Tilka Manjhi                                                                                             

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Context: Nation remembers revolutionary freedom fighter, tribal leader Tilka Manjhi on his 272nd birth anniversary.

About Tilka Manjhi:

• He was an Indian freedom fighter the first Adivasi leader from Paharia(Hill Peoples) Community.
• He organized Adivasis into an army and led the famous Santhal Hool in 1784 against the exploitative British.
• In 1770, there was a severe famine in the Santhal region, he looted the treasury of the Company and distributed it among the poor and needy.
• He attacked Augustus Cleveland, an East India Company administrator and fatally wounded him.
• The British surrounded the Tilapore forest from which he operated but he and his men held them at bay for several weeks.

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