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True Valor
He tells an entire labouring population to stop turning up for work, and is arrested inside the month.
The strangest thing about it is that they would not fight.
Every other movement of this kind, in that country and that decade, took up weapons.
Birsa Munda's Ulgulan, a few years earlier, had gone at police stations with bows. The Tana Bhagats did something harder and much less usual. They stopped working.
Jatra Bhagat, Jatra Oraon, was born in September 1888.
At Chingri Nawatoli, in what is now Gumla district, Jharkhand. Son of Kodal Oraon and Libri. He was an Oraon, of the Chotanagpur plateau.
He died in 1916, in the same village he was born in, aged about twenty-eight.
The documentary record of his personal life is genuinely thin. Thinner than for most figures on this shelf.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.