On flipping through the pages of history, one finds that the peasants have always been at the receiving end. Almost everyone — right from the kings, or ‘mansabdars’ (local zamindar), or government officials, or, for that matter, the contractors, traders, upper caste migrants and even the police — have found them to be easy targets for harassment.
During the British regime, the plight of the tribal peasants from the Gudem and Rampa areas was no different.
Located in a remote corner of the Eastern Ghats, the two regions, basically inhabited by the Koya and Konda Reddi tribes, spanning over 20,000 square miles, were once a part of the Greater Visakhapatnam district.
