Explanation
Birsa also wanted people to once again work on their land, settle down and cultivate their fields. What worried British officials most was the political aim of the Birsa movement, for it wanted to drive out missionaries, moneylenders, Hindu landlords, and the government and set up a Munda Raj with Birsa at its head. The movement identified all these forces as the cause of the misery the Mundas were suffering. The land policies of the British were destroying their traditional land system, Hindu landlords and moneylenders were taking over their land, and missionaries were criticising their traditional culture.
He was arrested on 3 March 1900 in Jamkopai forest, Chakradharpur while he was sleeping along his tribal guerrilla army which was fighting against British forces. About 460 tribal people were arrested of which one was given capital punishment, 39 were awarded for transportation for life and 23 for 14 years of jail. Birsa Munda died in Ranchi Jail on 9 June 1900.
The Onge are one of the Andamanese indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, they are a designated Scheduled Tribe of India.
Which of the following language/s is spoken by Munda tribes?
The process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter is called?
Munda tribe mainly inhabit which of the following regions?
Which of the following is the nutrient that is added to the soil due to slash and burn technique?
In shifting agriculture, after two or three years of producing vegetable and grain crops on cleared land, the migrants abandon it for another plot. Trees, bushes and forests are cleared by slashing, and the remaining vegetation is burnt. The ashes add potash to the soil. Then the seeds are sown after the rains.
Patar, Mahali, Kampat are the subgroups of which of the following tribes?
Both the statements are true but statement II is not correct explanation for the first.
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