He captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

Jaipal Singh Munda, also known as Pramod Pahan, was born in a Munda tribal family, on 3 January 1903 in Takra-Hatudami, Pahan Toli village of what was then Khunti subdivision (now declared district) of the then district of Ranchi in the Bengal presidency of British India (in the present-day State of Jharkhand).

A gifted field hockey player, Munda was a brilliant student and exhibited exceptional leadership qualities from a very young age.

B. Rosser, Munda left the team after league phase and therefore could not play in the games in the knockout stage.

On returning to India, Munda was associated with Mohan Bagan Club of Calcutta and started its hockey team in 1929.

[4] Tara Majumdar was a cousin of General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri and a granddaughter of Congress President Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee.

[5][6] His second marriage was with Jahanara Jeyaratnam, the daughter of a Sri Lankan Tamil who joined the Indian Civil service in 1954.

In 1940 at Ramgarh session of Congress, he discussed with Subash Chandra Bose the need to form separate state Jharkhand.

[11] After the independence of India, the Adivasi Mahasabha re-emerged as Jharkhand Party and it accommodated non-tribal people to achieve long-term goals.

[12][13] He contested the first general election of independent India from Ranchi (West) as a candidate of the Jharkhand Party and won with a 60.85% vote share.

The proposal was not accepted due to the region’s linguistic diversity, the absence of a common link language, the minority status of the tribal population, and concerns about the economic implications of such a separation.

Similar his vote share declined to 60.25% and 52.56% in the 1957 and 1962 general election, subsequently, through he managed to remain in seat.

The whole history of my people is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India punctuated by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru at his word.

There, they met Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, as well as Munda, who warned the Nagas against the folly of fighting a war against the Government of India forces.

[24] Jaipal Singh Munda stadium was opened in Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarakntak by VC Prof. T.V.

This scholarship is named after the great leader Jaipal Singh Munda in which the government aims to uplift the students belonging to socially and economically vulnerable groups and give them opportunity for a quality education henceforth bringing hope in the lives of youths of Jharkhand and instilling in them the thought to give back to their state and being a part of Jharkhand developmental story.