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Brothers... in arms, and at it too!
Our struggle for independence may have been marked by men who mobilized avant-garde means of protest (the British probably still wonder how they gave in to nonviolence!), but even the sacrifices of the ones who chose to give the trader-trespassers a thorough scruff shake is oft -told and extolled!
One such is the saga of Santhal rebel leaders, Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu who shook the ground beneath the feet of the British long before the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny stymied them. Hailing from what is now the largest tribal community of India, these two lion-hearted youths, on 30th June 1855,
pledged rebellion against the oppression of the colonialists and their money-grubbing operatives. Rounding up a massive rally of their community members in Bhognadih village in present-day Jharkhand, the Hul (Santhal Rebellion) was the tipping point of simmering dissent against the invaders’ inhuman exploitation of the natives. Undaunted in the face of merciless might, the tribe’s valour is recounted in the Time Annals of Rural Bengal thus: “So long as their (Santals’) drum went beating, they went on fighting to the last man”.
Spread across the eastern parts of India, Santhals believe in no caste distinctions or idol worship and with a language that bears a script common with that of the Indus Valley, their historical extent and relevance for the subcontinent cannot be missed. Their leftist leanings, stemming from the discontent against the rich money- lending classes under the Raj, may have veered out of control in Naxal jingoism, but on the 151st anniversary of Hul, it’ll be the true spirit of freedom, as inspired by Sidhu- Kanhu, that’ll fly high once again.
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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Brothers... in arms, and at it too!
Our struggle for independence may have been marked by men who mobilized avant-garde means of protest (the British probably still wonder how they gave in to nonviolence!), but even the sacrifices of the ones who chose to give the trader-trespassers a thorough scruff shake is oft -told and extolled!
One such is the saga of Santhal rebel leaders, Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu who shook the ground beneath the feet of the British long before the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny stymied them. Hailing from what is now the largest tribal community of India, these two lion-hearted youths, on 30th June 1855,
pledged rebellion against the oppression of the colonialists and their money-grubbing operatives. Rounding up a massive rally of their community members in Bhognadih village in present-day Jharkhand, the Hul (Santhal Rebellion) was the tipping point of simmering dissent against the invaders’ inhuman exploitation of the natives. Undaunted in the face of merciless might, the tribe’s valour is recounted in the Time Annals of Rural Bengal thus: “So long as their (Santals’) drum went beating, they went on fighting to the last man”.
Spread across the eastern parts of India, Santhals believe in no caste distinctions or idol worship and with a language that bears a script common with that of the Indus Valley, their historical extent and relevance for the subcontinent cannot be missed. Their leftist leanings, stemming from the discontent against the rich money- lending classes under the Raj, may have veered out of control in Naxal jingoism, but on the 151st anniversary of Hul, it’ll be the true spirit of freedom, as inspired by Sidhu- Kanhu, that’ll fly high once again.
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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