Stuartpuram
Village in Andhra Pradesh, India
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Stuartpuram is a village located in the Bapatla district of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is located on the Kolkata–Chennai highway.[1]
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History
The village was named after Harold Stuart. Stuart approached The Salvation Army to reform the nomadic Yerukala tribe, who were labeled as a criminal tribe, by settling them down and the village was built as an establishment to reform them.[1][2][3]
The village is known for being the birthplace of criminal "Tiger" Nageswara Rao.[1][4]
Media portrayal
Stuartapuram has been depicted in Telugu cinema as a mysterious hub of criminal activity in films such as Stuartpuram Police Station (1991), Stuvartpuram Dongalu (1991), and Stuartpuram (2019). Two films about "Tiger" Nageswara Rao specifically were released in 2023: Stuartpuram Donga and Tiger Nageswara Rao. That year, the village put up a banner along State Highway 48 criticizing the negative and steretyped portrayal of their community in the films.[5]
