Friday, March 27, 2009

GOBAR

First Bhili Language News Paper for the Protection of Tribal Human Rights

Mama Baleshwar Dayal was the first to edit and print the first Bhili news paper called GOBAR. BHILWANI is the second news paper in Bhili edited by Mahipal Bhuriya. GOBAR was edited , printed and published from Bamania(Dist, Jhabua) by Mama individually. Prior to GOBAR the Bhili news paper had some other names in thirties and fourtied and fifties of the last century.. Each time Mama Baleshwar Dayal went to prison the name of his paper was transfered to some other editors. GOBAR literally means cowdung, and this no one dared to snatch away from thr Father of the Bhils.

GOBAR was circulated in whole of Bhilanchal.

Through GOBAR Mama educated the Bhils in tribal human rights, linguistic human rights, political rights, educational rights, etc. Through this paper he brought the over all developmental education to the Bhils successfully unlike the NGOs today who do not communicate to the tribals their plans and projects.

For the protection of the human rights, development programmes and communication of other information, each of the NGO working in the tribal regions should publish weekly or monthly news bulletins and News Papers.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

INTEGRATED TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT

Tribals of India have been persisting to adjust with the emerging situation in the country since last three centuries especially in Modern India. This newly developed socio-economic situation in modern India has not been contributing positively for their over all social, cultural, economic and political welfare of the indigenous peoples. On the contrary, they have been successively losing what their community owned traditional resources namely jal (water), jungle (forests) and jameen(land) a slogan the social activists have strongly raised in favor of tribals in India are largely depleted in favour of non tribals. .

Today they are also confronted with clashes with other powerful societies and state governments in the country.Thus ,indigenous communities are getting badly disorganized in the name of national integration.,Their dignified and joyful era, tribal co-existence has vanished and , Much worse in the whole process of tribal development they are becoming Dalits, social or cultural slaves,of noble Indians,, getting more and more in the disadvantaged positions in the national main stream of India.

A total area of human rights,, education, health, women and child empowerment, youth animations, peoples organisations, natural resource management, disaster management, child labour, should be treated with totally new and indigenous perspectives,for tribals integrated development or else the other or non tribals communities soon shall swallow these 80% indigenous peoples including tribals.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

IMPOWERISHED BY ALCOHOL AND POLICE

Three days back I was travelling from Ratlam (MP), a widely used railway station by the Bhils of Madhya Pradesh returning in the evening to my place Meghnagar. I casually bought a current ticket and boarded a common passengers' compartment in the Avantika Express (Indore-Mumbai) which was heavily packed by the Bhils migrating to Gujarat in search of daily wages for procuring food for themselves. Joining them in the train like this, thought I shall know the pulse of the Adivasi peoples in India better. All these Bhil passengers appeared hungry and starved, but happy and hopeful. As the train moved from the station, I found that these Bhils were from the village called Raoti near Ratlam of the clan (gotra) called Pargi.

After a brief introduction and a conversation in Bhili, I verified as usual there was no job provided by the Government and since affected by starvation and drought, they had to flee the village to Surat (Gujarat) where they would self-employ themselves in some construction work and thus help themselves in such destitute situation. This Pargi clan of people further informed me that many were fleeing from surrounding villages since the Government was not doing anything. .

I spontaneously asked whether they consume alcohol out of curiosity and seeking some information from them? A non tribal passenger standing close to me promptly responded joining our discussion saying, ' Two things are breaking down these poor people’s economy, that is Daru (alcohol) and the second police. Since they over drink and fight among themselves, the police benefits from their crimes and grow richer on the contrary leaving them socially disorganised and impoverished. A few passengers standing close to us affirmed the fact with sympathy for the tribals.

Sad enough, The Bhils of these regions had their own customary laws which are still prevalent among them, to resolve their disagreements mutually, building further their culture and solidarity, among themselves. And the justice in the Bhil tribal council through customary laws is just, mathematical, cheap, instant and transparent. What more is needed...Instead the Government destroyed good and fair tradition of their own which supported them for over many centuries, which was very much just, and introduced corrupt, most expensive and destroying tribal unity, solidarity with one another besides regressing them in several areas of life.


One question arose instantly to my mind as to whose benefits or for whose society's benefits the Government is working. Whose system, economy and society Government is building....? Is it for the good of the tribals? In this case tribals are systematically being impoverished much more by introducing these more and more corrupt practices and subjugating them totally to non tribals. Nothing more; it is high time to restore good and sublime practices of the tribals and abstain from interfering further in their valid and just systems of indigenous peoples. There are sufficient constitutional provisions for the tribal restoration; if at all the people on the top want the good of the Adivasis and the protection of their human rights in India....!

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CULTURE OF JOY

They do not get 50 % to 70% meals annually, neither proper shelter to stay when on move , nor sufficient and clean water to drink; but they are today living symbols joy and undeniable proofs of total exploitation and deprivation in a land tribal development, where the Government and NGOs claim to be fully dedicated for their total and sustainable development since decades. No responsible persons come to their rescue in the times faced with natural calamities, man made problems except in the opportune times when non tribals can avail for themselves, heavy funds from national and international agencies, merely in the name of tribal relief through heavy projects and manipulate the tribal developmental funds again heavily. Where as the tribals are independent, self sustaining or self sufficient by themselves on the contrary they are providing grain, income, labour for the non tribals in legal and illegal way.

Also they strongly believe in fatalism, and ever since natural and man made problems began to haunt them, since 30 years more or less, in acquiring their daily food, they independently searched for it in the towns and cities of distant places. The developmental funds rolling to their land were spent on the papers for some one else's benefits, very evident mirrored through a life they live today and the whole tribal scenario speak more convincingly than before. Due to their swabhiman (self-respect) they do not beg or bow politically because they know that they are the ones to deprive them holistically. They honestly and tirelessly strive to get their daily bread with their own sweat, that too with swabhiman(self respect).

Even this year 2009, there is famine and drought everywhere in all the districts of Bhilanchal and 70% Bhils have migrated. Yet the funds will come and will be spent by all for all the Bhils, through all the months of the year including by the NGOs, but the Bhils of Bhilanchal will eat the bread (roti) of their own sweat, acquired by his own labour in some distant land, in his own way and not by the funds of those who aquire in his name, because they shall be spent on the papers.

Who are the most needly ....? Who are the most greedy....? Who are the most dishonest in the whole process ...? The Bhils....? No. Guess who...? In this context the Bhils prefer to starve, face starvation, respectfully face death and honestly die with dignity not cursing any one, accepting even death as part of their life, but under their own roof.

