Person · hockey captain & Adivasi leader
Jaipal Singh Munda
Also known as Marang Gomke
Jaipal Singh Munda (3 January 1903-20 March 1970) was an Adi Munda from Takra village in Khunti, Oxford-educated at St John's College, captain of the Indian hockey team that won the Amsterdam Olympic gold on 26 May 1928 — India's first ever Olympic team-sport gold — and the founder of the Adivasi Mahasabha (1938) and the Jharkhand Party (1949) that first demanded a separate state of Jharkhand carved out of southern Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. In the Constituent Assembly from 1946, he moved the only Adivasi-authored amendments to the Fifth and Sixth Schedules on tribal autonomy. Elected four times to the Lok Sabha, he lived long enough to see the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act strengthened but not the state itself, which was created thirty years after his death.
- Date
- 1903–1970
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Patron dynasty
- Oxford / Jharkhand Party
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
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- BirthUlihatu / Khunti
Jaipal Singh Munda was born on 3 January 1903 at Takra village in Khunti district, in the Munda country of southern Chotanagpur. The village of Ulihatu that already stands in this repository as the birthplace of Birsa Munda is less than twenty kilometres away; the two Munda leaders came from the same clan network. Educated at the German Lutheran mission school at Burju and at St Paul's College Ranchi before Oxford, he carried the Khunti Munda political tradition from Birsa's ulgulan into Constituent-Assembly-era Adivasi self-rule politics and the demand for a separate state of Jharkhand.
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