JTICI Vol.5, Issue 1, No.5, pp. 45 to 51, March 2018
A Conversation with Sanika Munda of The Khutkati Rights Struggle
Bipin Jojo
Moderator: Welcome friends. He is one of the survivals among the elder generations who were fighting for the adivasis cause. Their fight was for the ‘Khutkati Rights’. The Khutkati Rights’ philosophy is something like this: God has created this earth and we have made the soil by our own effort. Who is the government to come and ask for tax. So this was the simple philosophy they had. Since 18th Century onwards this movement was going on and he is the one of the survivals of that movement. Rest all died. Till today because of this condition he does not pay tax to the government of Orissa. So many notices have been served to him but he says I will not pay nor go. You hang me or put me in jail. Do whatever you want to do, I will not give the tax; because government does not own me nor my land. It is from this movement that Saneka Munda comes from.
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