KOTTHI OF MALHING KATTARA

Malhing Kattara is an indigenous Bhil, social worker, social analyst and social activist from the Bhil dominated District of Jhabua, MP, India. There are over 70 social work organisations claiming to serve the Bhils under the pretension of social work with negligible results over decades or one century. More than 90% of these bogus NGOs who are often unchecked, in the districts of Jhabua - Alirajpur have made a prosperous business out of these the social works. Most of them are non tribals, do not know their language and culture, nor they have love for the Bhils due to their prejudices towards the tribal way of life, language, culture, geographical setting, facilities in this geographical region of the Bhils but love to remain willingly and joyfully under the difficult conditions, due to the easily availability for tribal funds, in the name of tribal development, since there can help themselves because there is no transparency, local participation, social accountability, right to information’s, etc. Hence they are thriving on the tribal developmental funds achieving nothing over the years and decades. Malhing is uniquely exceptional among them developing some of the indigenous approaches to the tribal development of the Bhils under the influence of adivasikaran of Mahipal Bhuriya.

Kotthi is an earthen vessel indigenously made by moulding mud for storing grain and other agricultural products by the Bhils other tribes of western India. Malhing Kattara takes very appropriately the symbol of Kotthi for the sustainable development and under the basic concepts of Adivasikaran of M. Bhuriya. He develops some of the concepts of development around it in the context of self-help, indigenous forms of organic fertilizers, irrigation, social justice, utilisation of local artifacts, language, music, orchestra, food-items, clothes, fruits, accumulation of agricultural products for the difficult time, local alcohol and its use in modest way, which is healthier and in purer form than the western brands or brought from outside of tribal habitats, logical reasoning, and so on. Malhing Kattara is one of the social workers in the district of Jhabua applying adivasikaran for the sustainable development and finding encouraging results.

Malhing Kattara is the most successful social worker. Yjis enthusiastic young man is not only social worker, social activist, social analyst, but a singer, Bhil mandal player, dancer, folklorist, singer, folk-writer, poet, writer, editor of Samanvaya Magazine and so.

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