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07/07/22 05:50 AM IST

Mangarh hillock in Rajasthan

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  • A team from National Monuments Authority lead by Shri Tarun Vijay, Chairman, National Monuments Authority, submitted a report on declaring  Mangarh hillock in Rajasthan as a monument of National Importance in the year of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Mangarh Hillock 
  • 1500 Bhil tribal freedom fighters were brutally killed by the British army on 17th November 1913. 
  • As 1,500 followers of social reformer Govind Guru, a banjara (Gypsy) from Vedsa village near Dungarpur in Rajasthan, were felled on Mangadh Hill by British forces.
  • The guru had launched a movement called "Bhagat movement" in the late 19th century among Bhil tribes, which aimed to 'emancipate' them by prescribing, among other things, adherence to vegetarianism and abstinence from all kinds of intoxicants.
  • Inspired by the guru, the Bhils then rose against oppressive policies of the British and forced farm labour imposed by the local princely rulers of Banswara, Santrampur, Dungarpur and Kushalgarh.
Source- PIB 

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