{"id":5473,"date":"2017-04-13T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2022-05-22T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T04:48:21","slug":"pindiki-bahubalendra-paika-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/pindiki-bahubalendra-paika-mutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Pindiki Bahubalendra – The Legendary Guerilla Paika Fighter of Khurda Gada"},"content":{"rendered":"
Daruthenga, the village on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, has been in news for their resistance to garbage dumping. However, very few people are aware of the glorious past of the village which is the birthplace of\u00a0Pindiki Bahubalendra, one of the less-known yet great fighters of the Paika\u00a0Rebellion<\/a> in 1817.<\/p>\n Born in 1768, the great paika warrior Pindiki Bahubalendra and a close aide of Buxi Jagabandhu,\u00a0demonstrated resistance against the British oppression.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Prafulla Bahubalendra, a descendant of the legendary fighter,\u00a0Pindiki Bahubalendra\u00a0had joined Buxi Jagabandhu in his fight against the Britishers. During the Paika Rebellion, he torched the police station at Gopa, Banpur, Khurda and killed Charan Patnaik, the traitor who had conspired with the British to capture Jayi Rajguru. He had also killed the British Army officer Lt. Paris and Fricdos.<\/p>\n