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{{Infobox person
| name = Laxman Naik
| image = Laxman Nayak 1989 stamp of India.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|11|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tentuligumma, Madras Presidency(Now Boipariguda Block of Koraput District), [[Odisha]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|3|29|1899|11|22|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Brahmampur]] Jail, Odisha, India
}}

'''Laxman Nayak''' or '''Laxman Naik''' (22 November 1899 – 29 March 1943) was a [[tribal]]
civil rights activist of South [[Odisha]] in eastern [[India]]. He belonged to Bhumia tribe of Odisha.<ref>http://odisha.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/Aug2006/engpdf/28-30.pdf</ref>

Nayak, an [[Odia people|Odia]] folk-hero of Koraput of southernmost part of [[Odisha]] and a cult-figure among its tribals, was born in Tentuliguma village of the [[Koraput]] district and his father Padlam Nayak was a tribal chief and 'Mustadaar' under '[[Kingdom of Jeypore|Jeypore Samasthanam]]' in the then [[Madras]] Presidency.

The local administration worked as a subsidiary of the [[UK government|British Government]]. The tribals under their administration were treated badly by revenue officials, forest guides and police constables, and were subjected to [[torture]]. Nayak organised the rebels successfully against exploitation by the officials of Jeypore Samasthanam. This brought him recognition as a potential tribal leader and the National Congress admitted Nayak into its fold. During the course of his training in [[Naupuri]] training centre for Congress workers, Nayak had the opportunity to meet and interact with several Zonal and State level leaders which enabled him to broaden his horizons. His training inculcated in him a spirit for Nationalism and indoctrinated him with the [[Gandhi]]an principles of truth, nonviolence and peaceful non-cooperation with the British Government. He carried a [[Charkha (spinning wheel)|charkha]], with the message of adult education and abstinence from [[Alcohol (drug)|alcohol]] to every tribal household of his area and brought about a total change in the rural scenario. He became the leader of mission in the Congress campaign in the Koraput Sub-division during the first ever election in 1936.

Responding to the call of Mahatma Gandhi, Nayak led a procession on 21 August 1942 and demonstrated peacefully in front of [[Mathili]] Police Station. The police however fired at the demonstrators indiscriminately, which killed forty and injured more than two hundred people. The administration implicated Nayak in a case of murder and the [[capital punishment|death sentence]] was pronounced on him on 13 November 1942. He was hanged on 29 March 1943 in [[Berhampur]] Jail.<ref>[http://orissagov.nic.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/feb-mar-2007/engpdf/page14-15.pdf Laxman Naik - The Immortal Martyr of Quit India Movement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410055229/http://orissagov.nic.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/feb-mar-2007/engpdf/page14-15.pdf |date=10 April 2009 }} [[Govt.]] of [[Odisha]], e-magazine.</ref>

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