A team from National Monuments Authority lead by its Chairman, submitted a report to the Ministry of Culture on declaring Mangarh hillock in Rajasthan’s Banswara District, as a monument of National Importance in the year of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
- Minister of State for Culture Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal said that the unsung heroes and Mangarh hillock haven’t received the importance in history which they deserved.
About Mangarh hillock massacre
- Mangarh is revered as a sacred place by Bhils from three states-Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
- It was here, six years before the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre, that over 1,500 Bhil tribals were killed by British forces on November 17, 1913.
- Social reformer Govind Guru had launched a movement called “Bhagat movement” in the late 19th century among Bhil tribes, which aimed to ’emancipate’ them by prescribing, among other things, adherence to vegetarianism and abstinence from all kinds of intoxicants.
- Inspired by the guru, the Bhils then rose against oppressive policies of the British and forced farm labour imposed by the local princely rulers of Banswara, Santrampur, Dungarpur and Kushalgarh.
- He led the religious gathering on the hill that was attacked on the presumption of being a threat to Britishers.
- British soldiers along with the soldiers of rulers of some smaller states attacked and killed assembled innocent Bhils at Mangarh on November 17, 1913.
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