CHIEF MINISTER SHIVRAJSINGH CHAUHAN

An Able Servant of Madhya Pradesh

In the past years as the Chief Minister of the state of M.P., Mr. Shivrajsingh Chuahan has not projected himself as a manager or administrator of the state but a humble servant(sevak) of people in the state un like his former counterpart Mr. Digvijay Singh of the opposition party. Both were dedicated to the state of Madhya Pradesh undoubtedly. But, Mr. S. Chauhan time and again projected an image of a Sevak of the poor in the state, committed to the development of the state and much more to the honesty and total humility. This helped him to get established among the masses. Thus, inspite of attacks from the opposition, over some crucial issues in the matter of administration from his party members and others, he excelled as a person wanted by the people in M.P. This reminds us today of Mama Baleshwar Dayal a humble Sevak of the Bhils in total Bhilanchal as a selfless leader in the state. If Mr. Shivrajsingh Chauhan follows meticulously in walking on the footsteps of Mama Baleshwar Dayal in future in serving the people, the opposition however able and strongly united, they are shall not be able to take away the helm of the state from Mr. S Chauhan.

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BHIL BHAGORIA HAAT JHABUA

It's National and International Touristic Importance

For the cultural projection of the tribal cultural heritage of India particularly the Bhil Bhagoria Haat of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh has a unique cultural importance in India. But one can sadly observe that even though Bhil Bhagoria is given sufficient importance by the media and folklorists of the country, the Department of Tourism of Government of India has neglected it's impotence from several perspectives. Surprisingly, the Government of Madhya Pradesh, under the table leadership of Mr. Shivrajsingh Chauhan did attempt to increase its touristic importance in the state in the year 2008. One must accept also that Mr. Manoj Srivastava IAS, then PRO of the state Government of Madhya Pradesh did a commendable job in the last moment, but it was not enough for the much needed promotion of Cultural and human rights of the Bhil tribe as well. Promoting it in scheduled time, will further enhances not only the touristic value of Bhil Bhagoria, but the social and cultural values of the tribe will also be strengthened sufficiently which are being weakened these days due to social pressures. Tribal cultural inhibitions which are induced phenomenon’s by the vested interest peoples, will necessarily diminish and a confidence to assert themselves as the dignified and respectable tribal citizens of the country will positively grow if the festival is given due importance. This will pave path for their social, cultural and Psychological development as the tribal’s valuable peoples of the country. As such the Government of India and other state governments, have done very minimum for much needed promotion of tribals cultures in the country, leave aside he today's 8% Scheduled Tribes' populations, which was once upon a time part of 80% indigenous peoples, who once dominated the demographic scene throughout the country. It is sheer negligence of human and cultural rights of the indigenous peoples in the country particularly of Bhil Bhagoria Haat of Jhabua and the surrounding regions.

Tribals Today, in this case the Bhils have sacred and constitutional right to preserve, promote and innovate their age old cultural heritage such as Bhili their dear language, folksongs, folkdances, tribal costumes and other elements of their folklore. If the Government of India, together with the state governments of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra in which the Bhilanchal the land of the Bhil Bhagoria falls, make sufficient and honest efforts to promote Bhil Bhagoria Haat of of Jhabua region, together with their off-shoots or sub-groups for instance Bhilalas, Rathias, Barelas, Vasavas, Patelias, Gamits, Malvis, Palwadis, Vagodis, etc, shall communicate to the tribals positive message due to the vanishing and threatened elements of their folklore and culture. This way the Department of Tourism of Government of India and the four states in the Bhilanchal, o shall make a significantly supportive contribution. We also see in BBC advertisement in the context of incredible India, for the promotion of tourism in the country, the tribal cultures and folklore is being neglected. It is an unfair gesture to the indigenous peoples of India who have rich folklore in the country the fact cultural anthropologists and folklorists also accept. As one tribal leader once remarked that how long the non tribals shall make us keep dancing for their entertainment without integrating us and our cultures in respectable and dignified way in the country. Let us hope that this year in 2009, at the time of Bhil Bhagoria Haat of Jhabua; the departments concerned will promote tourism l without being unfair and discriminatory.

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INDIGENOUS VISION ON ADIVASI

Our attempt to summarize Adivasi karan, its logistics also its folk philosophy is based scientifically and fundamentally on these main social, cultural, economic, political, educational, religious, psychological, aesthetics, personal and futuristic concerns of the tribals, Adivasis indigenous peoples, Gypsies all other sub-alter societies. If we go deeper we can define our concerns along these points

1. A search for genuinely original and ideal tribal identity which is socially sustainable and culturally for them to survive in the course of time which is being disillusioned today.

