Today is 151st birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, a revered tribal leader and freedom fighter who led the Munda Rebellion against British colonial rule. Birsa Munda was born on 15 November 1875 , 18 years after India’s first war of independence in 1857 , into a Munda tribal family in Ulihatu, a village in present-day Khunti district of Jharkhand. His parents were Sugana Munda and Karmi Hatu. At the time of his birth, the region was part of the Chotanagpur division of Bihar. His birth anniversary, November 15, is marked as Jharkhand’s Statehood Day. Birsa converted into a Christian to receive education from the German Protestant Mission School (called Lutheran Mission School) in Chaibasa (in the state of Jharkhand).He later distanced himself from Christianity. In the 1890s, Birsa Munda started the Ulgulan movement and in 1894, Birsa declared his opposition to the British and the Dikus (outsiders) and thus began the Munda Ulgulan. Birsa also started his own sect called ...
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