{"id":8092,"date":"2023-04-06T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:18:31","slug":"uda-devi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uda-devi\/","title":{"rendered":"Uda Devi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Uda Devi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>She was born in Ujirao, Lucknow.<\/li>\n<li>She was part of the royal guard of Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh.<\/li>\n<li>Uda Devi is remembered not only for her stories of valour but also for her skill as a leader who managed to mobilise people \u2014 specially Dalit women \u2014 to take up arms against the British.<\/li>\n<li>On November 16, 1857, Uda Devi was among the soldiers who clashed with the British regiment stationed near the Gomti River.<\/li>\n<li>She formed an all-women battalion, today called the Dalit Veeranganas, to take part in armed uprisings against the British.<\/li>\n<li>Devi belonged to the Pasi community, which was labelled a \u2018criminal caste\u2019 by the British administration under the Criminal Tributes Act, 1871.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pasis:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pasis are traditionally pig-herders and toddy tappers and were listed as the second-largest Dalit group in Uttar Pradesh after the 2001 census.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/death-anniversary-of-uda-devi-who-was-this-dalit-freedom-fighter-8274604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uda Devi was born in Ujirao, Lucknow and was a part of the royal guard of Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8092","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\/8092","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}