Tana Bhagat movement. (Answer in 150 words)

- Tana Bhagat movement. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
The Tana Bhagat movement of 1914 turned religious reform among the Oraon into a refusal of rent and forced labour, and then into a tribal wing of the national movement.

Body
1. Setting and origin: Oraon cultivators of the Chotanagpur plateau, already stripped of khuntkatti land and following the Birsa Munda rising of 1899. It began with Jatra Bhagat of Chingri Navatoli in Ranchi district, joined by Turia and Sibu Bhagat.
2. The programme: worship of Dharmes alone, rejection of the bhuts and of the pahan's sacrifices, abstention from meat, liquor and the akhra dance, and ritual cleanliness — a Sanskritising reform joined to a flat refusal of begar and of rent to the dikus.
3. Course and effect: the leaders were arrested in 1914-15, but from 1921 the Tana Bhagats joined non-cooperation, took to khadi and refused taxes. Post-independence Bihar legislation restored their alienated lands, and they persist as a recognised Gandhian sect among the Oraon.

Conclusion
It is the classic Indian case of agrarian protest carried in a religious idiom, and a direct ancestor of the Jharkhand movement.