Jaipal Singh Munda is described in the public record as Field Hockey player and political leader (1903-1970). Born in Houthi, India, in 1903. Died in 1970.
Jaipal Singh Munda (3 January 1903 – 20 March 1970) was an Indian politician, writer, and sportsman. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly, which debated the new Constitution of the Indian Union. He also captained the Indian field hockey team to a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Later, he emerged as a campaigner for the causes of Adivasis and the creation of a separate homeland for them in central India. He is popularly known as "Marang Gomke" (meaning Great Leader in Munda language) by the Adivasis of Chhotanagpur. == Early life == Jaipal Singh Munda, also known as Pramod Pahan, was born to Radhamani and Amru Pahan in a Christian Munda family, on 3 January 1903 in Takra-Hatudami, Pahan Toli village, which was then part of the Khunti subdivision (now a district) of Ranchi in the Bengal presidency of British India (present-day Jharkhand). During his childhood, Munda's tended his family's cattle herd.
Jaipal Singh Munda is recorded among the figures by whom swimming is remembered, and the surviving account of that career is the basis on which the reputation rests.
Competitive swimming is decided in hundredths of a second, and rule changes to suits and starts have repeatedly reset its records.
