2018Podu\u2019.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising discontent towards the British led to the <\/span><b>Rampa Rebellion of 1922,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which he played a major part as a leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mustering a force combined of Adivasis, farmers and sympathizers to their cause, he <\/span><b>engaged in guerilla campaigns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the British colonial authorities in the <\/span><b>border regions of the Madras Presidency <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">part of the districts of East Godavari and Visakhapatnam (now part of Alluri Sitharama Raju district).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was <\/span><b>nicknamed &#8220;Manyam Veerudu&#8221; (Hero of the Jungle) by local villagers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for his heroic exploits.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alluri <\/span><b>adopted aspects from the Non-cooperation movement,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as promoting temperance, and the boycott of colonial courts in favour of local justice, administered by panchayat courts, to attract people&#8217;s support.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Although the movement died out in early 1922,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it had reached the plains area by then, as he was<\/span><b> involved in the propagation of some of its methods among the hill people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to raise their political consciousness, and desire for change.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These actions <\/span><b>caused him to be put under the surveillance of police<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from around February of that year, although the fact that he was using them as a camouflage to foment armed uprising seems to have not been recognized by either the movement or the political leadership of the British.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After putting up a massive effort for nearly two years, the <\/span><b>British finally managed to capture Alluri <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the forests of Chintapalle; he was then <\/span><b>tied to a tree and executed by shooting on 7 May 1924 i<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n the village of Koyyuru.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>tomb <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of him currently lies in the village of<\/span><b> Krishnadevipeta, near Visakhapatnam.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heroic efforts of young Alluri in <\/span><b>fighting an all-out war without any state powers,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against one of the most powerful empires have been recognised by all. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">British Government<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">grudgingly acknowledged him <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">powerful tactician of the Guerrilla warfare <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which lasted for nearly two years, the fact that they had to spend over 40 lakhs in those days to defeat him.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/modi-govt-has-emulated-alluri-sitaramarajus-ideals-by-making-draupadi-murmu-as-president-rajnath-singh\/article69773731.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alluri Sitaram Raju was an Indian revolutionary who waged an armed campaign against British colonial rule in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":53773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1364,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-53606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-alluri-sitaram-raju","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}