Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia

Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University (সিধো-কানহো-বীরসা বিশ্ববিদ With a view to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in various branches of learning.

Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University (SKBU) has been named in commemoration of three gallant tribal patriots amongst whom Sidho Murmu and Kanho Murmu two brothers ignited the flicker of peasant movement (1855) before the mutiny of 1857 in Bengal, and Birsha Munda who shook the British establishment through his nonviolence movement leaving the Christian missionaries, Jagirdars and Zamindars infuriated in  ...