writ short note on birsa munda
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◆ Birsa Munda was a young boy who emerged in 1895 as a hero of tribals. He urged Britishers to continue to work on their own land to earn their living and not to move away. This would end all their sufferings.
◆ As the Birsa Movement spread,the popularity of Birsa Munda also increased. He told his people that land policies of British were destroying their traditional land system. He was jailed for 2 years but on his release,He instigated the tribals to attack Zamindars. He raised the white flag as a symbol of Birsa Raj. This movement ended in 1900 with the death of Birsa.
Birsa Munda was a folk hero and a tribal freedom fighter hailing from the Munda tribe. He was a spearhead behind the Millenarian movement that arose in the Bihar and Jharkhand belt in the early 19th century under the British colonisation.