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Jharkhand, which constituted the tribal areas of Bihar consisting of Chhota Nagpur and the Santhal Pargana, remained subject of the demands for autonomy. The region has a concentration of several major traditional tribes, like Santhal, HO, Oraon and Munda etc.
With the spread of education & modern activity in the tribal area a movement for the separate state started in late 1930's & 1940's. Jharkhand Party was founded in 1950, under the leadership of Jaipal Singh. However, their demand of separate state got rejected by SRC in 1955. Later many tribal parties and movements developed and furthered the demand for separate state, one of them was Jharkhand Mukti Morcha led by Shibu Soren. Finally after prolonged struggle for their separate state demand, the central government made Jharkhand- 28th state of India on November 15th 2000.