Jharkhand

Jharkhand

The name "Jharkhand" means "The Land of Forests Jharkhand accounts for 40% of the mineral resources of India.The population consists of 28% tribal peoples

Famous Personalities From Jharkhand

Tilka Manjhi

Baba Tilka Manjhi was the first Santali leader who took up arms against the British in the 1789, around 100 years before Mangal Pandey. He organized the Santalis to form the Mukti Dal to fight against the resource grabbing and exploitation.

Murmu brothers

Lead by four Murmu brothers, Sindhu, Kanhu, Chand and Bhairav, the Santhal Rebellion was started in 1855 by the Santhal tribes of eastern India against the Britishers. The Santhals lived in areas of present day Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. But the Britishers restricted them to Rajmahal district of Bihar. The Zamindars and local land lords together with Britishers started suppressing the tribal Santhals. High taxes, turning the local people into slaves, sexually harassment of Santhal women, and many other factors, led to the Santhal Uprising in 1855. Although the rebellion was suppressed by Britishers, but they saw bravery and fierceness of Santhal tribal people.

Birsa Munda

Birsa Munda was a tribal leader and a folk hero, belonging to the Munda tribe who was behind the Millenarian movement that rose in the tribal belt of modern day Bihar, and Jharkhand during the British. Died in June 9, 1900

Vir Budhu Bhagat

Freedom Figher from Jharkhand

Jamsetji Tata

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company.

Jaipal Singh Munda

Jaipal Singh Munda was a Munda tribal man, who captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Later he emerged as a sole leader of Adivasi cause and creation of a separate home land for adivasis of central India. As a member of the Constituent Assembly of India he actively campaigned for the rights of the scheduled tribes.

Nirmala Joshi

Nirmala Joshi,(better known as Sister Nirmala), is a Roman Catholic Religious Sister born at Ranchi, Swho succeeded the famed Mother Teresa of Calcutta as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity.

Jahar Dasgupta

Jahar Dasgupta is an eminent and contemporary painter from 21st century India.