01Phansi Tungri
The hill rises about a hundred metres above the city. Its old name was Tiriburu. Under British rule it became a place of execution, and Ranchi people called it Phansi Tungri, the gallows hill; fighters of the 1857 rising and later revolts of the Chotanagpur country were hanged here. On 15 August 1947 the freedom fighter Krishna Chandra Das raised the national flag on the hill in their memory, and since then the tricolour has been hoisted at the temple on Independence Day and Republic Day.
02Shravan on the hill
The linga at the top is reached by some four hundred steps. In Shravan, devotees climb from before dawn with Ganga water and bel leaves, and on Mahashivaratri the steps are full through the night. From the top the whole of Ranchi spreads out below, with the lake at the foot of the hill.
The life of this place
- 15 August 1947Krishna Chandra Das hoists the tricolour on Ranchi Hill in memory of those hanged there.
In Ranchi city, about 7 km from the railway station; the climb takes 15–20 minutes.
