Bhili had been the rich and ancient of Bhil kings, princes, tribal chiefs of the past who in the course of time lost their rich and glorious cultural and linguistic heritage when they came in contact with more powerful invaders who in turn reduced them to lowest status today in the country depriving them almost of everything. The ancient tribal communities of India like Gonds, Bhils, Santhals, Jesukurumbas in the South and others had reached once upon a time a certain level of cultural progression as we get their stray, sporadic and a times solid records in prehistory, ancient Sanskrit literatures, history of the medieval age, records of so called royal families, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan of Todd, Muslim and Mogul records, British history and clearly pointing that even how brutally were treated by more powerful invading people in the past and also we can see these accounts in their oral history or oral tradition of the Bhilsand other tribes. In the collective or folk memory of the tribe it goes without saying that they once upon a time were rulers of many princely states or parts of the vast regions which once they occupied and more powerful invading people annexed from them by invading and torturing them . Coat of Arts, siezeliography, numismatic, cultural symbols and other records too depict that the present Bhils had their monopoly over vast regions of North India which is annexed from them systematically regressing them to the annihilative situation. This goes without saying in the case of Gonds, Jesukurumbas, Bhilalas, Mahadev Kolis and few their tribes in india.
When we place Bhili the mother tongue of millions of Bhils uncared and and given no importence for its survival, development, formation of script, promotion of their mother tongue, education, festival, historical and other rights, it goes without saying that it shall meet similar fate as its speakers were dealt badly in the past 20-30 centuries. But if the policy makers are honest it can change it fate of Bhili the mother tongue of the bhils
Around 1828 Rev Thompson of Kherwara in Rajasthan had made a survey of this tribal language of the ancient Bhil tribal community, followed by Linguistic Survey of India conducted by George Grierson, and later a dozens of writers paying keen attention to its grammar but with no support of the Free India's responsible people who in turn divided this great linguistic BHILI speaking zone in their favor. And now Dr. J.C. Sharma is seriously engaged in preparing Bhili Grammars with a team of experts and Bhili writers and respondents from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. In this connection one should know what the background of Bhils and Bhili is.
The Bhils re the Great people of the ancient days from whom the present invading people have annexed their territories in these four states. They are they indigenous or autochthoms of the place . Once upon a time the prehistorians and scholars say that their culture had reached a certain level of development and they did have their kings, rulers, chiefs, religion, language, art, philosophy, law, justice of their owl which the more powerful invading people suppressed and oppressed them over the 20-30 centuries and deprived them of everything and brought them today to a situation to starve and die. Now all over Bhili speaking regions specially n these four states, a sow but steady awakening is coming for the revival of their past glory, culture, language, art, music, region, solidarity, values, food, culture, etc in keeping with the 5th & 6th Schedule of the country. And now in the light of the 8th Schedule they feel that Bhili can be the language listed in the 8th Schedule of the constitution of India. Thanks of the sympathetic attitude of the Central Institute of Indian Languages(CIIL) Mysore, India that they have developed a scientific system to render Bhili which was so far in the oral tradition to give a written form.
