Question

Birsa urged his followers to purify themselves, give up drinking liquor and stop believing in witchcraft and sorcery.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

• Brisa encouraged the Mundas (tribals) to give up sorcery, witchcraft, and wanted them to clean their villages and urged them to stop drinking liquor.
• Brisa wanted to reform the tribal society.
• Birsa was in touch with a famous Vaishnav preacher. He understood the importance of piety and purity.
• Birsa had listened to the sermons of the missionaries and he had attended a local missionary school.
• Later on he believed that Hindu landlords and missionaries were the outside forces who wanted to destroy the way of life practiced by the Mundas.