BHILI CHETANA GEET

A Unique Bhili-Hindi Compilation of Poetry from Jhabua

The Bhil indigenous and tribal people of India are oppressed and exploited in all possible ways since prehistoric times. Eklavya and many such historical characters in Ramayana, Mahabharata, and other period of history are gleaming examples of the dark period of Bhil history. Later the mediaeval and British history is also has no less description of oppression of the Bhil tribe. The same situation persists even in the present time and not many people are there to speak in Bhil's favour.
Bhili Chetana Geet, is the voice of such voiceless Bhils which brings out in the latest and new edition of 2009 in over 150 such poems the inner and deeply felt problems of the Bhils suffering within and without. The first abd second editions were brought out by Dr. Nemichand Jain through Hira-Bhaiya Prakashan pf Indore (MP) in 1977 and 1978. The media people both in Hindi and English including All India Radio at Indore and Bhopal highlighted very much the first venture and unique compositions of Mahipal Bhuriya at first instance. In a year's time over 50 reviews had appeared all over India. Now the book's next volume shall appear in January 2009 which is much awaited in the scholarly circle of Hindi literature. The author has many books along this line on which many colleges and universities have written theses or dissertations. Shri Ramshankar Chanchal has written an overall evaluation of the reviews of Bhili Chetana Geet of the last three decades proving the volume to be of unique importance and a rare creation in Bhili and Hindi literatures.

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