Freedom fighters · Independence struggle · 1875–1900

Birsa Munda

Adivasi leader who fought colonial land grab and missionary-state pressure in the Chota Nagpur region. Died in jail in his twenties.

Birsa's Ulgulan was a freedom struggle from the forest floor: land, dignity, and refusal to be erased. Independent India still fails many Adivasi communities on the same axis.

Remembering him means remembering that freedom was never only a coastal elite story.

Why on this wall

Adivasi resistance inside the independence story.

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