{"id":49564,"date":"2025-06-08T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49564"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:16:15","slug":"raja-bhabhut-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/raja-bhabhut-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Raja Bhabhut Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Raja Bhabhut Singh Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Madhya Pradesh government held a special Cabinet meeting to honour 19th-century tribal icon Raja Bhabhut Singh, renaming the Pachmarhi Wildlife Sanctuary after him.<\/p>\n<h2>About Raja Bhabhut Singh<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Raja Bhabhut Singh was born in the\u00a0<strong>Jagirdar family<\/strong>\u00a0of Harrakot Raikheri branch in the lineage of Thakur Ajit Singh ji, the owner of\u00a0<strong>Pachmarhi Jagir.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>His grandfather Thakur Mohan Singh had supported the mighty\u00a0<strong>Peshwa Appa Saheb Bhonsle<\/strong>\u00a0of Nagpur shoulder to shoulder\u00a0<strong>against the British in 1819-20.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was a significant\u00a0<strong>king of the Gond tribe,<\/strong>\u00a0with his realm encompassing Jabalpur and the Satpura hills.<\/li>\n<li>During the 1857 revolt, Raja Bhabhut Singh was a formidable opponent of the British, leveraging his intimate knowledge of the\u00a0<strong>Satpura forests and mountain paths<\/strong>\u00a0to lead a series of successful guerrilla attacks.<\/li>\n<li>He was also a close\u00a0<strong>ally of freedom fighter Tatya Tope.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Raja Bhabhut Singh\u2019s guerrilla warfare tactics in the Satpura ranges demonstrated a sophisticated military strategy that kept the British at bay till 1860, when they deployed the Madras Infantry specifically to capture him.<\/li>\n<li>Due to his guerilla warfare policy, Bhabhut Singh is called\u00a0<strong>Shivaji of Narmadachal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The British later executed him, making him a martyr whose memory has been preserved through\u00a0<strong>Korku folk traditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Raja Bhabhut Singh FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Where is the Gond tribe located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Gond, group of aboriginal peoples of central and south-central India, about two million in number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>Which rivers flow through Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Denwa River is a tributary of Tawa River\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/political-pulse\/decode-politics-bjp-madhya-pradesh-wildlife-sanctuary-raja-bhabhut-singh-tribal-icon-10052199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raja Bhabhut Singh was born in the Jagirdar family of Harrakot Raikheri branch in the lineage of Thakur Ajit Singh ji, the owner of Pachmarhi Jagir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,750,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-raja-bhabhut-singh","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}