rajamohan Reward Points : 700 Member Since : Wednesday, February 11, 2009
the historic Nin cooperation movement in andhra was a great land mark in the indian freedom struggle. it was unfortunately stopped by congress leaders who were against the farmers interest. Information on the struggle is most welcome.
Posted On : 2/2/2009 7:59:19 AM
Babulal Tiwari [Guru] Reward Points : 51700 Member Since : Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mon Cooperation Movement was at its greatest strength in the Andhra delta region. Outstanding leaders like Konda Venkatapayya, A Kaleswara Rao, T Prakasam and Pattabhi Sitaramayya led rthe movement. Among the highlights of the Andhra upsurge, as part of the freedom movement, people of the Palnadu area of Guntur district launched a non-cooperation movement. The movement was launched to resent the attitude of the then government, in preventing them from grazing their cattle in the adjacent fields as the area was in the grip of draught during then The people refused to cooperate with the officials and imposed a social boycott. When reedom fighters like Unnava Lakshminarayana and Vedantam Narasimhachari visited the area for assessment of the situation they were arrested. Resenting the police action, people organised a successful bandh in the area for a week. The incidents that took place at Pedanandipadu in Bapatla taluk of Guntur district during the no-tax campaign as part of freedom struggleeven rocked the British empire.