Explanation:

Second option is correct.

Baba Tilka Manjhi (or Jabra paharia) was the first Adivasi leader who took up arms against the British in the 1784, around 100 years before Mangal Pandey. He organized the Adivasis to form an armed group to fight against the resource grabbing and exploitation of British.

Long before Mangal Pandey fired the shot that started the First War of Indian Independence, India’s tribal communities gave their lives in opposing the colonizers. The known instance of an Adivasi rebellion against the British was that of Tilka Manjhi in 1785.