{"id":156300,"date":"2021-12-27T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=156300"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:09:33","slug":"1839-struggle-by-tai-khamti-is-indias-first-war-of-independence-arunachal-deputy-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1839-struggle-by-tai-khamti-is-indias-first-war-of-independence-arunachal-deputy-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"1839 struggle by Tai Khamti is India\u2019s first war of independence: Arunachal Deputy CM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh has urged the Union Government to declare the Tai Khamti-British war of 1839 as the nation\u2019s first war of independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Tai Khamti war?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tai Khamti war took place in 1839 between the Tai Khamti people and the British.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The theatre of this war was some 2,400 km east of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh where the mutiny began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the war, Tai Khamtis resisted colonization by the British. Some 80 British soldiers, including Col. Adam White, were killed in the resultant conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><em><b>Note: <\/b>Tai Khamti people follow <strong>Theravada Buddhism.<\/strong> Their population is a little more than 1,00,000, and they live in areas straddling Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What are the other revolts of Arunachal Pradesh which need recognition?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arunachal Deputy CM also asked for recognition of battles between other communities of Arunachal Pradesh and the British.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The battles include a series of <strong>Anglo-Abor wars<\/strong> from 1858 to 1911 and the <strong>Wancho-British war<\/strong> in Tirap district\u2019s Ninu in 1875.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><em><b>Note: <\/b>The Abors, now called Adis, inhabit central Arunachal Pradesh while the Wanchos live in the southern part of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<b> \u2018<\/b><b>1839 struggle by Tai Khamti is India\u2019s first war of independence: Arunachal Deputy CM<\/b><b>\u2019 <\/b>published in <b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>25th Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh has urged the Union Government to declare the Tai Khamti-British war of 1839 as the nation\u2019s first war of independence. What is the Tai Khamti war? The Tai Khamti war took place in 1839 between the Tai Khamti people and the British. The theatre of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1839-struggle-by-tai-khamti-is-indias-first-war-of-independence-arunachal-deputy-cm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1839 struggle by Tai Khamti is India\u2019s first war of independence: Arunachal Deputy CM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-156300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}