Srikakulam

The northern Andhra city on the Vamsadhara river in Srikakulam district, 110 kilometres north of Visakhapatnam, with a continuous settlement from the Kalinga empire through Eastern Ganga, Vijayanagara, Qutb Shahi and Mughal rule. The 11-century Arasavalli Suryanarayana temple (built by Devendra Varma of the Eastern Ganga dynasty around 1073 CE) is one of only two major Surya temples in Andhra. The 1947 Srikakulam Peasant Movement (CPI-ML Charu Mazumdar's 1960s-70s Naxalite insurgency centre), the April 1958 riot of Konda Dora tribals against forest laws, and the 1968-70 Srikakulam uprising established the Vamsadhara region as a central node in modern Indian radical history. The modern city anchors the Andhra Pradesh textile-and-fisheries belt.