MAMAYAN

Human Right Teachings of Mama Baleshwar Dayal

Mama Baleshwar Dayal was one of the greatest persons of the 20th century who led the ancient warring and violent race, called the Bhils in the Freedom Movement of India. He introduced an ideal notion or model of Adivasi Seva in Bhilanchal by his genuine life of a humble and simple Adivasi Sevak for the last 6 decades of the last century. He arose to the Adivasi human right scene for the protection of much neglected or marginalized indigenous peoples of the country for the last over 20 centuries for which Mahatma Gandhi, Thakkar Bapa, Ram Manohar Lohia and many other socialist leaders of the 20th and 21st century hold him in high esteem. Under the leadership of Mama the Bhils too contributed their due share in various ways in the Freedom Movement of India. Mama Baleshwar Dayal was earlier an active Congress Party worker since his college days. But later when he was rusticated from college, escaped to Jhabua region to take shelter in Jhabua State, he saw the perilous conditions of the Bhils in the state.

Mama was deeply moved experiencing himself the social pathologies of the Bhils in the 12 Princely states of Bhilanchal including Jhabua while leading morchas for their rights going even to jail, fought for the Bhil human rights for which Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru disagreed with Mama. Mama was against the breaches of Bhil rights in the 12 Prince States of Bhilanchal region. Pandit Nehru did not favour the Bhils but the Deshi Maharajas, due to which Mama strongly disagreed with Pandit Nehru and immediately left the Congress party and joined the team of then socialist leaders headed by Ram Manohar Lohia and others. Mama led the Bhils for the first General election and won many seats for the socialist party in Bhilanchal.

Mama the socialist leader hails from U.P. Mahipal Bhuriya the human rights worker of the tribal or Adivasi India and the India tribal human rights activist has written an important book in Bhili the language of the Bhils, entitled 'MAMAYAN'. The book 'Mamayan' based on the 50 important teachings of the great socialist leader and the Bhil Guru Mama. The font memories of Mama the Bhil Guru shall never be wiped from the memories of the Bhils to whom they worship today as a deified hero. In several places of Bhilanchal Mama's life size statues are erected, temples are built, Bhajans are recited, and the Bhils offer him aarti, pooja, observe fast and organise festivals in Bhilanchal increasingly today.

The book comprises of the 50 main teachings of Mama Baleshwar Dayal. It is based on the from oral sources in Bhili and the oral tradition or authentic oral narrations of the disciples of Mama from among the Bhils and non-Bhils. Among all the books written on Mama this is most authentic book since it is based on the life experiences of Bhils Mama's own simple and naive disciples in Bhilanchal. Mamayan is an interesting volume waiting for a publisher to support its printing. These relevant teachings shall redeem, improve, empower and enhance the Bhils in all possible ways in Bhilanchal, protect the Bhil over all tribal rights and alert them from the fraud ones, misleading NGOs. Besides, all these it shall also protect over all human rights of the Bhils and other tribes in India and serve as a model for the ideal tribal service (Adivasi seva) and not as a fraud that many NGOs are indulging in Bhilanchal. Hence the book MAMAYAN should be printed and published so that the admirers and followers of Mama should familiarise and re-vitalise the valuable teachings of their unforgettable Bhil Guru and the great socialist leader of India.

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