Bhils are the genuine embodiment of divine vitues, real temple of God, whom even the great missionaries could not give more virtues because their Bhagwan had aleady endowed them traditionally. And don't forget, bhils are the most honest citizens of India who prefer to face natural death and die, rather than indulge in begging, borrowing and robbing. These factors are parts of non tribal cultures whom no one condemns such as the police in Bhilanchal whole day haunt the tribals as if they are the the only and biggest miscreants of the land. Only now since a few years, due to migration, physically broken down, a few Bhils are seen to make individual options to beg and borrow that too with utter shame and humiliation. In this context an internationally reputed Hindi poet of Jhabua(MP) says that 80% of the Bhils are honest and live by their own efforts where as in the cities or among the non tribals it is just opposite.

But in the midst of exploitation, deprivation, manipulation, migration, even when there is no food to eat for days together, deprived of most of the human rights cultural rights, and all other indigneous rights, they still sing, dance and smile freely with joy, believing firmly that one day their Good God( Bhol shall bless them and their home land Bhilanchal) with abundence. And that day the long awaited golden age will come. In this hope of millenarian live with joy because the style of life their culture provides.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

A TRIBAL PRINCESS OF ODE : RESTORED BHIL RIGHTS FOR WATER


Some centuries back, a tribal Princess called Kunwari Jasma Odeni, arrived in the city of Dhar from the ancient land of Khandesh (present district of Dhule in Maharashtra) accompanied by her team of Ode community. The Odes were famous for excavating water tanks in charity for the poor, needy and the marginalized peoples in those days of history. Seeing the pathetic conditions of the tribal and other peoples in the state of Dhar Jasma Odan excavated a water tank geneously which is being deepened these days by good civil administration in collaboration with the civilians of the town of Dhar today with the kind permission of King Bhoj.

The oral tradition of the Bhils say, that later the king of Dhar was infatuated by her rare beauty and expressed his desire to marry her. The beauty of Jasma is well narrated poetically in the folksongs of Bhil of women and Bhil legends. Noticing the infatuation of the king , Jasma quietly disappeared from the city of Dhar after completing her charitable job.

Jasma arrived to the anceient town of Bhagor, a capital of Bhago Bhil in the pre historic times. She made another gesture of charity by excavating the water tank of Bhagor and then later Jasma Odan marched towards west in the land of Gujarat, where she excavated for the deprived tribals the water tank of Dahod, called Sabyan nun Talav (water tank of Sabyan) also narrated in the oral tradition of the Bhils.

Today we need the persons like Kunvari Jasma Odan and Mama Baleshwar Dayal both of them are historically remembered and honored by being deified in the Bhilanchal, but the present politicians and the NGOs are being condemned by the Bhils for their vast areas of corruptions.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

TRIBAL MIGRATION

In the district of Jhabua (MP), the monsoons have failed, there is acute shortage of drinking water for men and animals both, no food and fodder, much worse, there is no availability of relief funds for the tribals except on the papers, consequently, the Bhils are migrating in large numbers to any place they find to migrate such as Rajasthan, Gujarat, etc. Government has no concern for them in real life for the poor and the needy tribals who are nearly 80 % of them below poverty line, not even one meal a day, not even drinking water available at home or in the village. All the rivers and lakes those regularly supplied water for villagers and the cattle’s are dry hence no source of springs for the wells.

There are no facilities for basic amenities such as food and water in Jhabua district which has received highest amount of funds for the tribal development... in the last three decades. Is there any record....? Should there be public accountability....? If it was with the tribals, with just 10 % of the funds they would have done better and complete jobs for the tribal development in the district...And now much worse, the tribal Sarpanches have acquired the habits of corruption from the non tribals. Certainly that has made progress and not what was supposed to be. In such a case is there any hope for the tribals.....?

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Friday, March 20, 2009

TRIBAL LINGUISTIC RIGHTS DAMAGED

Tribal or Adivasi India was the land of 98% of indigenous peoples in the country, who had their own languages, literature cultures and elements of folklore. In the course of time the invading peoples suppressed these indigenous peoples, their languages, cultures and folklore. And today, they are with no languages of their own, or they are still in the developing stages. But the languages of some of the major tribes of India, such as of Bhils, Bhilalas, Warlis, Gonds, Oraons, Khadia, Munda, Santhals , Nagas, etc are capable of delivering required goods to their own indigenous communities and serve effectrively the cultural or linguistic human rights which are the need of time. Some of the tribes , though demographically not large enough, but their literature is very rich and provide capabilities for modern day communications they need and sifficiently indicate to be useful intruments to be a means of tribal communications even for education and development within thier communities and in our country. This gives us encouragement and a strong linguistic ground to claim that the many if not most of the tribal languages have potentialities to be effective bearers of their own educational, economic and other forms of development.

In these cases, why to depend on the non functional elements of languages which are imposed on the tribals from outside by the non tribals, when they have their own means of communications. It is high time that the state Governments of India respect the tribal liguistic rights of the indigenous peoples of India and restore them in time without further breaching tribal human and cultural rights today.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

TRIBAL BHILS' YEARNING FOR EDUCATION

As a whole the Bhils are royal race of the past who controlled or ruled once upon a time a vast region of the Central, Northern and western part of the country. Historically all the castes and creed of peoples such as Aryans, Rajputs, Moguls, Marathas, British people and the rest, who encountered the Bhils, feared them for one or the other reasons. One such reason was a political one that the Bhils who are in such a great force numerically, may not rise against them as a political threat especially to demand for a separate Bhil state (Bhilanchal) within the Indian federation. For this hidden reason, the peoples of vested interests deprived the Bhils of their basic educational human rights, for the last many decades, which was their fundamental right as well as their most basic need of the time.. They are still deprived of quality education till today and more systematically and secretly than ever, fearing that they may rise and revive their political, cultural and social heritage and demand unitedly their other basic human rights especially a home for the Bhils ( Bhilanchal). And, when they are not educated it is easy to manipulate and misguide them. And that is what being done by the politicians, administration and NGOs repeatedly.

The present poem was composed by Mahipal Bhuriya the Bhil(tribal) poet in 1998, to bring educational, economic and other types of awareness among the Bhils, so that they can wake up, rise and demand their human rights.

In this context a boy lover, appeals to his girls friend to go to school for education. Since their Bhil community is deprived of it, hence easily cheated by traders and other castes of people.

DARLING !

Darling,
Our region is uneducated
Come, let's go to school,
Darling, all traders are educated ones
All the castes are literate.

Darling listen to me
If you study,
Later you will be happy.

Darling
Later we shall make romance
Dance on the ryhme of drums
On the beats of small drums too
And dance well
To the hearts satisfaction.