2. Retaining of their age old historical and ancestral heritage.

3. Preservation and promotion of their enthnic, physical and geographical identity.

4. Political restoration in some forms of their glorious past in the light of
5th and 6th and other schedule of the constitution of India.

5. Revival of Adivasitva (Tribalness) to protect them from being enforced to dalitisation, shudrakaran and unhealthy assimilation.

6. Help them realize to lead human life as dignified citizens of the country.

7. Providing a strong base against the social and cultural onslaught or invasion made.

8. To prevent further erosion of tribal funds, talents and manipulations in various forms.

9. To protect and promote tribal human and civil rights.

10. To increase quality of life and leadership which will sustain the tribals of india through their own human and rightful natural resources.

11. To improve vehemently health, hygiene and life expectancy thus reducing physical degeneration.

12. To restore and a waken human and tribal adivasi dignity, tribal empowerment, initiatives and a sense of deeper security in historical perspectives.


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BHIL BHAGORIA

INTERNATIONALLY RENOUNED TRIBAL FESTIVAL OF LOVE, ROMANCE AND ELOPEMENT

One has often heard and seen the scenes of love, romance and even elopement among the youth of the modern societies of western world. But what the Bhils the largest and the former ruling tribe of ancient India has been doing until today, is not only fashionable for the youth of today, but socially and culturally a more progressive thought and behaviour. Than even as compared to the youth of America and Europe with no exaggeration. A weeklong festival of love, romance and elopement begins in the ancient Bhil Land around the ancient city of Bhagor in the present district of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh. Bhagor the ancient city of Bhagor region of the Bhils, had been the city of Bhagor Bhil, a name very common even today among the Bhils of Western India. The Bhils of Western India, inhabiting from the prehistoric times around the ancient city of Bhagor are called Bhagoria Bhils. One of the anciet folk saying among the Bhils of Bhagoria says, ' Bhagi bhagor vahi Ratalam ane Indore.' (Only after the dismantling of the city of Bhagor, the present day cities of Ratlam and Indore were inhabited).

A German speaking cultural anthropologist from Vienna, Austria Dr. Hermann Matthias has written a massive volume in German language, on the origin, history, culture and the folklore of the Bhils of Bhagor region called Bhagoria Bhils. In fact the Bhils had a great culture of their own, who after the coming in contact with Aryans, Muslims, Rajputs, Labhhanas, Marathas and others suffered massive regression; memories of the ancient and the past glorious old days of the Bhils are still prevalent in their oral tradition. What the western youth from the modernised societies including India are doing today, in the matters of sex and ethical practices or morality, the Bhils always practised with no feelings of guilt and inhibition. The guilt and inhibition came to the Bhil regions with the sensitisation which adulterated the tribe today.

The Bhagoria festival is actually begins in the region of Bhagor on the last weekly market of the place, prior to the Hindu festival of Holi which the Bhils also celebrate but in their own fashion. So this is a weeklong festival of love and romance not heart being celebrated with so much enthusiasm, glamour, cultural pride, love and romance. Only now a day’s one can see the police and administration has spoiled by unduly interfering in the inner matters of the bhil tribals, a breach in the human right matters of society, their cultural and social values. Jhabua-Alirajpur are the main centres of the great Bhagoria festival. In one day at least in 3 to 5 last weekly markets prior to Holi festival Bhagoria is celebrated in this great ancient festival of Bhagoria in the Bhil Land. In a day some 200 thousand to 500 thousand Bhil youth or more with the elderly people will be drinking and dancing, singing, playing, music, romancing, loving, eloping, and making merry, which is the customary tribal right of the Bhils and it is conventional or unwritten law of the tribal youth select their of their liking and and elope with the clear intention to be future husband and wife. Parents of such partners come together mutually with the members of the clan, lineage, bilaterally and settle the matter amicably. But the administration and police has respected the tribe and their customary laws especially of Bhil folk or conventional marriage and make the matter worse by making cases punishable according to their norms disrespecting the tribal’s.

On this day the police should restrain and respect the tribe. Not disrespect and violate their human, marriage, social and cultural rights granted to them by their own societies. It is a great honour for the tribe to celebrate, sing, make merry in their badly placed social conditions of oppression, exploitation, to rejuvenate their lost psychic energies for recuperation to further face the hardships of life. Will the non tribals respect the folk festivals of Adivasi India in socially and culturally conditioned perspectives in an honourable way....?

