Remembering Bhagwan Birsa Munda: A freedom Fighter and tribal leader

<span style="color: #222222;">Bhagwan Birsa Munda was a young freedom fighter and a tribal leader, whose spirit of activism in the late nineteenth century, is remembered to be a strong mark of protest against British rule in India.<br />”<br />”Bhagwan Birsa Munda was born on 15th November 1875, in Ulihatu village in the Lohardaga district of the then Bengal Presidency – presently Khunti district of Jharkhand.<br />”<br />”The freedom fighter and tribal leader had spearheaded a tribal religious movement against the British Colonial rule to mark the earliest revolt in the history of the Indian independence movement. He died at the young age of 25, after being arrested from Jamkopai forest in Chakradharpur on 3 February 1900. Birsa Munda died in jail on 9 June 1900.<br />”<br />”Birsa Munda's slogan threatening the British Raj, Abua raj ete jana, maharani raj tundu jana (???? ??? ??? ???, ?????? ??? ?????? ??? ) which means – Let the kingdom of the queen be ended and our kingdom be established, is still remembered in the areas of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.</span><br />

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