God Died In Chains - June 9, 1900

On June 9, 1900, a 25-year-old tribal prophet named Birsa Munda died in a British colonial jail cell in India  and the official record says cholera, while his people said something else entirely. He was a Christian convert who burned churches, a self-proclaimed messenger of God who led a violent armed rebellion, and a man whose central demand that the Munda people owned the land they had always worked was quietly granted by the British Empire eight years after they buried him in the dark. This is the story of the Ulgulan, The Great Tumult, and the question that indigenous communities on every continent are still fighting over today.