10 Mar 2022 Pal-Dadhav Massacre: Gujarat
Pal-Dadhav Massacre – Today Current Affairs
- The ‘Pal-Dadhvav massacre’ in Gujarat on 7 March completed 100 years. The Gujarat government has described it as a “bigger massacre than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre”.
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About Pal-Dadhav Massacre:
- This massacre took place on March 7, 1922, in the villages of Pal, Chitaria and Dadhwav in Sabarkantha district, at that time these villages were part of the ‘Idar State’ (present-day Gujarat).
- The villagers of Pal, Dadhav and Chitaria gathered on the banks of the ‘Waris River’ as part of the ‘Eki Movement’ led by Motilal Tejawat.
- This movement was being done in protest against the land revenue tax (Lagana) imposed on the farmers by the British and the feudal lords. The Hindu Analysis.
- The British paramilitary forces were in search of ‘Tejawat’ for a long time. On coming to know about this gathering, these forces immediately reached the spot.
- Under the leadership of Tejawat, about 2000 Bhils raised their bows and arrows and started raising slogans of not paying the rent. On this, the British commander HG Sutton ordered to open fire on the villagers, and in this indiscriminate fire, about 1,000 tribals (Bhils) were killed.
- Although Motilal Tejawat survived the shootout, and later he returned and named this place as ‘Veerbhoomi’.
Inheritance: The Hindu Analysis
- A release issued by the Gujarat government on the centenary of this massacre described the incident as “more brutal than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919”.
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