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SONG OF AWARENESS

Humble Prayer of a Bhil

The Bhils are very badly deprived and exploited by all, with no exception anywhere in the country. The 'Song of New Awareness' ( Chetna-Geet), originally composed in Bhili has been translated in many languages including German.This is the prayer of a humble and helpless Bhil against all the social, cultural, political forces in the country, for a new awareness to Bhagwan his Supreme deity. The Bhils are from pre historic times were rulling race, from whom the other invaders deprived them of their states, jal(water), jungle(forests) and jameen(land). They fought but no use, since they were defeated each time all through the centuries. It is a famous poem of Mahipal Bhuriya composed in 1977 and very much appreciated by Hindi media people. Dr. Nemichand Jain and other writers often quoted this piece of Bhili literature in their writings.

O Bhagwan!
There are lots of difficulties in my country
You make me alert
Against these here,.
We are simple and naive people
Hence cheated in this land
Do not avoid us
Hence make hast to help us.

Bring development in our land
And,
Show us the way
To progress in our land.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

ADIVASIKARAN


Best Way for the Protection of Tribal / Adivasi Human Rights

Some thirty years back various ethnic groups of India were seen making social and cultural revival of their societies at various levels in India. At first sight, I was very delighted to note that these cohesive efforts, being made in the country, will solidify all the citizen of India in one national mainstream of life. I was eagerly waiting to see ultimately the positive results of these cohesive efforts. But after two decades I began to feel very uneasy and insecure, as a member of an indigenous Indian ethnic group namely Bhils that my society had no respectful place in the main stream society since it was a caste ridden. And, if I allow myself and my people, the Bhils, to be guided in this context by the process of sanskritisation, at the end I shall be either Dalit, Shudra or Chandal and assimilated forever with no return. My land and other resources too shall be vanished by the higher castes and richer people, as it is already happening now and except media no one is to support the tribals or the indigenous peoples of the country. I also felt, no traces of my history, culture, folklore and society will be left over. They all shall be concealed or wiped out in near future. I shall totally lose my Adivasitva, speaking a language or languages totally strange to me.

My origin as a tribal will be lost forever. I shall be deceived since there shall no relationship with the upper castes of roti (bread) and beti (daughter)....! This shall be the tragic future of the nearly 80% of the population in the country. On the top, 8% people in the country shall not lose anything, their origin, name, identity and resources, but only gain at the cost of overall loss of 80%, possibly chandal, or dalit or shudra forever. Slavery, neo imperialism of powerful castes whose bondages no one shall be able to break. Who shall be the redeemer or the Messiah then of the 80% of these cultural and social slaves.....?

Many of my friends from Adivasi India, had similar problems for respectful survival but there was no satisfactory solution either thought by the indigenous peoples themselves, or provided by the social scientists of the country. But what then..? If all the educated tribals or the indigenous peoples are absorbed like in the national mainstream of India like this, as it is happening now, who shall give lead and be the voice of the illiterate and the ignorant ethnic groups of Adi-Vasi India.......? I did not cease to search for satisfactory solutions. I thought, once we were invaded and enslaved but now, we must fight by fair cultural means and should defend ourselves, otherwise we shall be assimilated in the lowest strata of the Indian society once again and possibly forever.

Several ideas emerged in our discussions. Lastly I thought that, while remaining rooted to our origin and culture, should bring in one solidarity, among all indigenous communities of India, innovate their our own cultures to suite the need of time, thus integrate all in the national mainstream of Indian society as dignified peoples of the country, maintaining our own original image. And this process I call Adivasikaran.

My friends and well wishes have liked the concept of ADIVASIKARAN as a means for respectful survival of indigenous peoples at present, we are sharing the idea of Adivasikaran with our friends and those engaged in protecting the human rights of Adivasi India whose culture was once upon a time the dominant factor and prime heritage of India.

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BHIDHA.: THE PUREST FORMS OF BHIL COURTS

Traditionally the tribals and other indigenous communities of India settled their village and community disputes by their own legal institutions based on their customary laws, such as in the case of Bhils it is called Bhidha. A Bidha is a form of Bhil Panchayat, folk court in which the Bhils settle their disputes, through referendum, transparency, instantly, cheaply, justly and the best way as compared to to the expensive, manipuative, corrupt, delayed, non transparent, and defactive system of today.

The present system of court, police, lawyers etc have made the tribal communities of India very poor. Their 60% of the hard earned money is invested by the pesent legal system for fighting justice which is beyond their means making them almost leading into huge debts, What is the use of such system in which non the tribals or indigenous peoples are benefiting but the non tribals. But the tribal way of maintaining law and order, protecting their human rights ,cultural rights, indigenous rights, in the case of the Bhils through Bidhas should be restored. The non tribals have introduced the court and other systems for the breaching of tribal rights and exploiting the tribals enormously. This has way of imposing 'imported' legal system is not of the tribals, which has weakened tribal communities of India since the tribal customs and cultural ways of life are not in keeping with the legal system which is introduced falsely, consequently they are exploited and looted through the present legal systems.

In the tribal system justice is immediate, cheap and transparent. The Bhil Bhidhas and Bhil Panchayats should be restored for the protection of their human, cultural and legal rights immediate effects...

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

YOUR OLD MANTILLA


(Mahipal Bhuriya is one of the most prominent tribal poet of India writing since over thirty years on the tribals oppression, exploitation, poverty, development and breaches of their human rights. 'Your Mantilla' is one of his famous poem appeared in many journals and magazines of Hindi.)
The poem composed originally in Hindi, about Bhil situation, expresses boldly how the tribal girls are physically, morally and emtionally exploited by non tribals.

Your Old Mantilla

On your
Old mantilla are engraved
Sad stories of your past
That is why
Do not change
Do not lose never cry
And by mistake
Never give to any one

Becuase
This is the only
Sign of your innocence
In life
Even though by hunger and change
You may be destroyed
And from this simple life
You may also depart

By cold and heat
Rain and spring
Continue wearing it
Throughout your life
Bearing the inhuman treatment
You may be destroyed
But
In the dark nights
In the days of hunger and starvation
By living among culprits
Remain always
Innocent only
And let that be
Turned into rags
Even then with more honour
In this situation
Let it cover your
All the months of the year
Because
This is the proof
That
What this society
Has given you
And
In you
You have found
Deceit, exploitation, descrimination, injustice and
dishonour
And
You never got full daily wages
And
For your human rights protection
Who has fought with courage
And sacrificed his own life ?
And that is why
To tell the world these stories
Couragously
Continue wearing this
Day and night.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

PANCHAYATS IN MADHYA PRADESH ARE UTTER FAILURE

The indigenous communities of India were by nature just and honest throughout the country. This is because they lived a God fearing religious life on which their local politics, social and cultural life, village and the state administration of their own was based deriving total inspiration directly from God, and not from any human being's teachings and his philosophy. They even did not deprive away the Roji Roti (daily bread) of other ethnic communities by false means such as occupying their territories and controlling their resources under any pretex. On the contrary untill today, they are the only ones honestly earning their bread in the country, not encroaching on any other ethnic communities geographical, social, cultural and relgious rights. Where do we find such honest souls and uncanonised saints in the urban setting of the country....?

