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In which year was the tribal leader Birsa Munda born?Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa Munda, a folk hero of tribal resistance, belonged to which tribe?Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa Munda's slogan 'Abua raj ete jana...' demanded what?Read the answer and worked solution →What title meaning 'father of earth' did the Mundas give Birsa?Read the answer and worked solution →The Munda uprising led by Birsa towards 1900 is known by which name, meaning Great Tumult?Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa Munda died in jail in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →On which date is Janjatiya Gaurav Divas observed in memory of Birsa Munda?Read the answer and worked solution →The faith Birsa Munda founded after leaving school was called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Munda custom decided Birsa's name?Read the answer and worked solution →What reward did the colonial administration announce for capturing Birsa Munda?Read the answer and worked solution →Where was Birsa Munda arrested on 3 February 1900?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act of 1908 prohibit?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1895 Birsa urged his people to worship one God and give up worship of what?Read the answer and worked solution →What name did Birsa take when he converted to Christianity at the mission school?Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa's first schooling at Salga was under which teacher?Read the answer and worked solution →Where were Birsa's guerillas defeated by the troops of Fobes and Streattfield?Read the answer and worked solution →Mahasweta Devi's novel Aranyer Adhikar is based on whose life?Read the answer and worked solution →What instruction did Birsa give the raiyats, or tenant farmers, in 1895?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did tribal lands pass to outsiders in Chhotanagpur?Read the answer and worked solution →The Santhal rebellion of 1855 is also known by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →On what date did the Santhal rebellion begin?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two brothers are best known as leaders of the Santhal rebellion?Read the answer and worked solution →The Santhal rebellion is remembered on 30 June in Jharkhand as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Sidhu and Kanhu claimed to have been visited by which spirit before the revolt?Read the answer and worked solution →In Santhal accounts, who were the 'dikkus' that the rebels meant to drive out?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1832 the East India Company demarcated which region and invited Santals to settle there?Read the answer and worked solution →The Santal population in the settled area grew from 3,000 in 1838 to about how many in 1851?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Santals suffer at the hands of mahajans before the rebellion?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker called the Santhal rising India's first organised 'mass revolution'?Read the answer and worked solution →What title did each of the four Santal brothers take as rebel leaders?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In which year was the tribal leader Birsa Munda born?

  1. 1857
  2. 1875
  3. 1885
  4. 1895
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Correct answer: B. 1875

1. Birsa Munda was born on 15 November 1875. 2. He belonged to the Munda tribe and led a movement in the late 19th century. 3. 1857 is the year of the great revolt, and 1895 is when he began preaching, so they do not fit his birth. _Source: Wikipedia, Birsa Munda, Early life_

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Birsa Munda, a folk hero of tribal resistance, belonged to which tribe?

  1. Santal
  2. Bhil
  3. Munda
  4. Gond
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Correct answer: C. Munda

1. Birsa led a tribal millenarian movement in the Bengal Presidency. 2. He belonged to the Munda tribe, which is also his surname. 3. The Santals had their own rebellion in 1855; the Bhils and Gonds were not part of his movement. _Source: Wikipedia, Birsa Munda, Lead section_

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Birsa Munda's slogan 'Abua raj ete jana...' demanded what?

  1. Higher wages for all farm labourers
  2. End of the queen's rule, Munda rule instead
  3. Free schools in every tribal village
  4. Return of all missionaries to Europe
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Correct answer: B. End of the queen's rule, Munda rule instead

1. The slogan means 'Let the kingdom of the queen be ended and our kingdom be established'. 2. It threatened the British Raj and called for Munda self-rule. 3. It said nothing about wages, schools or missionaries leaving. _Source: Wikipedia, Birsa Munda, Tribal movement_

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