{"id":55792,"date":"2025-07-19T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=55792"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:53:29","slug":"mangarh-dham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mangarh-dham\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangarh Dham"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mangarh Dham Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A congregation of tribals from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat held at the revered Mangarh Dham recently has raised demand for formation of a separate Bhil Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mangarh Dham<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> tribal pilgrimage and memorial<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> site located in <\/span><b>Banswara district, Rajasthan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated in the<\/span><b> Aravalli mounta<\/b><strong>i<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>n<\/strong> range, on the <\/span><b>border of Rajasthan and Gujarat.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site is <\/span><b>associated with <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><b> revered saint, Govind Guru<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who played a <\/span><b>pivotal role <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>freedom struggle of the Bhil tribes against British<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> colonial rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Govind Guru led the <\/span><b>Mangarh rebellion,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a significant event in Indian history, where <\/span><b>thousands of Bhils sacrificed their lives <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for their rights and freedom.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mangarh <\/span><b>rebellion took place on November 17, 191<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3, when <\/span><b>British forces attacked the Bhil gathering at Mangarh Hill,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> resulting in a<\/span><b> tragic massacre.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This event is often referred to as the <\/span><b>\u201cAdivasi Jallianwala Bagh\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to its brutality and the number of lives lost.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site is especially crowded during the <\/span><b>annual fair held in November to commemorate the rebellion.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devotees participate in various religious activities, including prayers, bhajans (devotional songs), and communal meals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestatesman.com\/india\/tribal-congregation-at-mangarh-dham-raises-demand-for-formation-of-bhil-pradesh-1503459456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangarh Dham is a tribal pilgrimage and memorial site located in Banswara district, Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":55807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55792","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}