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AP Personalities, Freedom Fighters, Poets and Reformers · Chapter 18
17 | Ponaka Kanakamma and the Nellore Salt Satyagraha

The Ministry of Culture's Nellore Salt Satyagraha account names Ponaka Kanakamma among participants and describes women mobilising at coastal villages, making salt to defy colonial law. The account offers a grounded local example of women's collective action, not a lone-hero anecdote. A candidate should pair Kanakamma with Nellore and civil disobedience in 1930. Her name appears with spelling variations such as Ponaka and Ponoka; treat transliteration carefully.

The coastal setting matters: producing salt from seawater made the law-breaking visible and understandable. Compare that method with Duggirala's municipal-tax protest and Alluri's armed forest rebellion. All are anti-colonial, but the grievances and tactics differ. A source may list several villages and participants; for a standard MCQ, the most durable association is enough. When a question asks for an exact event sequence, use the cited account rather than guessing from the national Dandi March alone.

Worked example: Ponaka Kanakamma is linked to women's mobilisation in the Nellore Salt Satyagraha context. To identify her among several reformers, combine person, locality and specific movement. A question about the 1930s protest period differs from one about post-independence welfare work. Use a dated district or national archive source for a precise event claim.

Active recall: What act challenged the Salt law in Nellore? Pair Kanakamma with the movement and region.

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