Birsa Munda, an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, was born in Ulihatu, Bengal Presidency, British India, in 1875.
Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero from the Chhotanagpur Plateau area. Birsa Munda established a tribal religious Millenarian Movement in the Bengal Presidency in the nineteenth century (Present-day Jharkhand). He was born on November 15, 1875, in Ulihatu, Bengal Presidency, to Sugana Munda and Karmi Hatu (Present-day Jharkhand).
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