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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''B. Srinivasa Rao''' was an [[India]]n politician. He was born in April 10, 1907.<ref name=tnmarx>''Marxist''. [http://marxist.tncpim.org/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF-%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81-%E0%AE%B5/ பி.எஸ்.ஆரின் நூற்றாண்டு: வாழ்வும் பணியும்]</ref> B. Srinivasa Rao was a member of the [[Congress Socialist Party]] and the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=absr/> He hailed from present-day [[Karnataka]], but moved to [[Tamil Nadu]] and became a peasant organiser there.<ref name=absr>{{cite book|title=History of People and Their Environs: Essays in Honour of Prof. B.S. Chandrababu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crxUQR_qBXYC&pg=PA457|year=2011|publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam|isbn=978-93-80325-91-0|pages=417, 457–458}}</ref><ref name="Windmiller2011bsr"/> He was an associate of [[S.V. Ghate]] and [[P. Jeevanandham]], and was one of the nine founding members of the Tamil Nadu unit of CPI.<ref name=absr/><ref name="Krishnan">{{cite book|author=N. Rama Krishnan|title=P. Ramamurti A Centenary Trubute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0zotIMCbjwC&pg=PA46|publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam|isbn=978-81-89909-33-8|pages=46, 61}}</ref> He played an important role in the Tamil peasant movement from 1935 onward, in spite of not knowing [[Tamil language]] upon his arrival in the region.<ref name=absr/> As of 1935 he was the secretary of the Congress Socialist Party in Madras.<ref name=absr/> B. Srinivasa Rao was jailed for having distributed leaflets calling for boycott to the [[King George V]] Silver Jubilee celebration.<ref name=absr/> After his release from prison he worked with P. Jeevanandham and P. Ramamurthi in setting up various [[trade union]]s.<ref name=absr/> According to [[P. Ramamurthi]], he founded the peasants and agricultural labour movement in [[Thanjavur District]] as "[h]e toured the district for months, lived with the peasants and agricultural labourers, ate in their houses and built a strong movement."<ref name="Rāmamūrtti1987">{{cite book|author=Pi Rāmamūrtti|title=The Freedom Struggle and the Dravidian Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHduAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Orient Longman|isbn=978-0-86131-769-1|page=107}}</ref><br />
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He managed the monthly publication of CPI 1938-1939.<ref name="Windmiller2011bsr"/> Upon the outbreak of [[World War II]], he was arrested under the Defense of India Rules for having made anti-war speeches.<ref name=absr/><ref name="Krishnan"/> He served as Joint Secretary of the [[All India Kisan Sabha]] 1954-1957.<ref name="Windmiller2011bsr">{{cite book|author=Marshall Windmiller|title=Communism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA389|year=2011|publisher=University of California Press|page=389, 392, 542|id=GGKEY:NSY99CAKNFU}}</ref> He was elected to the CPI National Council at the 1958 Amritsar Party Congress.<ref name="Windmiller2011bsr"/><br />
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He died in September 30, 1961.<ref name=tnmarx/><br />
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