BHIL MARRIAGE AND FOLKLORE

The ancient indigenous communities of India who are today more than 500 namely the Adivasis or the tribals have something to retain through their oral tradition. This whole of their oral tradition including material, verbal and performing art altogether comprises of their valuable folklore of the indigenous society. Much of the elements of indigenous folklore are assimilated in the Hindu society as their own. A systematic retention, collection, codification and research has deprived from storing their tribal communities of the age old ancestral heritage. These elements certainly should be treated individual properties of these tribes, rather than calling them as Hindu culture, thus depriving them further of having something good and sublime in their social and cultural life.
In this heap of Adivasi folk-culture of India, there are massive elements of tribal of folklore one better than the other.

One of the rite, ritual, custom or tradition relating to marriage among the Bhils of Western India, depict over a hundred of such romantic, colourful and historical elements of their ancient symbols of folklore. Owing to honest and just documentation, and proper support by the Government of India including of the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan Gujarat and Maharashtra, the beautiful and significant folklore of the Bhils in these states is vanishing.

The folkloric elements of Bhil marriage, we see today still persisting are the reading of omens, solidarity of the clansmen, hospitality, sharing of views, clan council, singing of hundreds of folksongs, folkdances, plastering and beautifying of the houses, paintings, tattoos, totems, participation in folk duties traditionally assigned to various age and sex groups, community games, tribal orchestra, mimicries, clan competitions, deciding of bride price, presentation of gifts, sharing of country liquor, costumes, ornaments, body decoration, honeymoon, etc are some of the important elements of their traditional bhil folklore involved.

All these elements are an invitation to the members of community to participate in the folkloric life of the society. If one witnesses the marriage rites, rituals and customs in progress, which normally takes place in 6 to 8 days and nights one can see the traditional folklore, social life of an indigenous community of India that had beautiful life and charm once upon a time in the past persisting even today. This charm is in great danger of vanishing now due to the imposition of Hindu culture unjustly and their life style on these simple and traditional communities.

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PARTIAL RESTORATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

From all over the world, needless to count money, food grains and other basic facilities for the tribals have reached generously to the poor of the poor tribals of Jhabua. No doubt, both Central and state Governments too, in their planning and providing have kept generous measures for the vital needs of the Tribals and Adivasis or indigenous peoples. But on the grass root level a strong desire by the non tribals was to totally deprive them educationally, medically and including for the food for survival.

The supply of items for the mid day meal has been 60% to 70% has been evacuated by the teachers in the villages the students say for whom it is supposed to come.

This year thanks to the Chief Minister of the Madhya Pradesh state Mr. Shivraj singh Chauhan that the responsibility has been entrusted to the tribals for the availing of the rations, preparation and serving mid day meal to the children. But the tribals, who are systematically being corrupted, will rise now to the honest and transparent state....?

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TRIBAL MIGRATION AND DEPRIVATION

The region of Bhagoria Bhils comprising of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Ratlam, Dhar, Pachmahal, and other civil districts of India are faced with severe famine due to only 20% or less annual rain fall. Hence it is facing non availability of drinking water, food, and fodder for human beings and animals for minimum survival. The officials are happy if there are continual famines, for they get sufficient funds from India and abroad to evacuate for them with no accountability to any one. Hence if you ask the records of the past 30 years under the right to information’s, they will not be available for social and public accountability, which is must for the donors. The relief funds those come from the national and international agencies for the tribals, marginalised and the most needy, is well managed l by the corrupt administers, officials and NGOs who have accumulated a large funds for themselves for the generations to come.

In the district of Jhabua villages after villages inhabited by the Bhils and other tribals or tribes have been deserted almost 75% or more, either by foot or by trains to distant places. Even those places of migration, they are harassed and unseated, allowed to encamp in the nearness of any major towns attributing them as thieves or robbers, but whereas who is actual thieves or robbers..... Some others......

There is an urgent task to be done by the national and international funding agencies, to unearth the records of at least past 30 years as whether their money funded for such purposes in India or in the tribals districts of the country, have reached at all, before send the next fund..... Most of these at least 98% of the NOGs are non tribals and they only come to tribal areas to evacuate their easily manageable funds and not for the love of the tribals / Adivasis / indigenous or the marginalised ones.

Is there any panacea for this....? Who shall stand for the basic human rights of the deprived ones and denied like this.....? Will the tribals be deprived forever.... for their overall human and cultural rights....?

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A BIRTH SONG OF BHILS

The Bhils have a few thousand folk songs or folk poetry to solemise their social and cultural events in day today life. Here is a folksong describing the birth event.

I shall order a swing for my child from Piyor (in-law's place)
O my husband, too young to be one!
I shall have a pond dug before your eyes,
For me to bathe in !
I shall fill the house with sumptuous beds,
And sleep peacefully on such sumptuous beds.
I shall order a swing for my child from piyor.

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Trust in God

For the last 0ver 20 centuries the Bhils have been tortured severely by the ethnic groups Invading their land and society socially, culturally and politically. In each case the poor tribals in this case the Bhils had to loose in the hand of their invaders. The tribal Bhils developed their trust in God is such a difficult and invincible times.

The proverb that gave the Bhils moral and religious strength is like this:

Bhagwan no jor, lakh ne par.
The strength of God (Supreme) can give us success in one thousand works.

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