i need a book on jaypal munda's story On 3/20/15, AYUSH Adivasi Yuva Shakti <[email protected]> wrote: > Share with your connections! > > On Friday, January 3, 2014 at 5:50:18 PM UTC+5:30, AYUSH Adivasi Yuva > Shakti wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> >> >> there is no definition and para meters in constitution to define Scheduled >> >> Tribe.This is the borrowed concept of East India Company and European >> colonization's slavery code imposed on Indigenous people and same adopted >> >> in Constitution as to to. During the Constitution debate Nov.1949, >> Adivasi representative Mr. Jaipal Singh Manda was raised the points before >> >> Hon;ble Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, (Chairman Drafting Committee) Pt. Jawahar >> >> Lal Neharu ( Prime Minister) , and Dr. Rajendra Prasad ( President) >> that.... >> " You are saying to me jangali Adivasi, yes I am proud to be Adivasi, but >> >> why you people are not saying to me Adivasi in Constitution" ? The answer >> >> is still awaited and all intellectuals are silence. >> >> >> >> यावर भारतीय घटना समितीमध्ये आदिवासीचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणारे मा. जयपाल सिंग >> मुंडा म्हणतात की, आदिवासीवर ६हजार वर्षापासून केलेल्या अन्यायाची पुनरावृती >> >> स्वतंत्र भारताच्या घटनेत करण्यात आली. हा भारतीय आधुनिक लोकशाहीतील >> आदिवासीच्या संदर्भातला काळा इतिहास आहे. . डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद भारताचे >> पहिले >> राष्ट्रपती, पं. जवाहरलाल नेहरू भारताचे पहिले पंतप्रधान , आणि डॉ. बाबासाहेब >> >> आंबेडकर भारतीय घटनेचे शिल्पकार यांच्यासमोर, मा. जयपाल सिंग मुंडा, आपल्या >> ''Objective Resolution'' या विषयावरील पहिल्या भाषणात आदिवासीच्या संदर्भाने >> >> मांडतात की… >> ‘’Sir, if there is any group of Indian people, that has been shabbily >> treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, neglected >> for the 6000 years. The history of the Indus Valley civilization a child >> of >> which I am, show quite clearly that it is the new comers most of you here >> >> are intruders as far as I am concerned.’’ >> त्याही पुढे मा. जयपाल सिंग मुंडा यांनी आदिवासींना जंगली म्हणविनाऱ्या घटना >> >> समितीच्या सदस्यांना ठकवून सांगितले की, '' तुम्ही आम्हाला जंगली म्हणता? >> आम्ही जंगली नसून या देशाचे मूळनिवासी आहोत. आताच आपण मला आदिवासी म्हटले. >> होय >> मी आदिवासीच आहे आणि आदिवासी असल्याचा मला स्वाभिमान आहे. पण आपण आम्हास, >> भारतीय घटनेत आदिवासी का म्हणीत नाही ? मा. जयपाल सिंग मुंडा यांच्या या >> कडव्या सवालावर भारतीय घटना समितीच्या सर्व सदस्यानी मौन पाळले होते. या मौन >> >> धारण करणाऱ्यावर मा . जयपाल सिंग मुंडा अतिशय दुःख व्यक्त करतात की, >> आदिवासीने >> नकेलेल्या चुकीला, भारताच्या आधुनिक लोकशाहीमध्ये साकारून आदिवासीच्या वांशिक >> >> गटाचे अस्तित्व समूळ नष्ट करण्याचे षड्यंत्र उभे केले. >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> Jaipal Singh Munda: January, 1903 – March, 1970. A distinguished >> parliamentarian, a sportsman of international repute, an educationist, a >> politician with great vision and courage, a powerful orator with mastery >> over multiple national and foreign languages, Jaipal Singh Munda was a >> multi-faceted personality. >> >> With a typical Munda ear for music, love for dance and theatre, the “man >> extraordinary” was destined to lead the Adivasi movement. A student of St >> >> John’s College, Oxford, Jaipal graduated in 1926 with Honours in >> Economics. >> At Oxford he made a name as an all- rounder, excelling in studies, sports >> >> and in debating. He was an Oxford blue in hockey and a regular columnist >> on >> hockey in the London press. He was the president of the Junior Common Room >> >> at St John’s College, an honour not non-British student managed. >> >> As the president of the Oxford Indian Majlis, Jaipal interacted with >> personalities like C.F. Andrews, Annie Besant and Lala Lajpat Rai. The >> leader of the Swatantra Party, N.G. Ranga, a contemporary of Jaipal in >> Oxford had said of him, “ Even in those days, Jaipal would never tolerate >> >> denigration of Indians by the British, he was unique in many ways”. >> >> In 1927-28 Jaipal was selected as a Indian Civil Service probationer that >> >> required two years of training in Oxford. During this period, he was >> appointed the captain