It is for this reason the Panchayats of the indigenous peoples in the country like those of the tribals or Adivasis, and also the Panchayats of the indignous communities of the rural India were the relfection of God and hence Mahatma Gandhi called these Panchayats as Pach Parmeshwar. But these assocations were damaged and replaced by the newly developed corrupt system. Mama Baleshwar Dayal of Bamnia, Jhabua District (MP) had least trust in newly formed Panchayati Raj for delivering benefits to the indigenous peoples. He often told the Bhil of Jhabua that the Panchayati Raj formate in totality should go to Delhi from you the Bhils then only it will develop a true system for the local self-governence. Now his prophetic words have come to be trure.

A prominent Hindi daily of the country called 'Nai Duniya' (March 15, Indore , 2009)published an important headline in this context on it's front page saying 'Aksham Panchayati Raj" meaning useless or least effective local self governence due to the wide spread corruption, lack of its true formation, not tested in time like the reliability of the Bhil Panchayats through out India, and then the reputed Hindi daily gives a host of reasons of its failure supported by the Madhya Pradesh Governemnt's report concering it and suggesting ways and means to improve.

This clearly indictes that the values, morality, social and cultural norms are historically found among the indigenous peoples who were and are far better, even prior to the interference by the outsiders. It is the high time that the those who interfered should learn commonly practised and inherited morality from the indigenous peoples and also how to be honest, transparent, just and upright in public dealings and most of all in the public administrations.


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TRIBAL COURTS DAMAGED, JUSTICE DELAYED AND DENIED

Once upon a time, not before, only 30 years back, each of the indigenous communities of the Tribal India or Adivasi India had beautiful, transparent, quick and communitarian style granting mathematical justice, at a very cheap cost at home in the villages itself. No outisde agencies were involed especially the huge corruption, expenses, beyod tribals family income and the type of system accommodable and unacceptable with various forms of manipulations. It was based on the Divine will holy and sublime values traditionally. There was no need of any change except for the benefits of the the outsiders.The outsiders made cultural encroachments in the inner life of the tribals of Adivais and made irretievable damages making their life unhappy, difficult especially in the legal system and to their other areas of human and cultural rights. The conventional or the cutomary laws were very good, those governed their lives were based on good and sublime values and not as the corrupted agencies such as police, lawyers, dalals and the courts are dealing today. Through these agencies the tribals are totally subjugated and surrenderd to injustice, further deprivation , oppressions and exploitation with no human right consideration of legal and traditional systemof maintenance of beautiful and just system of their own.

Only contrary, the outsiders, fabricated loosely some sort of non-practical system called Gram Panchayats, not fitting in the indigenous communities social and cultural system, not based on each ethnic communities cultural perception, values.. A damage whose reparation cannot be done that has harmed indigenous peoples happiness, unity, village solidarity and the rest.

The traditional indigenous systems must be revived for the imparting just and pure justice, maintenance of indigenous law and order without any further delay.Relaying on the newly introduced corrupted practices will make further flow of money of the indigenous communities to the non tribals.


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Sunday, March 15, 2009

BHURIYA Vs BHURIYA




Jhabua was rulled once upon a time by the Bhils of Bhuriya clan(gotra / jat). Later on when the Muslim invasions turned out to be irresistible, the Rathore dynasty of Raputs of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, alienated the Bhil land in this Bhagor/Jhabua region and annexed the power in their favour. Ever since the Bhuriya Bhils were deprived of their original land or traditional state of the Bhils.

But now in the free India, from the time of Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru, the Bhuriya (clan) of Bhils of Jhabua who are also called Bada Bhuriyas (since they rulled earlier) once again begun to rule the region in democratic India, both under Congress and also under Bharatiya Janata Party. The region once again gets two candidates this year for the forth coming Lok Sabha elections(2009). The two Bhuriyas are: Kantilal Bhuriya the sitting Memeber of Parliament and State Minister for Agriculture of Govermnment of India and ex-MP Dileepsingh Bhuriya. Fomer will contest on the Congress ticket, and later on BJP. A few weeks later will be declared the results of the General election which will decide the future of the Bhil region, and not so much of the candidates.What shall happen to the Bhil region is the basic problem of Jhabua(now renamed as Ratlam seat including Jhabua and Alirajpur districts which are main habitats of Bhils).

As such the media are also pointing that aleady in renaming the region, both the Bhuriyas should have raised their voices in favour of Jhabua, which is the region of the older region of the Bhils and the most voters fall in this area as well. It already indicates that the spirit of favoring human right issues or tribal of Adivasi human right issues are not primary concerns of both the Bhuriyas. In this context namely of the human rights of the indigenous population, what more can be expected of both of them.....?

Whichever party or candidate may win, but the region has constantly remained neglected, backward, unattended and desolate as even part of the aspiration of over all deprived and neglected peoples are hardly touched. Especially the areas of human rights such as right to food, employment, education, health, culture, language, transportation, agricultural development, drinking water facilities, etc. The Bhils of this region are independently self employed. The Rojgar Guarantee schemes are hidden in files. Call it human or any other right , 98% of the population of this place have been largely ignored, except for the demanding funds for this backward community. It is time for the Bhil people, to make options not only for the third front, rather for the fourth one, who will on priority basis look into these grave issues of the human rights of the indigenous peoples and restore them after the forth coming LS elections, justice, equality, fraternity in all the areas of human rights as the great Constitutions of India promises......!

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

KAE MORII



An Internationally Reputed Japanese Poet Expressing Human Values and Human Rights in Her Poetry.

Kae Morii is an internationally known Japanese poetess, well known for her poetry throughout English speaking countries of the world. Kae Morii has received many famous awards and recited poetry in the international gatherings of reputed and serious poets, gaining recognition and high appreciation.

Some of the important books of her poetry are:

A Red Currant, 1997
Homage to the Light, 2003
The Light of Lapis Lazuli, 2003
The Wind With Me, 2006
Over the Endless Night, 2008
Cabbage Field & Wind Power Generators, in Romania, 2008

Besides these the poetry of Kae Morii has appeared in the international collections, reputed magazines in the countries like Japan, USA, Korea, Taiwan, Greece, Mongolia, France, etc...

