How BirsaMunda became "Bhagwan Birsa Munda" by the age of 25?
Missionaries forcefully converted BirsaMunda to Christianity & named him "Birsa David" when he was a child. They gave him admission in a missionary school for doing this.As he grew up, he realised that missionaries are frauds & are looting the natives. Soon, he got disenchanted with X'tianity & left it.
To counter these missionaries & rampant conversion of tribals, he started mocking Christians & their practices. HE STARTED CALLING HIMSELF MESSENGER OF GOD OR THE PROPHET.
Birsa also started learning about Hindu religious teachings & started studying the old scriptures along with the Ramayana and Mahabharata. He wore the sacred thread, worshipped the tulsi plant and gave up meat. On top of that, he started doing Ghar Vaapsi of the converted tribals.
Soon, he became famous. Other tribals started seeing him as a preacher, healer & a miracle man. People started calling him "Dharti Abba" & he became their leader or Bhagwan.
People stopped converting to Christianity after listening to him.
He also launched series of revolts against Britishers to take back their land.
All this irked the missionaries & Britishers.
Birsa was caught by Britishers on 3 Feb 1900. They wanted to hang him but that would have antagonised the tirbals further.
So, they poisoned him to death on 9 June 1900 & claimed he died coz of Cholera & they had nothing to do with his death.
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