of the first Indian national hockey team in the >> Olympic Hockey Tournament in Amsterdam in 1928, where India won the gold. >> >> He led his team successfully through all the matches. However, he did not >> >> play in the title clash with Holland as he had to return to London for his >> >> ICS final. >> >> Jaipal scored highest marks in ICS viva voce, but was asked to repeat a >> year as he broke the term for his Amsterdam trips. Jaipal felt humiliated >> >> at this, specially after his hockey laurels for which even the viceroy of >> >> India had wired congratulatory messages to him. He resigned from ICS and >> took up a job with Burma Shell as a senior executive, appointed directly >> by >> the chairman of the company. During his posting in Calcutta, he married >> Tara Wienfried Majumdar, the grand-daughter of Woomesh Chandra Banerjee, >> the first and the third president of the Indian National Congress. In >> 1934, >> Jaipal joined as a commerce teacher at the Prince of Wales College at >> Achimota, Gold Coast, Ghana. In 1937, he returned to India as the >> vice-principal and the principal incumbent of the Rajkumar College, >> Raipur. >> In 1938, he left the school and joined as the colonization minister and >> revenue commissioner in the Bikaner princely State and was promoted as >> foreign secretary. Jaipal thought that with his varied experience he could >> >> be more useful to the country through the Congress. His encounter with >> Rajendra Prasad at the Sadaaquat Ashram in Patna, however, did not go >> well. >> The then Governor of Bihar, Sir Maurice Hallet offered to nominate him to >> >> the Bihar Legislative Council but Jaipal declined. Sir Hallet and the >> Chief >> Secretary of Bihar, Robert Russell, then suggested that he return to >> Ranchi >> and take charge of the Adivasi movement that had just started. >> >> In deference to their wishes, Jaipal now decided to go to Ranchi and >> assess the situation for himself. The return to Ranchi was Jaipal’s >> homecoming. >> >> >> Biography is a genre poorly developed in India, but there do exist >> serviceable lives of our major nationalist leaders. Those interested in >> Gandhi and Gokhale can read works on them by B.R. Nanda. Admirers of Patel >> >> can turn to the life of the Sardar by Rajmohan Gandhi. And both admirers >> and detractors of Jawaharlal Nehru can turn, for ammunition, to the >> three-volume biography by Sarvepalli Gopal. >> >> These works have their limitations. For one thing, they all focus on the >> politics, leaving out the personality. Still, these books are solidly >> researched and reliable, and provide a decent enough account of their >> subjects’ political careers. Less fortunate have been Indian politicians >> who worked outside the realm of the Congress. There are no lives, good or >> >> bad, of such figures as the Kashmiri nationalist, Sheikh Abdullah, the >> Sikh >> leader, Master Tara Singh, the communist thinker and administrator, E.M.S. >> >> Namboodiripad, and the Naga freedom-fighter, Angami Zapu Phizo. Yet these >> >> are all figures of extraordinary interests, whose life and work illuminate >> >> many aspects of our modern history. >> >> Among this list of unusual, but poorly remembered, characters is Jaipal >> Singh of Jharkhand. Jaipal was a Munda from Chotanagpur, the forested >> plateau peopled by numerous tribes all more-or-less distinct from caste >> Hindu society. Sent by missionaries to study in Oxford, on his return he >> did not, as his sponsors no doubt hoped, preach the Gospel, but came to >> invent a kind of gospel of his own. This held that the tribals were the >> “original inhabitants” of India — hence the term adibasi or adivasi, which >> >> means precisely that. Jaipal formed an Adivasi Mahasabha in 1938 which >> asked for a separate state of “Jharkhand”, to be carved out of Bihar. To >> the tribals of Chotanagpur, he was Marang Gomke or “Great Leader”. >> >> Jaipal has been in my mind recently, for two reasons. One is that I have >> been reading the debates of the constituent assembly of India. The other >> reason I shall come to presently. >> >> In the constituent assembly, Jaipal Singh came to represent the tribals >> not just of his