Kae Morii effectively participated in the Poetry Congresses of : WCP Korea (2004), WCP LA (2005), WCP Mongolia (2006), WCP India (2007), Poetry Festival with Laureate Poets USA (2007), Poetry Festival International de la a Paris (2007), Kae Morii Aawarded for Fairy Tale 1998, Award of Poetry Education 1999, Award of Literature in Mongolia 2006, Member of Japan Poet Club, WAAC, WPS.

Today Kae Morii is one of the most active, well respected and reputed poet of the world who deserves our appreciation. Here two important poems are:

MISERERE
On the day I were back to the earth

I wish to believe
Never the richness is put one's sacrifice
In unfamiliar countries

Never beautiful flowers on a table
Are at the price of died ones on lonesome land
To keep the balance of market

Ever the circulation of life is cut off
By prepossession and discrimination
In behalf of spice to white dish

I wish to believe
The technology is told us
To make the future children more wise

I do wish to believe
Everlasting peace is the truth of our wish.




FIRE DRAGON
Crack and sparkling fireworks in the night sky

In the overflow
Surely the fire dragon stays tumbling about

Oleander is blooming
Morning is coming from the horizon
The muddy glasses are taken out from the ground
Among the mountains
The fire dragon is tumbling about

Matched game aims for one
But the square root of one is not merely one
The bloody clothes are taken out from the ground
Between the people
Surely the fire dragon stays tumbling about

It comes disappearing and appearing
In the flood of time.

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HUMAN RIGHTS TO PROCURE FOOD BY ADIVASI BHIL WOMEN





In the age of globalization, the Adivasi Bhil women are responding the economic needs with equal measures. They have learnt the methods of collective bargaining and the economic value of their home grown or locally procured commodities. In this context the efforts made by Pragati an indigenous NGO of Jhabua (MP) India has done commendable job by organizing the tribal Bhil women to be active in taking initiatives towards their human rights for food main and then for the trading rights, environmental rights, empowering themselves for other activities in which tribal and main stream society would not encourage them to pursue.

PRAGATI the local NGO organized by a Bhil named Malhing Kattara(39) together with some enthusiastic Bhil youth animated the Bhil women of Jhabua district to form some 570 Self Help Groups(SHG) instead of constantly depending on the unreliable government and the irregular foreign funds. In each of these 570 SHG there are 10 to 12 members. Jhabua district has enough of scope for the SHG activities since it has 85% of the tribal population, but most of NGOs in this district wholly depend for the foreign funds, not for the benefits of the human , social or cultural rights of the tribals or the indigenous peoples development but mostly 80% for their own development, and hence they flock to Jhabua in large numbers.

The SHG Bhil women of Jhabua have monthly meetings according to their own cultural rights and social traditions, in a language called Bhili understandable to them in their own cultural style or Adivasi Bhil women’s Panchayats. The Government type of introduced panchayats are not suitable to them. In these monthly meetings they discuss about their immediately felt needs, and not the needs as felt by the NGOs for their own selfish advantage. Those issues and the agendas are:

Children’s education, health & hygiene, water conservation, environment(social & and physical), reducing alcoholism and bride price, more empowerment women, etc.
Out of these 570 SHG practically all of them are successful in their ventures for the human rights. To our surprise, all of them send their children to schools against the popular views that tribals cannot be educated and the tribal children do not want to go to schools. On the contrary, the non tribals since 30 years are not taking interest in teaching them, other wise they say that the tribals shall control their own local or indigenous resources. Many started saving 35 to 100 Rs. in banks contrary to past years when they were in perennial debts. This amount appears small but amount to one to two days salary for a tribal/Adivasi woman’s daily wage. Nearly 500 women have wormy pits and bio-organic manure pits for sale and demonstration for the other women and for the use in their own fields.

Also 5 members only sale worms who produce high quality of bio-organic manure thus earn 5 to 8 thousands rupees annually where as they were in debts almost 15 to 50 thousands earlier. Others are involved in making and marketing washing powder, growing country chicken of India called Kadaknath and other fowls, goats, bricks, petty shops, tailoring, bead ornaments making, spies, growing vegetables at home, making candles, sell cotton and Mohuwa(flower for making alcohol), purchase and sell of castles, etc. Thus all of them make double or more profit for themselves , meeting the domestic needs and saving small amounts for the days to come.

If the rights of the tribal/Adivasis/indigenous peoples to be preserved, promoted and restored, then indigenous people are to be made self sufficient and self reliant in every field. Today love for the indigenous brethren only they have and the non tribals have love their resources such as money, power and positions. Then only there shall come equality, self initiatives which is destroyed by the non tribals. Others including Church personals introduced dependency , impoverishment and non transparency.

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TRIBAL HUMAN RIGHTS & BHIL WOMEN

Over the last 40 years, the traditional role of the Bhil women in the problems sunk society of the Bhils in Bhilanchal has dramatically changed. This spontaneous change has occurred on the tribal scene, not due to the willful desire the women to follow the uncommitted directions given by the NGOs, to follow pace of tribal development in the country, but as a genuine and felt reaction from within to creatively respond to what is happening around them and what is being imposed by the outsiders, administrators and others as unjust, inappropriate and related to their overall human rights in the Bhil society. Both in the public places, such as markets and in village community gatherings. The Bhil women are on the fontline to protect their tribal and women's human rights in Adivasi Bhil community of Bhlanchal. Such a response one might say is a miracle, as the traditionally Bhil women , are submissive, hardworking, lovers of folk arts compared to tribal Bhil men folks, since they live in patriarchal Bhil society.

The response of Adivasi Bhil women, to protect their human rights, comes on the forefront of their mind in society, is due to their self awareness basically, as the part of their psychic intolerance to what is taking place publically and secretly around them, socially, culturally, politically and even educationally not in favour of their largely disrespected tribal human and women's rights by non tribals everywhere.

The educated men in the towns of Bhilanchal think that the Bhil women are stupid and unaware of their hidden corrupt practices. But the Bhil women are honest, shrewd, intuitive and able to see through the corrupt behavior of the non tribals in all the departments of administration of the Governments of various states. One can see this in the nukhad nataks the Bhil women artistically perform, folksongs they compose and sing with innovative themes in public, animational programmes they organise, exhibit very much towards the protection of human rights issues in the society, relating to their Bhili language, culture, products, politics, developmental funds, education of their children, police, legal system, and other tribal human rights and so on. Even in the public and private life, it is the women folks who have legally and innovatively reacted to protect and promote tribal human rights. If all the social workers, sincerely animate the Bhil women, one can say that in the short span of time, the Bhilanchal shall not need any corrupt NGOs to guide them, rather the Bhil women shall guide the NGOs as it is being witnessed in the rural areas of Bhilanchal.

