Tag: colonialism and tribal societies

Komaram Bheem was born into a family of Gond Tribals in the forests of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district in the state of Telangana in 1901.

Raju was eventually trapped by the British in the forests of Chintapalli then tied to a tree and shot dead with a rifle in Mampa village.

Rama Chandra Raju was the uncle of Alluri Seetha Rama Raju.

Alluri Rama Raju's father was a photographer.

When Komaram Bheem was barely 15 years old his father was killed by forest officials for asserting Adivasis' rights.

Siddhiki, a jagirdar was an informer of Nizam who took away Bheem's land.

Komaram Bheem openly fought against the ruling Nizam government in a guerrilla campaign. Which he started from Jodeghat. He defied courts, laws, and any other form of Nizam authority, living off the sustenance of the forest. He took up arms against Nizam Nawab's soldiers, and fought Babi Jhari until his last breath.

In the context of the Nizam's rule in Hyderabad, Bambram was a specific type of tax or levy collected from the peasantry.

Birsa Munda was a young freedom fighter and a tribal leader who belonged to the Munda tribe. He was involved in the popular agitation movement against the unjust laws enforced upon the traditional rights of the Mundas in the protected forest in the Porhat area. He revolted against the dual challenge of agrarian breakdown and cultural change.

The Kol Rebellion (1831-1832) was triggered by a combination of factors including British administrative changes, land revenue policies, and the exploitation by outsiders (dikus) supported by local administration.