In the context of these incidents, deep anger was born among the Bengali-speaking common people of Manbhum and created adverse reactions.

[3][5] In 1765, the nominal Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II was defeated to the British East India Company in the Battle of Buxar.

[6] He granted "Diwani" (right to collect revenue) of Bengal (which included Bihar) to the East India Company.

The language movement or Bhasa Andolon had started as a demand to include Manbhum District as a part of Bengal.

Atul Chandra Ghosh, the main face of the movement, was arrested, and sent to Hazaribagh Jail, 135 miles away from Manbhum.

As a protest, the Lok Sewak Sangh took up a program to start selling agricultural implements in public for the sake of the farmers, which became known as the Hal Joal Satyagraha.

[3] When Satyagraha started under the leadership of Lok Sewak Sangh for the demand of Bengali language, the satyagrahis were attacked.

The police resorted to lathi-charge and torture on women leaders at public meetings in Jhalda, Purulia and Santoori.

[3] Members of the Lok Sewak Sangh started Parikrama (circumambulation) in Raghunathpur city on January 9 under the leadership of Hemchandra Mahato as a form of protest.

On January 12, Atul Chandra Ghosh ordered the agitators to ignore government restrictions and sing the Tusu song across Manbhum.

Police vandalized the Lok Sewak Sangh office in Madhupur village on March 11, and seized a large number of Tusu song books.

Besides, under the leadership of the Sub Deputy Magistrate, Satyagrahis' houses were vandalized and looted in Pitdari village of Manbazar on March 21.

[3] Thousands of Bengali people of Manbhum district protested and were imprisoned by singing songs written by Bhajahari Mahato.

[10][3][11][12] Two popular Tusu songs are represented in the table below – শুন বিহারী ভাই তোরা রাখতে লারবি ডাঙ দেখাই। তোরা আপন তরে ভেদ বাড়ালি, বাংলা ভাষায় দিলি ছাই। Shun Bihari-bhai, Tora Rakhte Larbi Dang Dekhai.

বাংলা ভাষা প্রাণের ভাষা রে। মারবি তোরা কে তারে।। এই ভাষাতে কাজ চলছে সাত পুরুষের আমলে। এই ভাষাতেই মায়ের কোলে মুখ ফুটেছে মা বলে।। Bangla bhasha praner bhashare Marbi tora ke tare Ei bhashatei kaj cholecche Saat purusher amole Ei bhasahatei mayer kole Mukh futecche ma bole My Bangla, O the language of my soul Who dares to wipe you out It's this language that worked for us for seven generations And we gone to sleep in our mother's arms And called her Maa.

on 23 January 1956, Chief Minister of West Bengal Bidhan Chandra Roy and Chief Minister of Bihar Shri Krishna Singh proposed to merge both West Bengal and Bihar to form a new state called "Purba Pradesh".

On 6 May, After marching 300 kilometers[7] from Pakbirra village for 17 consecutive days, a procession of thousands of people along with Satyagrahis reached Kolkata Via Bankura, Beliatore, Sonamukhi, Patsair, Khandhghosh, Burdwan, Pandua, Magra, Chunchura, Chandannagar, Srirampur and Howrah.

But as a special request from TISCO the then chief minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chndra Roy gave consent for accession of three police stations (Patamda, Ichagarh and Chandil) to the Bihar.

[6] On 1 November 1956 with 16 police stations covering 2,007 square miles (5,200 km2) area and with a population of 1,169,097 the new district Purulia was acceded to West Bengal.