Phulo Murmu and Jhano Murmu were two sisters, who belonged to the Santhal Pargana region of modern-day Jharkhand. In the 1850s, when the British ruled over these parts of the country, the soldiers severely harassed tribal girls. In a fit of rebellion, the two sisters, in 1855, crashed into a British army camp and axed down 21 soldiers. The girls along with their four brothers ultimately led a liberation movement, called ‘Hool’, which helped the Santhal tribes reclaim their land from both the British and self-aggrandising zamindars. They were in their early 20s, when they mobilised 20,000 Santhals in the Hool movement!