Person · Paika Rebellion leader
Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar
Also known as Buxi Jagabandhu
Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar (c.1773 - 24 January 1829), the Paika commander-in-chief of the Khurda royal estate who led the 1817 Paika Rebellion against the British East India Company — among the earliest widespread anti-British armed uprisings in India, pre-dating the 1857 Revolt by 40 years. Born at Rorang in Khurda district, Odisha, Buxi Jagabandhu led the Khurda Paikas (traditional peasant-militia class), the Kondh tribal community and the Mahanadi delta zamindars in the March-August 1817 uprising across coastal Odisha. He surrendered under amnesty in 1825 and died at Barabati Fort imprisonment on 24 January 1829. The 2017 bicentennial Paika Rebellion commemoration and the 2019 Odisha government memorial preserve his legacy.
- Date
- 1773–1829
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (2)
- CampaignCuttack
Buxi Jagabandhu led the 1817 Paika Rebellion from Khurda district (modern district of Khurda, Odisha, adjacent to Cuttack). The uprising captured several British posts across coastal Odisha before being contained by Company reinforcements. Buxi Jagabandhu's imprisonment at Cuttack's Barabati Fort (where he died on 24 January 1829) ties his campaign directly to the Cuttack administrative-military centre of colonial Odisha.
- Court associationVeer Surendra Sai
Veer Surendra Sai's 1827-1864 Sambalpur rebellion extended the earlier 1817 Paika Rebellion of Buxi Jagabandhu into the Sambalpur-Bargarh western Odisha region. Both leaders led chiefly-tribal armed resistance against the British East India Company's annexation of their traditional feudatory estates, with Surendra Sai's 44-year imprisonment-and-resistance campaign making him Odisha's longest-serving political prisoner.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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