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Today is the Jayanti of Alluri Sitarama Raju, one of the great revolutionaries, who led a tribal uprising against the British in the Agency or Manyam area of Andhra Pradesh, that shook them to the core. Todate an icon in the Telugu states. 
One of the more ignored aspects of the Indian freedom struggle has been the various tribal revolts that broke out against the British rule. Tribals were prohibited from cutting trees for firewood, their traditional Podu cultivation was banned.
. Many protests broke out in the tribal areas of Eastern Indian, notably Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Western Odisha, Bengal, one of the more famous one was that of Birsa Munda in Jharkhand.
