The writ of the community
Year | Vilalge/police station | Description |
1953 | Pipra | Five thousand santhals perfromed Gopikandar bitlaha on a boy and a girl for having illicit sexual relations. Both their houses were damaged |
1956 | Kharibari | The police had to open fire at Maheshpur; 20,000 Santhals assembled to perform the bitlaha for sexual intercourse between a dikku and a Santhal woman |
1957 | Kunji | Bitlaha to punish cousins who had Jarmundi illicit sexual relations. Some 3,000 Santhals participated and the house of the offenders was damaged, their paddy and maize stores plundered |
1957 | Baratanr | Illicit relationship between a married Jarmundi woman and her brother-in-law |
1958 | Kaurigarh | Five thousand Santhals performed bitlaha Shikaripara at a dikku's house for having illicit relations witha Santhal girl |
1959 | Khangrakhil | Eight hundred Santhals sang and danced Ramgarh in the streets for the bitlaha for an 'illegal' marriage between relatives |
1962 | Lilatari | One thousand armed Santhals danced and sang at the bitlaha of a boy and a girl who were related to each other and were accused of having a secret relationship. Both their houses were damaged |
1962 | Kusmaha | Five thousand armed villagers performed Ramgarh bitlaha in the village where a man committed adultery with a married woman, damaging his house |
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