Alluri Sitaramaraju- Manyam veerudu

 

Alluri sitaramaraju was born on  4 th July 1897/98  in Andhra Pradesh.

Alluri Sitaramaraju led the Rampa Rebellion which was launched in 1922. 

He was referred as Manyam Veerudu i.e., Hero of Jungle by locals.

The British government brought Madras Forest Act preventing Adivasis from cultivating in forests which they were doing from generations together,without disturbing the ecosystem by  cultivating in small forest lands in forest.

Basically  the changes meant that, they (the adivasis) face starvation which automatically  make them engage in any kind of job for their liveluhood and survival forcing  them to engage in arduous and exploitable laborious system, which was used by government and contractors for road construction etc., 

The inhuman attitude of Britishers flared up resent and descent in innocent advasis.

Quiet perturbed by the plight of adivasis Alluri seetaramaraju decided to stand by them to fight against draculan law . 

His concern for poor,deprived classes and his humanity , simple living attracted so many, made him hero of (Manyam) Forest.

In the backdrop of, widespread discontent  towards British colonial Rule  and start of non cooperation  movement, He lead the troops . 

During this raids he used to target police stations and acquired fire arms and ammunition  and weaponry. 

Revolutionary freedom fighter, Alluri Sitaramaraju , gave sleepless nights to British Raj . The unparalleled courage and effort created jitters in british police and Army cadres. His guerrilla  war between  1922 to 1924 has lead to  most intense war which can be measured with the fact that British Government had spent 40 laks in those days to defeat  Rampa rebellion.

At 27 years, Sitarama Raju became a martyr falling to the British bullets.

In 1924, he was trapped in koyyuru village of chintapalli forests. He was captured, tied to a tree and summarily  executed by firing .

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

The towering personality of Subhas Chandra Bose and his capabilities to muster resources to fight for Freedom Struggle made him Hero of many Indians. His radical approach was instrumental  in faster independence  to India.

Subhas Chandra Bose was born in Cuttack, Odisha on January 23, 1897. His father was Janakinath Bose a Great Lawyer and Mother Prabhavathi Dutt Housewife, Pious and religious. 

Subhas Chandra Bose studied in Calcutta  at the presidency college  and Scottish Churches College. Later he has gone to University of Cambridge in England to study &  prepare for Indian Civil Services. He passed Civil Services examination  and secured 4 the Rank,  but  he was deeply disturbed by Jalian Wala Bagh massacre  and resigned his candidacy to return to india to participate  in Freedom Movement in India in 1921.

SUBHAS PARTICIPATION IN FREEDOM  STRUGGLE :

Bose joined the non co-operation movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. As per the advise of Gandhiji he worked under Chittaranjan Das a famous and active leader. There Bose became a youth educator, journalist and commander of Bengal Congress volunteers.His activities led to his imprisonment  in 1921. In 1924 he was appointed  as CEO of Calcutta municipal corporation , Das as Mayor. Soon he was arrested  and deported to Burma' for his secret  activities with revolutionaries.On his return he has taken over Bengal Congress and was arrested several times . Bose  has fallen ill because of Tuberculosis  and has gone to Europe for treatment. During that period he met so many important European  leaders. He returned from Europe in 1936  and was rearrested. Bose was critical of Gandhiji's  conservative economic approach  and non-confrontational  attitude. In 1939 he defeated Gandhi's  rival for congress president ship.

Because of lack of support  from  Gandhiji  he resigned and formed Forward Block,hoping to unite radicals. But in july 1940 he was incarcerated.He has gone on fast unto death in prison as he was not intrested  to stay in prison  during  that crucial  period. He was released .Eventhough he was closely watched by British escaped from his house and via Kabul (Afghanistan) and reached Germany.

FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM OUTSIDE INDIA

His earlier stay in Europe  has developed good relationship with leaders like Mussolini etc., which helped him to gain foot hold and start his armed battle from off shore to gain independence to India.

In Germany in the special bureau for India under Adam von Trott Zuma Solz , Bose formed Azad Hind Radio in January 1942, speaking in English, Hindi,Bengali,Tamil, Telugu  Gujarati  etc., 

In 1943 he travelled to Japan via submarines and took leadership of indian independence movement  in East Asia with the aid and influence  of Japan and formed well trained army of 40000 by name Indian National Army. 

INA was first formed by Mohan Singh and Japanese Major Iwaichi Fujiwara and comprised indian prisoners of war of British  indian Army captured by japan in Malayan.

The army was declared Bose's Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind The provisional  Govt of Free India.

Once INA was taken over by Netaji more and more civilian volunteers from Burma, Malayan, India joined INA.

IN  1943, INA was under provisional Azad Hind Government, which produced it's n

 currency counts and civil code.

To free India from the Clutches of British fighting against allies, taking the side of germany, Japan etc. , 

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Bose advances to Rangoon,Myanmar, after the capture of andaman and nicobar islands  making his way into kohima and Imphal.

In 1945 british indian army retaliated  and captured Manipur, Imphal kohima by killing half of Japanese army and many in INA army. INA was driven out of Malayan and Singapore.

On August 18th, 1945 Bose is said to be  died of third degree burns due to plane crash at Taiwan , as he wanted to reach Soviet Union.

Many people dispute this theory , did not believe that Crash has occurred and would return to India. 

The court Marshall of INA Major resulted in great sympathy and revolution.

It was Netaji  whose inspiration prompted Bombay Mutiny, Sailors of Royal indian Navy mutiny spread to Calcutta  and more than 20, 000 sailors participated.

As Indian Freedom struggle started with 1857 Rani Jhansi Lakshmi Bai and ended with Netaji.

The Birthday  of Netaji 23rd January is celebrated as Parakram Divas.