Lakshmana was born in Sindhur village in a Kannada speaking family, which is now in Jath taluk of
Sangli district in Indian state of
Maharashtra. The sindhur village is in border of Karnataka and Maharashtra, which is mostly populated by Kannada speaking people. During the time when
Mahatma Gandhi's
Non-cooperation movement was spreading across India, Lakshmana started his own struggle against the British by forming a band of men to loot the tax money collected by the government treasury and distribute it among the populace. In 1922, he was shot dead by the British in a sting operation, while dining at the home of a British informant, in a shot to the head by British snipers. ==In popular culture==