Jaipal Singh Munda was an Indian politician, writer and sportsman, born on 3 January 1903 and died on 20 March 1970. As a sportsman he captained the Indian field hockey team to the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly that debated the new Constitution of the Indian Union and later campaigned for the causes of the Adivasis and for a separate homeland for them in central India. The Adivasis of Chhotanagpur know him as Marang Gomke, meaning Great Leader in the Munda language.
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was an Indian politician, writer, and sportsman
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captained the Indian field hockey team to a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
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was an Indian politician, writer, and sportsman
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captained the Indian field hockey team
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1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
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captained the Indian field hockey team
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