President Ram Nath Kovind recently laid the foundation of a memorial dedicated to the 1817 Paika Rebellion.
Paika memorial is to mark 200 years of the Paika Rebellion.
It will come up at Barunei Hill in Odisha’s Khurda district.
About Paika Rebellion
Paikas under the leadership of Baxi Jagabandhu, the hereditary chief of the militia army of the Gajapati King of Khurda (a kingdom near Puri), rose in rebellion in March 1817.
It was an uprising against colonial rule that predates the rebellion of the sepoys in 1857.