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Veer Surendra Sai
Freedom fighter and revolutionary from Odisha / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Veer Surendra Sai (23 January 1809 – 28 February 1884) was a native Indian as well as a regional freedom fighter from what is now Odisha. He fought against the British rule in India after they dethroned the king and queen of the Sambalpur State as he was the legal heir.[1]
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Born | (1809-01-23)23 January 1809 |
Died | 28 February 1884(1884-02-28) (aged 75) |
Veer Surendra Sai and his associates who were Madho Singh, Kunjal Singh, Airi Singh, Bairi Singh, Uddant Sai, Ujjal Sai, Khageswar Dao, Karunakar Singh, Salegram Bariha, Govind Singh, Pahar Singh, Rajee Ghasia, Kamal Singh, Hati Singh, Salik Ram Bariha, Loknath Panda/Gadtia, Mrutunjaya Panigrahi, Jagabandu Hota, Padmanabha Guru, Trilochan Panigrahi, and many others worked together and separately to counter British colonial expansion in India, preventing the British authorities from assuming control over the majority of Western Odisha region for a significant period of time.[2] Many of them were tried and executed by the colonial authorities; Hatte Singh died at the Kalapani Jail in the Andamans. Lion of Sambalpur Veer Surendra Sai died in Asirgarh Jail on 28 February 1884.