Person · tribal social reformer · India
Rajmohini Devi
A tribal reformer of the Surguja country, active from the 1930s, who walked the villages on padyatra against drink, animal sacrifice and the oppression of women, in a broadly Gandhian idiom.
- Date
- 1913-1994
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Worth knowing
A temple to her stands at Govindpur in Pratappur block, which is an unusual afterlife for a social reformer: she is remembered by being enshrined rather than only commemorated.
Connections (2)
- Route adjacencyMahamaya Temple, Devipur
Rajmohini Devi's padyatras worked through the Adivasi villages of this country against drink and animal sacrifice, in the same Chaitra Navratri season that fills the Devipur hill with jaware rites. Her campaign ran against part of what those fairs contained.
- AnalogueRameshwar Gahira Guru
Two reformers of the same hills and the same decades, both from forest-dwelling communities, both preaching against drink and sacrifice and for schooling. Neither came from outside the society they set out to change, which is what distinguishes them from the missions and the state.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026
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