SUBLIME VALUES OF ADIVASI INDIA

The prehistoric or the ancient India was the land of Adivasis or indigenous peoples of Indian sub-continent, who in the course of time till today were invaded, won over, enslaved greatly sansrkitised. The sublime values those are in India, are largely found in the rural, Adivasi or among the indigenous peoples of India, where these indigenous populations of the country are still retaining these values and exhibiting through their social, cultural and various aspects of their folklore in-spite of hardships which are to great extent man made such as modern day oppressions and exploitations. Even though they are struggling for their survival, and yet they portray these innate and God given sublime values in their day today life. If corruption is found in their social habitats, it has come from outside of their geographical spaces or territories.

Which are these innate and sublime values which make them ideal citizens, living saints and sages in India are the following:
1. Love for God
2. Mellanerium
3. Hope for survival
4. Social solidarity
5. Simplicity
6. Sense of Social justice
7. Honesty
8. Loyalty
9. Love of neighbours
10. Hospitality
11. Social equality
12. Love of Nature
13. Equality of both sex
14. Empowerment of women
15. Water conservation and irrigation
16. Cleanliness
17. Devotion to their indigenous deities
18. Simple living and high thinking
19. Tribal Unity, 20. Perseverence
21. Genuiness
22. Largeheartedness
23. Freedom
24. Oral Tradition
25. Love for singing, dance and Music
26. Tribal aesthetics
27. Consistent
28. Hard Working
29. Loving & caring
30. Social sympathy
31. Self-employed
32. Self-sustaining
33. Love for oral literature
34. Respect for physical and social environment
35. Respect for women
36. Clan & village unity
37. Serviceable
38. Love for independence
39. Ideal Panchayati raj or local self-rule
40. No alienation or encroachment in other land or territory.

Against this social, cultural and historical background one can view that if at all there is corruption it has come to them through outsiders in their regions, as the media people have time and again pointed explicitly, including the social and cultural anthropologists. Governments in all honesty should preserve and promote these social and cultural values of Adivasi India through formal and informal education, mass media, etc, instead of bringing in corrupt systems in the name of administration, maintenance of law and justice, national integration, etc

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THE INCREDIBLE VALUES OF ADIVASI INDIA

Some time back, Dr. Stephen Fuchs SVD a a great and pioneering cultural anthroplogist of India persuaded me to me study and affirmatively write about the tribal heritage or Ancient heritage of Adivasi India specifically about their innate values which are unique in the country.. He further mentioned that the rich heritage of Adivsi India in the form of their persisting social and cultural values from remote past should by no means be lost in the process of modernisation. Some of these values coming down from the centuries are so unique that they are impossible to be found in the mainstream of the Indian society. Due to this significant and unique aspects of this antiquarian tradition, these values at this juncture of modernisation, be preserved, promoted and innovated. In those day, like any other tribal or the indigenous Indian youth of today, I had inferiority complex and lack of will, to positively acknowledge the cultural heritage of ADIVASI INDIA and bit of aversion towards this particular tribal heritiage of India to uphold as vauable cultural tradition in the country against the powerful process of sanskritisation which is sweeping away the good old traditions of indigenous peoples and replacing only with the Bramenic ones Even though in the heart of heart I had desire to resist the devastating process which ruined my Adivasi cultures but no ecourage to say boldly anything in this connection. Today when after three decades of my obervation and studies of tribal cultures of India and aquiring many of the elements of Brahmenic cultures , and loosing over these decades many uniquely valuable elements of tribal cultures , I regrette much in doing so. I feel that the Adivasi heritiage of this sort is not aquired by human efforts, but endowed on these simple and innocent folks of the country by God, the Creater himself to the Adivasis of India, who are genuine saints and sages, andata (giver of India as Adivasi heritage of India possess today, even the main stream society inspite of their best efforts possibly may not achieve them. Each Adivasi group of India is the living embodiment of innate, uncorrupt and unsullied values which others have either not noticed or ignored, on the contrary try to imposed the corrupted values through social encounters, weekly markets, public administration, maintenance of law and order and so on spoiled the tribal cultures of India. The Indian print and electronic media has certainly pointed out this fact positvely and a times very explicitely.

Which are these innate Adivasi values of India,....? Let us take time, look around in the remote parts of the country, positively, with no feelings of caste prejudices and superiority complex and then one will see the image of divine light always buring, unixtingvishable, in the present days of colossal exploitation, edprivation, suppression and alienation, poverty, miseries by all walks of peoples including reputed NGOs. Others have taken away from them, in great measures, but given, today their life, ligacy and silent history is speaking.

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