TRIBAL BHILS' YEARNING FOR EDUCATION

As a whole the Bhils are royal race of the past who controlled or ruled once upon a time a vast region of the Central, Northern and western part of the country. Historically all the castes and creed of peoples such as Aryans, Rajputs, Moguls, Marathas, British people and the rest, who encountered the Bhils, feared them for one or the other reasons. One such reason was a political one that the Bhils who are in such a great force numerically, may not rise against them as a political threat especially to demand for a separate Bhil state (Bhilanchal) within the Indian federation. For this hidden reason, the peoples of vested interests deprived the Bhils of their basic educational human rights, for the last many decades, which was their fundamental right as well as their most basic need of the time.. They are still deprived of quality education till today and more systematically and secretly than ever, fearing that they may rise and revive their political, cultural and social heritage and demand unitedly their other basic human rights especially a home for the Bhils ( Bhilanchal). And, when they are not educated it is easy to manipulate and misguide them. And that is what being done by the politicians, administration and NGOs repeatedly.

The present poem was composed by Mahipal Bhuriya the Bhil(tribal) poet in 1998, to bring educational, economic and other types of awareness among the Bhils, so that they can wake up, rise and demand their human rights.

In this context a boy lover, appeals to his girls friend to go to school for education. Since their Bhil community is deprived of it, hence easily cheated by traders and other castes of people.

DARLING !

Darling,
Our region is uneducated
Come, let's go to school,
Darling, all traders are educated ones
All the castes are literate.

Darling listen to me
If you study,
Later you will be happy.

Darling
Later we shall make romance
Dance on the ryhme of drums
On the beats of small drums too
And dance well
To the hearts satisfaction.

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SONG OF AWARENESS

Humble Prayer of a Bhil

The Bhils are very badly deprived and exploited by all, with no exception anywhere in the country. The 'Song of New Awareness' ( Chetna-Geet), originally composed in Bhili has been translated in many languages including German.This is the prayer of a humble and helpless Bhil against all the social, cultural, political forces in the country, for a new awareness to Bhagwan his Supreme deity. The Bhils are from pre historic times were rulling race, from whom the other invaders deprived them of their states, jal(water), jungle(forests) and jameen(land). They fought but no use, since they were defeated each time all through the centuries. It is a famous poem of Mahipal Bhuriya composed in 1977 and very much appreciated by Hindi media people. Dr. Nemichand Jain and other writers often quoted this piece of Bhili literature in their writings.

O Bhagwan!
There are lots of difficulties in my country
You make me alert
Against these here,.
We are simple and naive people
Hence cheated in this land
Do not avoid us
Hence make hast to help us.

Bring development in our land
And,
Show us the way
To progress in our land.

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ADIVASIKARAN

Best Way for the Protection of Tribal / Adivasi Human Rights

Some thirty years back various ethnic groups of India were seen making social and cultural revival of their societies at various levels in India. At first sight, I was very delighted to note that these cohesive efforts, being made in the country, will solidify all the citizen of India in one national mainstream of life. I was eagerly waiting to see ultimately the positive results of these cohesive efforts. But after two decades I began to feel very uneasy and insecure, as a member of an indigenous Indian ethnic group namely Bhils that my society had no respectful place in the main stream society since it was a caste ridden. And, if I allow myself and my people, the Bhils, to be guided in this context by the process of sanskritisation, at the end I shall be either Dalit, Shudra or Chandal and assimilated forever with no return. My land and other resources too shall be vanished by the higher castes and richer people, as it is already happening now and except media no one is to support the tribals or the indigenous peoples of the country. I also felt, no traces of my history, culture, folklore and society will be left over. They all shall be concealed or wiped out in near future. I shall totally lose my Adivasitva, speaking a language or languages totally strange to me.

