BHILVANI. Weekly News Magazine of Bhils to Protect their Human and Cultural Rights

The Bhils are possibly more that 150 millions all over the country known under various regional and local names. They are spread in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhatisgargh, West Begal, Assam, Tripura and also in Pakistan. This is one of the community of India which is largely neglected by the mainstream communities even though some claiming to work for them about their society, culture, folklore, language, religioun, worldviews and values, festivals, tribal heroes, folk-history, ancient Bhil land, demographic presence, schedued areas, etc including by the Church NGOs working in the Bhil regions claiming to be honestly dedicated to the uplisftment of the Bhils. By and by, the Bhils under these external influences, forms of tribal development imposed and exploitations, even though billions and billions of Rupees came for them did not reach to them. It is a matter of seriuous regrett. On the contrary, the others in the name of developing the Bhils have far and wide developed themselves and imposed on the Bhils their own way of life, including the missionaries of regular and free churches.Some of the so called NGOs are working among the Bhils for more than 100 years under whom the Bhils have regressed and not progressed. If they continue to impose their ideas and life style the existence of the Bhils will be vanished.

Bhilvani is but a humble attempt to elevate the Bhils through a methodology called adivasikaran, as the eminent cultural anthropologist of India Prof. Sachidananda calls it a wholistic and ideal approach for the tribal development in India.
Bhilvani is a weekly news and views magazine committed for the protection of their human and cultural rights against the mainstream invasions under several damaging factors, while innovating, preservng, promoting and integrating the Bhils in the national mainstream as the respectable citizens of the country. Bhilvani has made a humble beginning. It is being written, edited in Bhili Mathias Bhuriya and published by a Bhil himself from Jhabua. All the NGOs if they are interested in the Bhils should promote the language, culture and society of the Bhils otherwise a day is not far when the Bhil community shall face the final face of suppression.

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ALCOHOL IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF BACKWARDNESS OF JHABUA BHILS

The Bhils or Adivasi community who Jhabua district including the present district of Alirajpur is the archaic or the indigenous tribal community of India as an eminent cutural anthropologist of India Dr. Stephen Fuchs SVD often called. Prior to the coming of Outsiders to the home land of the Bhils called Nishad Land in the ancient days in the North India, they were the rulers, village cheifs, petty kings, kings of ranks who are described indiscriminately described as Asuras or Rakshashas or Giants in the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upnishadas or other sanscritic literatures. Ever since the coming of non-Nishadas, or non Bhils to the land of these indigenous peoples, they have constantly fought unsuccessful wars with Aryans, Rjputs, Moguls, Marathas and Brtitish peoples and all others till today since the outsiders were more able and competent as compared to these indigenous folks . As a consequence of these encounters,in the history from prehistoric times till today, the incoming peoples have done great injustice to the Nishadas or the Bhils till today. Their geographial space vastely shrunk like that of the ancient Gondwana, or their land was alienated, society and culture was damaged and destroyed, language and folklore was discouraged, they were illogically or irrationally assimilated, destory and their history was unwritten , their heroes were killed and their names are wiped away from their history, as a whole their till today being wiped away from the face of Nishad-Land. But the Constitution of India under the pioneering leadership of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar upholds their overall human rights with dignity for the safe and legal revival if need be.

To forget these historical, social, cultural and over all psychological tradgedies they drink, sing and dance. The money lenders, alcohol merchants and the non tribals encourage them to drink more and more so that the resources which are further remaining may go to them easily and automatically. Only from the district of Jhabua including Alirajpur some worth of over 100 crores worth of alcohol is being consumed and no NGOs have seriously taken the cause of uplifting the tribals since they too want to be beneficiries of the inheriting the remaining resources of the Bhils.

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