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| | #REDIRECT [[Tilka Majhi]] |
| {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}'''Tilka Manjhi''' was an Indian freedom fighter the first [[Adivasi]] leader from [[Manjhi (tribe)|Manjhi]] Community. Who was considered as second fighter after '''[[Maharana Pratap]]'''. He took up arms against the [[United Kingdom|British]] in the 1784, around 70 years before [[Mangal Pandey]]. He organized the Adivasis to form an armed group to fight against the resource grabbing and exploitation of British.<ref name="Madras Courier 2018">{{cite web | title=Tilka Manjhi: India's First and Forgotten Freedom Fighter | website=Madras Courier | date=2018-03-07 | url=https://madrascourier.com/biography/tilka-manjhi-indias-first-and-forgotten-freedom-fighter/ | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
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| |name=Baba Tilka Majhi
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| |title=Second Freedom Fighter
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| |birth_date=11 February 1750
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| |birth_place=Sultanganj, Bihar
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| == History ==
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| [[File:Tilka_Majhi.jpg|thumb|Statue of Tilka Majhi, Dumka, Jharkhand]]
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| The year 1784 is considered as the first armed rebellion against the British and was the beginning of '''Paharia.''' It was due to great famine in 1770 and the consequences of [[List of East India Company directors|Court of Directors]] orders influenced by [[William Pitt the Younger]] -- Court of Director issued ten year of the settlement of [[Zamindari]] and later in 1800 - this resulted in minimum chance to negotiate between local Zamdindars and Santhal villagers. Baba Tilka Majhi attacked [[Augustus Cleveland]], British commissioner [lieutenant], and Rajmahal with a [[Gulel]] (a weapon similar to slingshot) who died later. The British surrounded the [[Tilapore forest]] from which he operated but he and his men held them at bay for several weeks. When he was finally caught in 1784, he was tied to the tail of a horse and dragged all the way to the collector's residence at [[Bhagalpur]], [[Bihar, India]]. There, his lacerated body was hung from a Banyan tree.<ref name="India Study Channel 2014">{{cite web | title=Biography of Tilka Majhi (1750 – 1785) | website=India Study Channel | date=2014-10-07 | url=https://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/165593-Biography-of-Tilka-Majhi-1750-1785.aspx | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
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| A statue to him was erected at the spot where he was hanged, after [[Partition of India|Indian independence]], which is the nearby residence of S.P. Bhagalpur and named after him. Also, the Bhagalpur University was renamed after him - [[Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University]].<ref name="Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University – TMBU – Bhagarlpur – Bihar – TMBU Official website 1960">{{cite web | title=TILKA MANJHI BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY AT A GLANCE – Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University – TMBU – Bhagarlpur – Bihar | website=Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University – TMBU – Bhagarlpur – Bihar – TMBU Official website | date=1960-07-12 | url=http://tmbuniv.ac.in/tilka-manjhi-bhagalpur-university-at-a-glance/ | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref> Another statue was established in [[Dumka]] town, Jharkhand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070815/asp/jharkhand/story_8195948.asp|title=Identity crisis for freedom fighter|last=Goutam Sarkar|date=August 15, 2007|website=telegraphindia.com|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref>
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| == References ==
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| ==External links==
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| [[Category:People from Bihar]]
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| [[Category:Indian rebels]]
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