My origin as a tribal will be lost forever. I shall be deceived since there shall no relationship with the upper castes of roti (bread) and beti (daughter)....! This shall be the tragic future of the nearly 80% of the population in the country. On the top, 8% people in the country shall not lose anything, their origin, name, identity and resources, but only gain at the cost of overall loss of 80%, possibly chandal, or dalit or shudra forever. Slavery, neo imperialism of powerful castes whose bondages no one shall be able to break. Who shall be the redeemer or the Messiah then of the 80% of these cultural and social slaves.....?

Many of my friends from Adivasi India, had similar problems for respectful survival but there was no satisfactory solution either thought by the indigenous peoples themselves, or provided by the social scientists of the country. But what then..? If all the educated tribals or the indigenous peoples are absorbed like in the national mainstream of India like this, as it is happening now, who shall give lead and be the voice of the illiterate and the ignorant ethnic groups of Adi-Vasi India.......? I did not cease to search for satisfactory solutions. I thought, once we were invaded and enslaved but now, we must fight by fair cultural means and should defend ourselves, otherwise we shall be assimilated in the lowest strata of the Indian society once again and possibly forever.

Several ideas emerged in our discussions. Lastly I thought that, while remaining rooted to our origin and culture, should bring in one solidarity, among all indigenous communities of India, innovate their our own cultures to suite the need of time, thus integrate all in the national mainstream of Indian society as dignified peoples of the country, maintaining our own original image. And this process I call Adivasikaran.

My friends and well wishes have liked the concept of ADIVASIKARAN as a means for respectful survival of indigenous peoples at present, we are sharing the idea of Adivasikaran with our friends and those engaged in protecting the human rights of Adivasi India whose culture was once upon a time the dominant factor and prime heritage of India.

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BHIDHA.: THE PUREST FORMS OF BHIL COURTS

Traditionally the tribals and other indigenous communities of India settled their village and community disputes by their own legal institutions based on their customary laws, such as in the case of Bhils it is called Bhidha. A Bidha is a form of Bhil Panchayat, folk court in which the Bhils settle their disputes, through referendum, transparency, instantly, cheaply, justly and the best way as compared to to the expensive, manipuative, corrupt, delayed, non transparent, and defactive system of today.

The present system of court, police, lawyers etc have made the tribal communities of India very poor. Their 60% of the hard earned money is invested by the pesent legal system for fighting justice which is beyond their means making them almost leading into huge debts, What is the use of such system in which non the tribals or indigenous peoples are benefiting but the non tribals. But the tribal way of maintaining law and order, protecting their human rights ,cultural rights, indigenous rights, in the case of the Bhils through Bidhas should be restored. The non tribals have introduced the court and other systems for the breaching of tribal rights and exploiting the tribals enormously. This has way of imposing 'imported' legal system is not of the tribals, which has weakened tribal communities of India since the tribal customs and cultural ways of life are not in keeping with the legal system which is introduced falsely, consequently they are exploited and looted through the present legal systems.

In the tribal system justice is immediate, cheap and transparent. The Bhil Bhidhas and Bhil Panchayats should be restored for the protection of their human, cultural and legal rights immediate effects...

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YOUR OLD MANTILLA

(Mahipal Bhuriya is one of the most prominent tribal poet of India writing since over thirty years on the tribals oppression, exploitation, poverty, development and breaches of their human rights. 'Your Mantilla' is one of his famous poem appeared in many journals and magazines of Hindi.)
The poem composed originally in Hindi, about Bhil situation, expresses boldly how the tribal girls are physically, morally and emtionally exploited by non tribals.

Your Old Mantilla

On your
Old mantilla are engraved
Sad stories of your past
That is why
Do not change
Do not lose never cry
And by mistake
Never give to any one

Becuase
This is the only
Sign of your innocence
In life
Even though by hunger and change
You may be destroyed
And from this simple life
You may also depart

By cold and heat
Rain and spring
Continue wearing it
Throughout your life
Bearing the inhuman treatment
You may be destroyed
But
In the dark nights
In the days of hunger and starvation
By living among culprits
Remain always
Innocent only
And let that be
Turned into rags
Even then with more honour
In this situation
Let it cover your
All the months of the year
Because
This is the proof
That
What this society
Has given you
And
In you
You have found
Deceit, exploitation, descrimination, injustice and
dishonour
And
You never got full daily wages
And
For your human rights protection
Who has fought with courage
And sacrificed his own life ?
And that is why
To tell the world these stories
Couragously
Continue wearing this
Day and night.

