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The tribal population of the country was greatly affected by the oppressive  colonial forest laws and settlement operations meant for surveys and census by the British anthropologists, cartographers etc. This led to a string of movements which were affected by one cause or the other. Bhagirath Manjhi, a resident of the Taradih village of the Godda district of Jharkhand was leader of one such movement.




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Get to know about some Rebellion duos who led the revolt against the East India Company and fought for people's land and rights.

*Gems covered in this podcast:


Sindrai and Bindrai (Manki Brothers)
Singee and Kaili Dai
Nilamber and Pitamber
Diva and Kishun Soren
Sido and Kanhu Murmu
Phulo and Jhano Murmu






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"Nachi se banchi!" was Ram Dayal Munda's personal slogan: "Dance to survive!" The most distinguished and erudite Indian Adivasi, or aboriginal inhabitant, of modern times, a proud son of the indigenous Munda tribe that for centuries dominated large tracts of central India and put up fierce resistance to British rule, Ram Dayal Munda never forgot where he came from: tribal dance and music remained his first love, and no one who saw the way he and his tribal dance troupe took over Mumbai's World Social Forum in 2004 with their flutes and drums is likely to forget it.

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Phulo and Jhano belonged to the Murmu clan of the Santhal tribe in Eastern India, today’s Jharkhand. They were no less revolutionaries than their men counterparts.

Their brothers, Sido, Kanhu, Chand and Bhairav were said to have spearheaded the famous 1855 Santhal uprising. It was an uprising against the British inroads into their life especially by encouraging freewheeler businessmen and exploiting moneylenders.



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Two great warriors who fought against the un-acceptable violence done by British rulers and native Kings of the Singhbhum district (Jharkhand)...and raise their voice as “Diva-Kisun Revolt”

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Jaipal Singh Munda was anything but a simple ‘forest dweller’; he was an exceptional man with an extraordinary career. Born a tribal in what is now Jharkhand, he was an Oxford graduate, he qualified as an ICS officer, he was captain of India’s hockey team that won gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he was a teacher in Ghana, a minister in Bikaner, and a representative of India’s tribal population in the Constituent Assembly. It is he who first established the Adivasi Mahasabha in 1938 to fight for a tribal homeland called ‘Jharkhand’.

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