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Friday, March 13, 2009

TRIBAL COURTS / ADIVASI PANCHAYAT

In the ancient times untill recent years, the indigenous communities of India had their own way of imparting justice and maintaining of law and order situation in the country which was Just, Quick, mathematical, cheaper and Honest one through their own indigenous panchayat and not the fabricated one made at the time of Nathuram Mirdha and others.

The indigenous peoples of the country like Tribals, Dalits and Other Backward Classes(OBC) who are more than 2000 today, had their own way of maintaining legal system which was much cheaper, honest, quick, transparent, mathematical and quick as comparred to the corrupt, expensive where justice is also since delayed, denied.

In the tribal communities of India even today these traditional customs, norms and values are prevalent every where including the 80% of the indigenous population of the country. Only the Government has overtaken the legal responsibility at the cost of huge expenses, delay in imparting justice and where tribal / Adivasi / indigenous communities are financially and other ways get burdened, exhausted ending themselves in huge debts in every village for no benefits of their own except those dealing their files and papers.

This is one of the reason why the tribal India is getting poorer and poorer, year after year, and the money is getting accumulated in the hands of those who are growing reacher and depriving them, at the cost of these tribal communities.

The tribals/Adivais/indigenous communities have their own conventional laws to safeguard their human rights and cultural rights which are breached by the more able ones to improve in a way their own situation and imposing their own way of life style which causes lots of harm, delay justice, impoverishing them totally and subjugating at last in several ways. In this field the harm done and human rights breached are beyond all repartition and measures in all possible ways. Even though in the recent times the Government of India has enancted lots of good laws in support of the weaker, marginalised, nomads, indiginous, Adivasis and tribal in other words for the benefits of the deprived ones. But it proved contrary, instead of improving the situation of the tribals or Adivasis it is regressing and deteriorating further. Then what is the advantage of maintaining such corrupt and unhealthy system....?

Today the situation demands to revive healthy and more practical tribal system which is totally transparent, just, their own or indigenous panchayat. Why to 'import' and impose which can not be assimilated and integrated only causing harm to the tribal communities at the cost of human rights and cultural rights. The tribals or Adivasis should go back to older system of the Adivasi Panchayats / Tribal Courts in India, which were pure, quick, cheaper and a hundred times better than the one introduced for the well being of non tribals.

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ADIVASI WOMEN OF JHABUA

As such the civil district of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh is one of the most backward district in India in everything. Over the last 30 to 60 years Government of India and of Madhya Pradesh have spent billions and billions of Rupees each year including other agencies and NGOs for the Adivasi development. But the district has not improved a bit since the persons involved did not invest themselves and the funds towards gaining desired goals by the Central and state Governments, and the funds went elsewhere. It appears at first sight that all the claims made for the tribal development are false and the helpless tribals are forced to migrate, most of the time of the year nearly 70% this year (2009) to distant places in the country as far as Goa, Delhi, Ajmer and other places in search of daily wages. It is a grave matter of concern for research for the national and the international agencies, social scientists and media persons, that at last in whose pockets the funds have gone....?

The tribals who have gone outside of the state, especially to Gujarat have leart more than what the NGOs in the home district teach them. Because the NGOs themselves are breedding on the tribal resources with practically no exceptions including those run by the christian missionaries. Seva(service) is left aside since a good life style supported by the tribals funds gains upper hand. Hence in spite of these NGOs some of them working in the Seva of the tribals for the last 100 years, have no results to be proud of since they did not direct these tribals towards desired goals except making them further dependent and depriving their chances of developement in life and continually making of false claims of tribal service.

Amidst all deprivation, breach of human and cultural rights or indigenous rights the Adivasis, the Bhil women have begun to change their traditional trade from agriculture to daily labour, to l trade some small items which are their own products, in which they were constantly cheated and there was no protection for their human right issues such as this, not even from the state except their existence of these provisions on papers. In this aspect a scene of total failure is visible all round.

On the 4th of March, 2009, some 2000 Adivasi Bhil women of the district of Jhabua assembled together to display their products from nearly 20 self help groups(SHG) from within the district animated by Pragati(social service society) in a village called Bhadaria some 18 KM North of the district of Jhabua in MP. These womem displyed the bio-organic manure, wormy manure, carrots, and various types of agricultural products of this maure such as vegetables including bead ornaments, their own prepared dresses, like ghaghra, saree, polka(blouse), spices, indigenous variety of chicken( Kadaknath), washing powder, candles, . Within 2 to 3 years hundreds of these Adivasi Bhil women, saved good amount of money by their own self initiatives promted or animated by Malhing Kattara of Pragati from the local area.

The Impact of the venture was notable one. Sulochana Bhuriya(22) an animator of the Pragati says that Adivasi Bhil women who changed their traditional trade and began to personally involve in this sort of home industry so to say are dressing better, appear happy and confident, their income increased, now they have more money available at home, their children are supported regularly for better education, more children go to schools, even colleges, better food , learnt some marketing skills, began to protect their own human rights and seen over all change in their outlook towards life.

Needless to say if the money came for the tribals, if spent only 5%, the Bhils of Jhabua would have changed their life remarkably and would appear on the tribal scene better. The calamity prevails because of denial of their human and cultural rights and they are being forced to be semi nomads each....!

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

GAL : THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONY OF THE BHILS



The Bhils have very complex relgious ceremonies traditionally inherited. The tribal anthropology of the Bhils does not portray this beautiful and sublime aspect, since the social and cultural anthropology of the tribal India has certainly and intentionally neglected especially by the Indian universities and even what is available is based on the social and cultural prejudices not done justice to the cultural traditions of the majority of the population of India which is 80% in the country. Many tribes of India like Warlis, Santhal, Mundas, Khadia, Oraons have beautiful values, world views and the supernatural world of the tribal India significantly portray this aspect, a times better than their Hindu bretheren of the plains. Some foreign scholars of cultural anthropology have done justice to the tribal anthropology, tribal folklore and tribal history in Chhotanagpur, Gondwana, and North East. In the case of the Bhils the Vienna school of cultural anthropology has contributed significantly to the proper understanding of the tribal anthropology of the Bhils as compared to India scholars. In this case two names should be specially pointed such as of Dr. Wilhelm Koppers SVD and Leo Jungblut SVD.

The thanks giving rite of god Gal, portrays uniquely the elements of tribal anthropology with no corruption in the tribal tradition of the Bhils from other sources like Hindus, Muslim, Jain, Budhists, etc.

