An enigmatic tribal icon from the flip of the final century all of the sudden turns into the toast of all political events. why? as a result of adivasi votes are essential in a spate of upcoming elections
Kolkata,ISSUE DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | UPDATED: Nov 25, 2022 19:24 IST
Left: PM Narendra Modi pays tribute to Birsa Munda at Parliament House (Photo: ANI) | Right: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on the icon’s start anniversary celebration in Jhargram, Nov. 15
LAND, FOREST, IDENTITY, FAITH: The themes that relate to India’s tribal communities appear as historical and unchanged because the jungles of Chhotanagpur the place, on a monsoon-soaked evening in 1895, a 21-year-old youth named Birsa Munda skilled an epiphany. It was the onset of a remarkable story; an inflection level in Adivasi historical past. The one change that got here with electoral democracy is that identification is now additionally political—within the occasion politics sense. For a person who’s a totemic determine of insurrection for Adivasis—certainly, of armed resistance to exploitation by all outsiders—it’s ironic how each occasion is scrambling for a chunk of Birsa.
Edited By:
Aditya Mohan Wig
Published On:
Nov 25, 2022
