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The birth anniversary of the iconic tribal leader Birsa Munda is observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas by government

About Birsa Munda

• He was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe.
• He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj
• Revolt areas : Concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Tamar, Sarwada and Bandgaon.
• New Faith : ‘Birsait’(Mundas, Oraons, and Kharias)
• Cause : Unfair land grabbing practices by colonial and local authorities that demolished the tribal conventional land system
• Known for challenging the Christian missionaries and revolting against the conversion activities along with the Munda and Oraon communities.
• Revolt : Ulgulan movement
• Slogan: Bua raj ete jana, maharani raj tundu jana (“Let the kingdom of the queen be ended and our kingdom be established”)