Veer Surendra Sai

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Surendra Sai
Sai on 1986 stamp of India
Maharaja of Sambalpur State ( legal successor/ claimant )
Reign	1833-1884
Predecessor	Maharaj Sai
Successor	Mitrabhanu Sai
Born	(1809-01-23)23 January 1809 haldiSambalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India, Now Odisha
Died	28 February 1884(1884-02-28) (aged 75) Asirgarh, Central Provinces, British India, now Madhya Pradesh
House	House of Chauhans of Sambalpur ( Khinda branch )

Bira Surendra Sai (23 January 1809 – 28 February 1884) (ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ସାଏ) was a native Indian as well as a regional freedom fighter from what is now Odisha. He fought against the British rule in India after they dethroned the rulers of the Sambalpur State as he was the legal heir.^[1]

Bira Surendra Sai and his associates who were Madho Singh, Kunjal Singh, Airi Singh, Bairi Singh, Uddant Sai, Ujjal Sai, Khageswar Dao, Karunakar Singh, Salegram Bariha, Gobinda Singh, Pahar Singh, Rajee Ghasia, Kamal Singh, Hati Singh, Salik Ram Bariha, Loknath Panda/Gadtia, Mrutunjaya Panigrahi, Jagabandu Hota, Padmanabha Guru, Trilochan Panigrahi, and many others worked together and separately to counter British colonial expansion in India, preventing the British authorities from assuming control over the majority of Western Odisha region for a significant period of time.^[2] Many of them were tried and executed by the colonial authorities; Hatte Singh died at the cellular jail (also known as kala pani) in the Andamans. Lion of Sambalpur Veer Surendra Sai died in Asirgarh Jail on 28 February 1884.