Birsa Munda

✶November 15, 1875

†June 9, 1900

2 candles burning, 7 lit in all

About their life

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement. The revolt mainly concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Tamar, Sarwada and Bandgaon.

Indian tribal freedom fighter (1875–1900)

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