Rumi Maqui Revolt
Rumi Maqui Revolt
Rumi Maqui Revolt, a peasant uprising in the Lake Titicaca region of the Peruvian southern Andes (1915–1916). On 1 December 1915, a group of several hundred peasants attacked two haciendas owned by prominent landowners in the province of Azángaro. Although the rebels were turned back, with dozens of them shot in the attack or subsequently hunted down, they continued to act throughout 1916. The rebellion gained notoriety in part because of the leadership of an outsider, Teodomiro Gutiérrez Cuevas, a military officer. He was called Rumi Maqui, "Hand of Stone" in Quechua.
The rebels opposed the growth of estates owned by non-Indians. They also expressed their discontent with the monopolization of regional politics by corrupt non-Indians and the undue power of some local authorities. The movement cast its ideology in terms of Incan restoration versus feudalism, thus catching the attention of intellectuals and other Indian rebels in the 1920s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Augusto Ramos Zambrano, Movimientos campesinos de Azángaro (Puno), Rumi Maqui (1985).
Nils Jacobsen, Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780–1930 (1993), esp. pp. 337-345.
Additional Bibliography
Conteras, Carlos. Historia del Perú contemporáneo. Lima: Red Para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú, 1999.
Charles F. Walker