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PANCHAYATS IN MADHYA PRADESH ARE UTTER FAILURE

The indigenous communities of India were by nature just and honest throughout the country. This is because they lived a God fearing religious life on which their local politics, social and cultural life, village and the state administration of their own was based deriving total inspiration directly from God, and not from any human being's teachings and his philosophy. They even did not deprive away the Roji Roti (daily bread) of other ethnic communities by false means such as occupying their territories and controlling their resources under any pretex. On the contrary untill today, they are the only ones honestly earning their bread in the country, not encroaching on any other ethnic communities geographical, social, cultural and relgious rights. Where do we find such honest souls and uncanonised saints in the urban setting of the country....?

It is for this reason the Panchayats of the indigenous peoples in the country like those of the tribals or Adivasis, and also the Panchayats of the indignous communities of the rural India were the relfection of God and hence Mahatma Gandhi called these Panchayats as Pach Parmeshwar. But these assocations were damaged and replaced by the newly developed corrupt system. Mama Baleshwar Dayal of Bamnia, Jhabua District (MP) had least trust in newly formed Panchayati Raj for delivering benefits to the indigenous peoples. He often told the Bhil of Jhabua that the Panchayati Raj formate in totality should go to Delhi from you the Bhils then only it will develop a true system for the local self-governence. Now his prophetic words have come to be trure.

A prominent Hindi daily of the country called 'Nai Duniya' (March 15, Indore , 2009)published an important headline in this context on it's front page saying 'Aksham Panchayati Raj" meaning useless or least effective local self governence due to the wide spread corruption, lack of its true formation, not tested in time like the reliability of the Bhil Panchayats through out India, and then the reputed Hindi daily gives a host of reasons of its failure supported by the Madhya Pradesh Governemnt's report concering it and suggesting ways and means to improve.

This clearly indictes that the values, morality, social and cultural norms are historically found among the indigenous peoples who were and are far better, even prior to the interference by the outsiders. It is the high time that the those who interfered should learn commonly practised and inherited morality from the indigenous peoples and also how to be honest, transparent, just and upright in public dealings and most of all in the public administrations.


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TRIBAL COURTS DAMAGED, JUSTICE DELAYED AND DENIED

Once upon a time, not before, only 30 years back, each of the indigenous communities of the Tribal India or Adivasi India had beautiful, transparent, quick and communitarian style granting mathematical justice, at a very cheap cost at home in the villages itself. No outisde agencies were involed especially the huge corruption, expenses, beyod tribals family income and the type of system accommodable and unacceptable with various forms of manipulations. It was based on the Divine will holy and sublime values traditionally. There was no need of any change except for the benefits of the the outsiders.The outsiders made cultural encroachments in the inner life of the tribals of Adivais and made irretievable damages making their life unhappy, difficult especially in the legal system and to their other areas of human and cultural rights. The conventional or the cutomary laws were very good, those governed their lives were based on good and sublime values and not as the corrupted agencies such as police, lawyers, dalals and the courts are dealing today. Through these agencies the tribals are totally subjugated and surrenderd to injustice, further deprivation , oppressions and exploitation with no human right consideration of legal and traditional systemof maintenance of beautiful and just system of their own.

Only contrary, the outsiders, fabricated loosely some sort of non-practical system called Gram Panchayats, not fitting in the indigenous communities social and cultural system, not based on each ethnic communities cultural perception, values.. A damage whose reparation cannot be done that has harmed indigenous peoples happiness, unity, village solidarity and the rest.

The traditional indigenous systems must be revived for the imparting just and pure justice, maintenance of indigenous law and order without any further delay.Relaying on the newly introduced corrupted practices will make further flow of money of the indigenous communities to the non tribals.


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