Person · Jaintia rebel leader
U Kiang Nangbah
Also known as Kiang Nangbah
U Kiang Nangbah (c.1832 - 30 December 1862), the Jaintia tribal leader who led the 1860-1862 Jaintia rebellion against the British East India Company. Born at Tpep-pale village in the Jaintia Hills of modern Meghalaya, Nangbah organised the Pnar-Jaintia tribals against the 1860 Company-imposed house tax and the ban on traditional Pnar funerary cremation practices. The three-year armed uprising across the Jaintia Hills ended with his capture at Mukhla village. He was publicly hanged at Jowai on 30 December 1862 as a warning. The 1988 Meghalaya government commemoration each 30 December (U Kiang Nangbah Day) and the Jowai memorial honour his legacy.
- Date
- 1832–1862
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- AnalogueTirot Sing
Tirot Sing (1802-1835) of the Khasi Hills and U Kiang Nangbah (1832-1862) of the adjacent Jaintia Hills led the two chief 19-century anti-British tribal uprisings in Northeast India. Both led chiefly-tribal armed resistance against the British East India Company's road-building and taxation policies in the Meghalaya hills, with Tirot Sing dying at Dhaka Jail imprisonment in 1835 and Nangbah publicly hanged at Jowai in 1862.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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