Template:Multiple issues Template:Infobox civilian attack The Kharsawan massacre (1 January 1948) was a massacre of Adivasis by the Orissa Military Police in erstwhile Kharsawan State in the newly independent Dominion of India, in what is now Jharkhand, India.
Police fired on a crowd of around 50,000 mostly Adivasi civilians in the market of Kharsawan, many of whom had gathered there to protest against the accession of the princely state to India in favor of a separate Adivasi state within India. There is no consensus over the number of casualties.[1][2][3][4][5] The Orissa government declared 35 deaths.[6]
The BJP regimes have commemorated this event to honour the tribals who were killed in the incident. The current Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren has promised to provide jobs to the families of the people killed.[7]
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References
- ↑ Kharsawan Massacre of 1948: A Tragic Chapter in Jharkhand's History. CivilsDaily(2024-01-02). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ↑ The Life and Times of Jaipal Singh Munda: The Life and Times of Jaipal Singh Munda: Remembering Jaipal Singh Munda, the Tribal Leader{{#if:Kiro|, Kiro}. Prabhat Prakashan(2020-09-15). ISBN 978-93-5266-943-1
- ↑ THE MAKING OF ADIVASI MAHASABHA{{#if:Kumar|, Kumar}. Book Rivers(2019-07-04). ISBN 978-93-88727-08-2
- ↑ ADIVASIDOM : Selected writings & speeches of Jaipal Singh Munda{{#if:Pankaj|, Pankaj}. Pyara Kerketta Foundation(2017-06-01). ISBN 978-93-81056-70-7
- ↑ A Piece of Land to Call One's Own: Multicultural Federalism and Institutional Innovation in India{{#if:Stuligross|, Stuligross}. University of California, Berkeley(2001)
- ↑ Remembering independent India's 'Jallianwala Bagh': The Kharsawan massacre of 1948, Sengupta, Arjun. The Indian Express(2024-01-01). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ↑ Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand{{#if:Basu|, Basu}. Oxford University Press(2024). ISBN 978-0-19-888467-5