Tana Bhagat Movement
Tana Bhagat Movement was a tribal uprising of a section of the Tana Bhagats and Oraons under the leadership of Jatra Oraon occurring during the late colonial period in the Chhotanagpur region of Bihar, India.
The Tana Bhagats opposed the taxes imposed on them by the British and they staged a Satyagraha even before Gandhi's satyagraha movement. They opposed the zamindars, the banias, the missionaries, the Muslims and the British state. Tana Bhagats are followers of Mahatma Gandhi, and believes in Ahinsa.
