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Symbolizing an "earthquake" that shook the administration, the revolt was led by tribal leader Gunda Dhur to protect indigenous access to 'Jal, Jangal, Zameen', or water, forest, and land resources. https://media.assettype.com/homegrown/2026-08-10/5z3eah1d/urn-cambridge.org-id-binary-alt-20210511144622-30024-mediumThumb-84499fig77.jpg In 1980, Kondapalli Seetharamaiah founded the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War, usually called the People’s War Group (PWG). In June 1980, the PWG sent its first small armed squads across the Godavari into Dandakaranya, the enormous forest belt extending across parts of present-day Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana and Odisha. https://media.assettype.com/homegrown/2026-08-10/prudrviq/images.jpeg The Maoists established what they called “Janatana Sarkars” or people’s governments in areas where the formal state had little presence. They operated courts, collected levies, recruited cadres and maintained armed formations. 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