There is long myth prevalent in the oral literature of the Bhils of Central and Western India which describes that a Bhil named Khando Ravji was facing an irksome and difficult and almost an impossible situation, since the kind had imprisoned him. In this circumstance khando Ravji took an oath in honour of god called Gal promising that if he is freed from the prison, he would offer him a thanks giving sacrifice as it is done through Gal rite or ritual. His wish was granted. Later according to the promise made to the god Gal, Khado Ravji offered honestly the thanks giving sacrifice and popularised the ceremony of Gal Dev among the Bhils of Central and Western India.

Rita Wiesinger a cultural anthropologist from Austria has studied in details the festival of Gal in her monograph popular among the Bhils of Jhabua(MP) India . In this case the Bhils, men only take vow to the god Gal for granting them favours in the impossible situation. And when granted they fulfill the vow by climbing over to a high Machan(platform made of wood) and go round upon it in the swinging form 3-4-5- or 7 times. And while the devottee comes down from the machan, offer a sacrifice of a goat, slaying its head and smearing its blood at the foot of the Machan main pole symbolising the god Gal.Then they return home for sharing meal with their friends and relatives.The festival of Gal occurs after the burning of Holi on the fooling evening or afternoon.

The festival of Gal is exclusively of the Bhil origin popular in whole of Bhilanchal. It is an indigenous festival of India, culturally and folklorically unique to the tribal anthropology of India.

For the thanks giving rite the devotee who takes an oath to god Gal, goes to several Bhagoria markets in the Bhilanchal, dressed in white turban, red clothe rapped round his body, white dhoti round his waist, kajal in the eyes, turmeric on his body, accompanied by girls belonging to his clan singing folksongs in honour of his oath and god Gal.

This indicates that the Bhils have rich folklore, strongly religious in outlook, cultural values, sincere and selfless in their devotion, which non tribals either looked down, unaware, igrorant or did not recognise the traditions of tribal India. Certainly as the pragmatic aspect of tribal cultures, we find that the tribals in this case the Bhils have better religiosity than many of the religious traditions of India and world religions.

As such there are a few hundred spots where the thanks giving ceremony to god Gal are offered in Bhilanchal with great reverence, honour, discipline, crisis-management, honesty, self-purity, and so on. The greatest thing is to be observed is that the Bhils have managed and are managing their own social and cultural gatherings of even large numbers. Both state and Central Governments have made great damage a times to the Bhil management, Bhil Panchayats, Bhil religion, including outsiders by not recongnising, honouring, and introducing the coruupt systems from outside in the fields of social, cultural, legal areas. The gatherings of Gal and other places are the proofs of the same. Will the good govenments, social scientists, NGOs, even miisionaries ever understand that the Bhils and other tribals are more honest, honest citizens, just, in many ways......?

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

THE CULTURAL PRACTICES AND FOLKLORIC OBSERVENCES OF BHIL HOLI

The festival of Holi is very popular among the Bhils of Central and Western India. It is celebrated with great care, fun, romance and variety among the members of the tribe and the Bhil folk community. As the tribal folklore is, an appropiete hour is fixed through the cultural observences to set fine to the burning of Holi. Holi is the main wood covered by a number of wood for burning at night by the village community of the Bhils. The main wood is considered to be holy or scared.

The drums are played in the evening, folksongs are sung by girls and women of the village, and some where around at mid night or later the Holi is consumed to by flames. Prior to the burning of Holi, Bhil virgins, women and men folks offer sweets and distritue part of it to the participants present, Men offer alcohol to Holi as part of thier sign and symbol of reverence and devotion.In the evening at the Holi burning sights dances are performed, folksongs are sung, drums and other musical instruments are played and much fun takes place including defamation of evil by abusing . It is at this sight the virls boys and girls break their fast too.
When the Holi is burt , villagers take back to their houses the burning wood considered to be good.

The following day, boys, girls, men and women eat, drink dance and make merry. Groups of dancers go house to house collecting fund for further enjoyment. A beautiful sight in Bhilanchal, tribal culture, cultural rights, folklore, adivasi way of life becomes alive. A sight that is socially, culturally considered to be unique by visitors from ouside of Bhilanchal and India. Should it not be allowed and encouraged to exist as it is....?

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BHOOKDYUN HAAT(HUNGERY MARKET) OF BHILANCHAL

The tribals of India have variety of folklore and cultural practices of their own, unlike their Hindu bretheren of towns and countryside. One such folkloric practice is 'fast' on the eve of burning of Holi, a festival popular among the indigenous communities of India. In fact it is a Hindu folklore but introduced by the Brahmins of India as part of sanskritisation.

In whole of tribal India especially in Bhilanchal, a severe fast is maintained prior to the burning of Holi which takes place in the evening of midnight as the selected time goes. The day or time before the burning of Holi is considered to be sacred and all the evil is to be consumed by fasting and later by burning of Holi in its flames, is the strong belief of the tribal India including of the Bhils.
The Bhil virgins especially including men and women of the Bhil community fast, visit to the markets of Bhilanchal, purchase, coconutts, sweets for the Holi offering and breaking of fast which ceremonially takes place in each one's family some time at the sunset.

This market which is not a weekly one, but that is visited on the eve of Holi burnig is named by the Bhils of Bhilanchal as 'Bhookdyun Haat' literally meaning hungery market or the day of fast in its core spirit of Holi festival. The tribals of India celebrate Holi festival in their own cultural manner or folkloric way which now being influenced by Hindu way of celebrating of the festival of Holi. The Bhookdyun haat of Jhabua this year was on 10th of March 2009. There were ample number of Holi fasters especially Bhil virgins, singing folk songs of Holi and fast, dancing on the beat of drums was clearly seen in the town . Large number of girls were seen standing in the market places at every nuke and corners singing in unison Bhili folksongs. Similar sights were reported in Petlawad, Thandla, Jobat and other parts of Bhilanchal.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

TRIBAL FOLKLORE, FOLK MEDICINES, FOLK TRADE AND INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS....?

Of late it was discovered by some of the NGOs in the district of Jhabua(MP) that the eco-friendly or natural colours marketed for Holi festival and other events was beautifully and conveniently prepared for commercial reasons from an indigenous flower called Khihodi(Kishuk Kusum) from the tree called Khankhra in Bhili language(Palash/Tesu). Till very recent times Khihodi was sold in the Bhil markets only for a through away price on 5 Rupee ( 10 penny of a USA $) a kilo. One Bhil man or a woman even if he or she works for ten hours a day, will be a able to collect maximum 2 kilos. With that they can purchase food for a small child and what about for the rest of the family members at home and also medicines for the the sich at home....? But today an indigenous NGO working in the district of Jhabua called Pragati under the leadership of a Bhil named Malhing Kattara sold or bought it for Rupee 150 per kilo thus fetching enough money to purchase much needed daily food, for for the hungrary, deprived and oppressed tribals to whom even the legitimately alloted relief funds for making available themselves food, do not reach. Most NGOs are enjoying the foreign funds coming for the tribal development and never looking into such important matters at home. They even end up their projects often saying that the tribals are not interested in their development where as the NGOs are developing themselves further depriving the indigenous communities.Only the % of deprivation of tribals by the NGOs will vary compared to the public sector persons.

