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    The document summarizes the legend of Komaram Bheem, a tribal leader who led a rebellion against the Nizams of Hyderabad in the 1930s-1940s to fight for tribal land rights. One morning in October 1940, armed police surrounded Bheem's village of Jodeghat looking to capture him. When the women spotted the police, they warned the rebels including Bheem. Though outnumbered and poorly armed, Bheem and his men refused the demands to surrender from the local Talukdar. When the Talukdar ordered fire, 15 of Bheem's warriors including Bheem were killed in the ensuing battle. Over 70 years later, the IT

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    The document summarizes the legend of Komaram Bheem, a tribal leader who led a rebellion against the Nizams of Hyderabad in the 1930s-1940s to fight for tribal land rights. One morning in October 1940, armed police surrounded Bheem's village of Jodeghat looking to capture him. When the women spotted the police, they warned the rebels including Bheem. Though outnumbered and poorly armed, Bheem and his men refused the demands to surrender from the local Talukdar. When the Talukdar ordered fire, 15 of Bheem's warriors including Bheem were killed in the ensuing battle. Over 70 years later, the IT

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    The document summarizes the legend of Komaram Bheem, a tribal leader who led a rebellion against the Nizams of Hyderabad in the 1930s-1940s to fight for tribal land rights. One morning in October 1940, armed police surrounded Bheem's village of Jodeghat looking to capture him. When the women spotted the police, they warned the rebels including Bheem. Though outnumbered and poorly armed, Bheem and his men refused the demands to surrender from the local Talukdar. When the Talukdar ordered fire, 15 of Bheem's warriors including Bheem were killed in the ensuing battle. Over 70 years later, the IT

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    ANDHRA PRADESH

    The legend of Komaram Bheem

    S. Harpal Singh
    ADILABAD:, OCTOBER 16, 2013 00:00 IST
    UPDATED: OCTOBER 16, 2013 05:41 IST

    "Thedat...thedat...police vather". The Gond rebels at Jodeghat were jolted out of their sleep
    early that morning in October 1940 as the women came running and shouting to wake them
    up.

    The women, who were out to fetch drinking water , had spotted armed policemen surrounding
    their village as they came looking for Komaram Bheem, the tribal leader who dared to
    question the authority of the Nizams of Hyderabad. It was three years since Bheem had been
    leading a rebellion on the question of rights of tribal people to pastures and the lands being
    tilled by them in the forests .

    Bheem, who was camping at Jodeghat with a handful of his warriors, were instantly up and got
    ready by arming themselves . Most of the rebels could manage to get hold of axes, sickles and
    bamboo sticks. Asifabad Talukdar Abdul Sattar, a personification of the Nizams’ tyrannytried
    to get Bheem to surrender through emissaries.

    After refusal for the third time by Bheem to submit himself , Sattar ordered to open fire . The
    tribal rebels could do nothing but went down fighting. "As many as 15 warriors besides Bheem
    attained martyrdom. The incident plunged the tribals into gloom on that full moon day,” the
    late Maru master and Bhadu master, the close aides of Bheem, used to say whenever they
    wound up their narrative of the incident. Not many, however, got to see the martyrs as the
    bodies were burnt unceremoniously.
    The ITDA is building a memorial for 15 associates of Bheem at Kerameri. The memorial will be
    inaugurated on October 18 on the 73rd anniversary of that fateful day.

    The ITDA is constructing a memorial for the 15 associates of Komaram Bheem near the
    latter's statue at Jodeghat, the present day Kerameri .

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