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Shillong, Feb. 23: There was a time when the authorities initiated the application for a commemorative stamp of Tirot Sing Syiem in the Postal Department of the Union Government. It may be stated without doubt that the portrait picture of Tirot Sing Syiem is definitely required and there was no source to derive any authentic picture of the freedom fighter. There were attempts to acquire a proper image of the freedom fighter and the two most preferred local artists emerged at that time, Bashai Rai Dohling and Marius Main Sing Shanpru. Bashai Rai Dohling was an animation artist of the Directorate of Film Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India at Bombay, while Mainsing Shanspru was an artist in the Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Government of Meghalaya. While both of them were preparing a portrait of Tirot Sing Syiem, I was told that Bashai Rai Dohling was engaged on a certain vital assignment at the Film Division and, under compulsion, entrusted the assignment to his junior artist at Bombay. In the absence of a proper image and the urgency of the matter, there was a deviation from the local essence of depiction, because the junior artist was from mainland India.
Fortunately, at a time I (Raphael Warjri) was engaged as an apprentice of Bah Main Sing Shanpru from the year 1980 onwards. Therefore, I had witnessed an imaginary portrait of Tirot Sing Syiem painted by my mentor, Mr Marius Main Sing Shanpru . Although I was a novice at that point in time, but little that I knew about history, I threw a piece of my mind to my mentor, saying “Tirot Sing Syiem died a young man, but the portrait seems like an old man”, I suggested that it needed to be rectified. However, due to the urgency of the matter, Bah Main Sing was compelled to submit as it was and selected for publication of the stamp, which came out into the public domain and the rest is history. I was not content and took upon myself to argue about the au U Tirot Sing Commemorative Stamp 2021-10-14 Thu Tirot Sing is one of the most celebrated freedom fighters to have risen out of the Khasi Hills. The Tirot Sing Cave is an important memorial of this vivid, brutal, and often-ignored chapter of sub-continental history. FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsapp May 15, 2023 Tirot Singh was popularly known as U Tirot Singh Syiem. He was the legendary freedom fighter from the state of Meghalaya. He was one of the leaders of the Khasi people. He fought against British rules to take possession of the Khasi Hills in the early eighteen century. He was the Syiem or chief of Nongkhlaw, a part of Khasi Hills. His last name was Syiem. He was a statutory head sharing corporate authority with his Council. He was the representative of leading tribes within his territory. Maybe he is unknown to the rest of the country and one of the unsung heroes of the country, but he was the first freedom fighter who opposed the colonial rules from North-East India. He was a brave and courageous leader who struggled and fought for his people. He tried to save Khasi Hills from British rule. He was determined not to give his land in the hand of the British. He started the battle against the British in 1829 and continued till the last day of his life. He was the first Khasi leader who raised the sword against the British. He was the head of the administrative power of the Khasi Hills. He was the leader in his Durbar or court, and there were other leaders of the several tribes. They discussed every issue in the court or Durbar, and then they decided on war. When the Treaty of Yandabo was signed in 1826, the British already had extended control over the Brahmaputra valley or Sylhet. Khasi Hills was situated between Sylhet and the newly acquired Lower Assam. The British were interested in the Khasi Hills to control the region. British made a plan, and they wanted to build a road through this area to connect Guwahati with Sylhet to save travel time and establish better control of the region. Their intentions were simple; they were spreading their colonial rules slowly. U Tirot Singh was interested in recapturing Duarsin’s return of the issuing
After the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826, the British's wanted to gain control over the Brahmaputra valley. They wanted to construct the road to connect Guwahati with Sylhet to save weeks of travel and malarious country. Initially, both British and Tirot Sing came to the agreement of making the road between Guwahati and Sylhet. But, Balaram Singh, Raja of Ranee, disputed Tirot Sing's claims to the duars and went ahead with a party of armed men to establish his claim. When Tirot Sing got the idea about British reinforcing forces in Assam, Tirot Sing convened a durbar again and passed orders for the British to evacuate Nongkhlaw Tirot Singh resolved to drive out the British from the Khasi hills in April 1829; hundreds of his men attacked a British garrison, triggering the Anglo-Khasi war, which was to last for four years. Later, Tirot Sing was captured by the British and deported to Dhaka where he died in jail on July 17th, 1835.
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An early 19th-century chief, Tirot Sing belonged to the faction of Khasi leaders who did not support the growing influence of the British in these eastern frontiers. The Anglo-Khasi war was fought and Tirot and his band of faithful followers used guerilla tactics to evade and strike the militarily superior colonial forces – a battle between guns on one side, and swords and arrows on the other side. After four years of struggle and a breach of trust amongst his own camp, he was eventually captured and sent to a Dhaka prison where he died in 1835. Tirot Singh: The Unsung Hero of North-East India