Similarly there are many home grown, locally growing and small forest produce of the Bhil jungles are marketed for negligible price, or often cheated by the non tribal traders, habits of whom are now penetrating in the tribal way of social and cultural life polluting these naive and innocent peoples to oppress and manipulate their own. Items of this type are herbs and many such useful things for day today life could be easily valued for the folk medicines, folk commerce, folk human right or indigenous rights, human rights, Bhil rights in Jhabua, as inseparable part of tribal property for trading and earning income for the their community income generation. In the late eighties of the last century, Mama Baleshwar Dayal did envisage a an ambitious and indigenous tribal plan for the cheap treatment of the Bhils, income generation programme and also for retaining the tribal money in their own community as the Jain community does. But the Government of India did not value the proposal and project of Mama Baleshwar Dayal remained hidden in the dusty files of Government of India.

In every tribal district of India especially among the Warli region, Gond region, Oraon, region, etc these types of deprivations are at stake. The Bhils are being deprived and exploited thus is various hidden ways impoverishing them not only socially, commercially, politically, culturally but in small little way like this. Will there come a day, when the tribal India will see a situation where their human rights are respected by the main strea community at least in small little ways....?

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Monday, March 9, 2009

THE BHIL BHAGORIA OF JHABUA 2009

The Bhil Bhagoria a traditional feast of love and romance was celebrated with much beauty amidst the splashing of colours, dancing on beats of huge tribal made indigenous drums, enchanting of the traditional love songs, eating of pans, exchanging of gifts, swinging on the jhoolas, etc. The Bhagoria festival was held in Jhabua the district head quarter, on the 8th of March 2009.

Some three hundred Bhil dhols(drums) together with with mandals, kundis, thalis, shahnais were played with much enthusiasm to express love and romance in traditional tribal and indigenous way. Over 50 thousand Bhil youth mostly together with men and women of the Bhil folks danced on this day from morning till evening untill sun set.The whole community of Bhils wait for this day, which is the last weekly market prior to the Hindu festival of Holi.

The previous member of Lok Sabha Mr. Dileep Singh Bhuriya and the present member of the Lok Sabha Mr. Kantilal Bhuriya too participated with much joy in the celebration of Jhabua and other Bhagoria festivals together with their friends. But the participation of the VIP personalities add no glamour to the tribal way of celebration of Bhagoria. It is but a communitarian and individual way of expression love, folklore, romance and joy to refill their lost energies for which the Bhils even after migrating to some far off land return to this geographical land of the Bhils. It is but a unique celebration to mark an indigenous tribal, cultural, social events on earth which can be witnessed in the midst of these Adivasi peoples,. which cannot be desribed in few words but witnessed only ....

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

THE WARLI TRIBALS

The Warli tribal’s are the one of the oldest tribal groups of Western India. Even the Govt. of India and of Maharashtra have introduced hundreds of developmental projects, the situation of Warlis of Maharashtra, like many tribal groups in other parts of India is still not better.
The Warlis of Devai in Vasai of the Thane district in Maharashtra is deplorable one. They still live by hand to mouth inspite of many developmental projects. Naresh Kovte of Vasai in this part of the country is still illiterate and poor with his other members of the tribe. Only the children of this community have begun to go to schools. He climbs on the coconut and other trees felling its fruits, besides doing all type of jobs to make his living. It is these types of people living in the vicinity of Mumbai need development and not those who are in the muti national companies.

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

ANCIENT HISTORY CULTURE 7 FOLKLORE OF ADIVASI INDIA

Ancient India was the land of Indigenous / Adivasi / tribal or Deshaj peoples who in the anthropological language are called autochthons. Gradually in the course of time more powerful people encroached in their habitats and enslaved them socially, culturally, politically and religiously them in North and Central India. The well known autochthons among these peoples whose history and culture had already developed to a certain level were the Nishads, Nags, Bhils, Gonds, Santhals, Warlis, etc such indigenous groups of the country.

Today their folklore and culture is in great danger of vanishing due to the lack of recognition by the more able peoples or castes of India. One idea is being popularised that the traditional identity of these 85% peoples be conveniently vanished and that they be assimilated in the Dalits category. A historical fact or mistake that no one shall absolve them, hence it is the time to alert the persons working for the overall human and cultural rights of Adivasis, poor, marginalised and indigenous peoples, to take a note to study the ancient history, traditional culture, folklore and original identity of these 85% peoples of India.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

BHAGORIA 2009 BEGINS TOMORROW

The Bhil festival of love and romance of Western India begins tomorrow as the last weekly market prior to the Hindu festival of Holi. As it is much talked and discussed earlier in these pages, due to the acute shortage of rains in the Western India, failures of crops, fall in the annual income in the Tribal or Adivasi villages, the celebration of the the festival of Bhagoria will be badly affected.

As such the tribals who have migrated in the distant lands, in search of daily wages have already begun to return to their Bhil Habitats for the annual celebration of this festival. In the tribal region of the Bhagoria Bhils, in some 10-12 weekly markets shall host the festival of Bhagoria tomorrow, starting with the Bhagoria festival of Kalyanpura some 20 k.m. away from the district head quarter of Jhabua. Even though the Bhils have returned with some hard earned money from the distant places, but it shall be interesting to note whether they shall save this money for food, medicine, repay of loans etc, or the romance in which they spend more than their capacity.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

TWENTY SEVEN TRIBALS DIE OF ONE MARRIAGE PARTY

Last week a tribal marriage party of the Bhils was gladly returning mounted in three normal size tractors from a village called Bedavalli near Meghnagar railway station to their village Umria some 30 km away in a hilly region near Bamania Railway station on Delhi-Mumbai railway line. On the way near Agral village, one of the tractors met with a serious accident with a cement loaded truck, killing 27 members of the marriage party. Some 16 of the Bhils mounted, died on the spot without any first aid and the rest them in the Civil Hospital of Madhya Pradesh Government at the district hospital in Jhabua, while further suffering the negligence by the Government doctors. Among those who died, where of one clan (gotra) among whom three familys members were completely vanished in the fatal accident and others were men, women and children.

Due to the poverty they hire or ride cheap means of transportation which are technically not very safe, no insurance and sufficient compensation for the casualties suffered. The ones who died after the accident being wounded badly did not get sufficient medical assistance in the civil hospital of Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.

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