Kharsawan massacre

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Kharsawan Massacre
Location Kharsawan State, Dominion of India (now in Seraikela Kharsawan, Jharkhand)
Date1 January 1948
Target Adivasi protesters
Attack type
 Mass murder
Deaths35 (official figure)
Perpetrators Orissa Military Police

The Kharsawan massacre (1 January 1948) was a massacre of Adivasis by the Orissa Military Police in erstwhile Kharsawan State in the newly independent Dominion of India, in what is now Jharkhand, India.

Police fired on a crowd of around 50,000 mostly Adivasi civilians in the market of Kharsawan, many of whom had gathered there to protest against the accession of the princely state to India in favor of a separate Adivasi state within India. There is no consensus over the number of casualties. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The Orissa government declared 35 deaths. [6]

The BJP regimes have commemorated this event to honour the tribals who were killed in the incident. The current Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren has promised to provide jobs to the families of the people killed. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kharsawan Massacre of 1948: A Tragic Chapter in Jharkhand's History". CivilsDaily. 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  2. ↑ Kiro, Santosh (2020-09-15). The Life and Times of Jaipal Singh Munda: The Life and Times of Jaipal Singh Munda: Remembering Jaipal Singh Munda, the Tribal Leader (in Hindi). Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN   978-93-5266-943-1.
  3. ↑ Kumar, Nirdosh (2019-07-04). THE MAKING OF ADIVASI MAHASABHA. Book Rivers. ISBN   978-93-88727-08-2.
  4. ↑ Pankaj, Ashwini Kumar (2017-06-01). ADIVASIDOM : Selected writings & speeches of Jaipal Singh Munda. Pyara Kerketta Foundation. ISBN   978-93-81056-70-7.
  5. ↑ Stuligross, David Patrick (2001). A Piece of Land to Call One's Own: Multicultural Federalism and Institutional Innovation in India. University of California, Berkeley.
  6. ↑ Sengupta, Arjun (2024-01-01). "Remembering independent India's 'Jallianwala Bagh': The Kharsawan massacre of 1948". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2024-10-27. To date, there is no consensus regarding just how many lives were lost in the massacre. The then Orissa government confirmed only 35 dead, a number which was published in The Statesman two days later — the headline read '35 Adibasis Killed in Kharsavan'.
  7. ↑ Basu, I. (2024). Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand. Oxford University Press. p. 161. ISBN   978-0-19-888467-5 . Retrieved 2024-10-31.

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