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Alluri Sitarama RajuManyam Veerudu

From August 1922 he led the Rampa rising in the Godavari hill tracts, raiding police stations for arms, until he was captured and shot in May 1924.

4 July 1897 – 7 May 1924

The full life
1Born at Pandrangi, Visakhapatnam district.
2Raid on Chintapalli police station: 22 August 1922.Alluri Sitarama Raju · The British
3Captured and shot near Koyyuru on 7 May 1924.Alluri Sitarama Raju
4India issued a stamp in his memory in 1986.Alluri Sitarama Raju
5Born on 4 July 1897.Alluri Sitarama Raju
6A district of Andhra Pradesh was named after him in 2022.Alluri Sitarama Raju · The people

Sources for these facts

  • David Arnold, ‘Rebellious Hillmen: The Gudem-Rampa Risings, 1839–1924’, Subaltern Studies I (1982)
  • Madras Presidency records on the Rampa rebellion, 1922–24

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