Mysuru: Marking the 201st anniversary of Bhima-Koregaon, the Jai Bheem Sports Club will pay tribute at ‘Jay Stambh’ near Jayanagar Railway Gate in city at 6.30 pm today (Jan.1).
Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, the Club President Jayaraj Hegde said that the event will be a commemoration of the 201st anniversary of Bhima-Koregaon, in which the Peshwas were defeated by the British forces in a historic third Anglo-Maratha Battle that ended at Bhima-Koregaon in Pune district of Maharashtra in 1818. The British later erected a victory obelisk (Memorial) and the Dalits regard it as their symbolic victory over higher castes, which is celebrated annually on New Year Day (Jan.1), he said.
