Can a ghost lead a military insurrection? Answer: YES.

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Can a ghost lead a military insurrection? Answer: YES.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... hic3.12360

In the middle of 1855, some ten thousand Santals, a tribal people in eastern India, rebelled against officials' practices of tax extraction as well as against the British administration of justice. The rebellion was instigated by Thakur and other bongas, who deputized the two Santal brothers Sido and Kanhu Murmu to spread the revolt. Led by the bongas with Santal assistance, many of the rural population of what is now Jharkhand took up arms to join Thakur's insurrection. The rebellion lasted a year before it was suppressed (see Banerjee, 2002), and both brothers were executed by the British. Thakur was never captured.



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Thakur is a supernatural being.


I confess that after the reading of this article, my secret hope that the Book of Revelation betrayes a historical Jesus in virtue of the seditious anti-Roman propaganda found in it, vanishes like snow in the sun.
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