About the Book: Lo Bir Sendra: A Hunter in the Burning Forest
Oxford Blue. ICS. Olympic hockey champion. Member of the Constituent Assembly.
A proud jungli. Jaipal Singh was born in 1903 to a family of priestly Pahans in
Jharkhand. He becomes the first Adivasi to study at Oxford University. A sports
star, he quits the ICS to captain the Indian hockey team to an Olympic gold in
1928, another first. His globetrotting life brings him a string of cushy jobs.
But he is troubled by the condition of the Adivasis. He begins fighting for
their rights. He runs newspapers, unions and political parties. To