- Rampa tribes belong to the hill tracts of Visakhapatnam.
- The Madras government introduced a law making toddy tapping illegal and introducing a toddy tax, this wouldn’t have been a great deal to the Hill tribes, but toddy tapping was part of their culture.
- This led to a full-scale rebellion in early 1879.
- In the aftermath of the rebellion, various conciliatory measures were adopted by the British government.