Tilka Manjhi

Tilka Majhi was the first Paharia leader of the then Bhagalpur district of Bihar in India who took up the arms against the British in the 1780s.

Though the British surrounded the Tilapore forest from which he operated, he and his men held them at bay for several weeks. When he was finally caught in 1784, he was tied to the tail of a horse and dragged all the way to the collector's residence at Bhagalpur, Bihar. There, his lacerated body was hung from a Banyan tree.

A statue of the heroic leader was erected at the spot after Indian independence, which is near the residence of S.P. Bhagalpur and named after him "Tilka Manjhi Chowk".

The Bhagalpur University is named "Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University" after him.

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