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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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CONGRESS CANDIDATE XAVIER MEDA WON FROM JHABUA

Xavier Meda the youth Congress President of the Bhil dominated district of Jhabua, MP, India won with huge majority defeating his many nearest rivals both from Congress and BP parties. Among many Congress expectant candidates and few deserving ones, Xavier Meda too put up his candidacy in opposition to a Congress leader Madam Kalawati Bhuriya the Congress President of the same district. Till the last moment nothing was sure as to whom the party's top leaders would award the seat for the contesting of election. In the last moment the Congress Party High Command favoured Xavier Meda against Kalawati Bhuriya. This was a crucial moment for Lalawati Bhuriya and her uncle who is also a Congress leader and sitting Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) besides being s state minister for agriculture of Government of India. Since it turned out to be an emotional and prestige issue for the Congress leaders and the party workers in the district of Jhabua especially in the Jhabua constituency of the assembly elections, it was feared that the opposition party candidate Mr. Pavesingh Pargi the sitting MLA of the BJP would win. Beisides there was a controversy being spread and was being strongly feared that Xavier being a Catholic from Anthonpur Parish of a Bhil Catholic Diocese of Jhabua, the vested interest people were strongly advocating the voters to choose between Rome Rajor Rama Raj. The local Christians feared that if Xavier failed it was end of their happy and peaceful period. Hence many withdrew from the active participation in support of the Congress candidate fearing that if at all he lost what would happen to the Christians both Catholics, Protestants including the members of Free Churches. Adding to these many rumours and controversies, in the midst of all these Mr. Rahul Gandhi too appeared one fine day to appeal the voters in the MP state assembly constituency of Jhabua.

Many Hindus of good standing, senior lawyers, intellectuals, media persons, youth, sarpanches, government workers, and Hindu voters from the town of Jhabua favoured in Xavier Meda an honest, simple and genuine person who served and works for Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Jains and Adivasis equally. From the Districts of Jhabua - Alirajpur about of five , four Congress candidates have won, but the state assembly of Madhya Pradesh has BJP majority due to the good administration of the former chief minister Mr. Shivraj Chauhan.

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ADIVASIKARAN

Tribalisation & Aboriginalisation



There are various approaches and methods being used by the non Adivasis in India for the Tribal Development, prominent among whom are isolation, assimilation and integration proposed from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and besides few others present day in modern India. All these methods are playing down the total and ideal tribal or indigenous peoples development in the country as you see today, where participation, transparency, accountability, right to information, felt needs, in other words roles of indigenous populations of India(SC, ST & Adivasis) are either denied or absent, leading Adivasis towards more backwardness, degradation, alienation, dalitisation, ultimately a breach of their total human rights in terms of culture, religion, languages, self-rule, participation, equality, justice, indigenous laws, indigenous knowledge, many others and then a possible biological extinction which appears imminent in near future. The non tribal’s are developing and controlling, further accumulation and manipulation of indigenous peoples over all resources in terms of almost everything. Hence the tribal’s are becoming Dalits and over all totally impoverished even in the working areas of reputed NGOs where funding agencies in India and abroad loosing their 90% of their funds spent in the names of SC, ST & OBC, because non tribal’s are depriving them almost of away everything, which was never before. Today as it is apparent, non tribal’s are becoming more powerful and resourceful even in the tribal matters which was never before even in the working of NGO and the tribal’s and tribal’s are becoming holistically poorer and poorer which was not there earlier. In the best method proposed for tribal development that is Integration, basically something wrong. Because unless all in the country of India establish the relationship of Roti (bread7food) and Beti (daughter) from bilateral or both sides this method is a bogus or fake one. Total sansritisation or Brahanisation is imposed one sidedly on these 80% populations of the country.

A total way of social and cultural life, language and literature, folklore and other practices of a small minority, in the name of national integration is being imposed of a small minority. A huge breach of human rights for these 80% folks of the country, in India, uncaring, denying, the social and cultural ways of Adivasis, Dalits and OBC communities in India who are original Adivasis of India or the indigenous peoples. Hence to reverse this process of impoverisation of 80% peoples of the country, and bring in the empowerment in the field of social development we are introducing the method of Adivasikaran for the Adivasis as Professor Sachidananda said in one of the anthropological conference that this is the best method of tribal development in India besides many other scholars are appreciating and accepting this idea. If in this crucial juncture of time the SC, ST & OBC peoples of India do not envisage their own future destiny , they all 80% of them shall be not in less than 30 years or even in less period of time shall be socially, biologically, culturally, geographically will be totally impoverished and vanished. It appropriate time to reflect on what the Constitution maker of India Baba Saheb Ambedkar has said in the context of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes(ST) and today also in terms of Other Backward Communities(OBC) let us preserve our roots, promote ourselves, innovate and integrate in the national mainstream of India as respectful citizens of the country maintaining our identities for the sheer protections of Total Human Rights or else we shall be vanished as you see the processes are taking place in the clandestine way in the country.

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