native plateau, but also of all of India. He was a gifted >> >> speaker, whose interventions both enlivened and entertained the House. (In >> >> this respect, the Church’s loss was unquestionably politics’ gain.) His >> first speech was made on December 19, 1946, when, in welcoming the >> Objectives Resolution, he provided a masterly summation of the adivasi >> case. >> >> “As a jungli, as an Adibasi,” said Jaipal, “I am not expected to >> understand the legal intricacies of the Resolution. But my common sense >> tells me that every one of us should march in that road to freedom and >> fight together. Sir, if there is any group of Indian people that has been >> >> shabbily treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, >> neglected for the last 6,000 years. The history of the Indus Valley >> civilization, a child of which I am, shows quite clearly that it is the >> new >> comers — most of you here are intruders as far as I am concerned — it is >> the new comers who have driven away my people from the Indus Valley to the >> >> jungle fastness...The whole history of my people is one of continuous >> exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India punctuated >> >> by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru at his >> >> word. I take you all at your word that now we are going to start a new >> chapter, a new chapter of independent India where there is equality of >> opportunity, where no one would be neglected.” The Resolution, to Jaipal, >> >> was simply a modern restatement of his own people’s point of view. In >> adivasi society, there was no discrimination by caste and gender. Thus >> “you >> cannot teach democracy to the tribal people; you have to learn democratic >> >> ways from them.” >> >> Eight months later, Jaipal was asked to speak in the debate on the >> national flag. Jawaharlal Nehru had moved a resolution proposing that the >> >> flag be a “horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and dark green in equal >> >> proportions”, with a wheel in navy blue in the centre. On behalf of his >> people, Jaipal said he had “great pleasure in acknowledging this Flag as >> the Flag of our country in future”. >> >> But then he continued, “Sir, most of the members of this House are >> inclined to think that the flag hoisting is the privilege of the Aryan >> civilized. Sir, the Adibasis had been the first to hoist flags and fight >> for their flags. …Each village has its own flag and that flag cannot be >> copied by any other tribe. If any one dared challenge that flag, Sir, I >> can >> assure you that that particular tribe would shed its last drop of blood in >> >> defending the honour of that flag. Hereafter, there will be two Flags, one >> >> Flag which has been here for the past six thousand years, and the other >> will be this National Flag…This National Flag will give a new message to >> the Adibasis of India that their struggle for freedom for the last six >> thousand years is at last over, that they will now be as free as any other >> >> in this country.” >> >> Two years later, in the discussion on the draft Constitution, Jaipal made >> >> a speech that was spirited in all senses of the word. Bowing to pressure >> by >> Gandhians, the prohibition of alcohol had been made a Directive Principle. >> >> This, said the adivasi leader, was an interference “with the religious >> rights of the most ancient people in the country”. For drink was part of >> their festivals, their rituals, indeed their daily life itself. Thus in >> West Bengal “it would be impossible for paddy to be transplanted if the >> Santhal does not get his rice beer. These ill-clad men …have to work >> knee-deep in water throughout the day, in drenching rain and in mud. What >> >> is it in the rice beer that keeps them alive? I wish the medical >> authorities in this country would carry out research in their laboratories >> >> to find out what it is that the rice beer contains, of which the Adibasis >> >> need so much and which keeps them against all manner of diseases.” >> >> The constituent assembly had convened a sub-committee on tribal rights >> headed by the veteran social worker, A.V. Thakkar. Its findings, and the >> words of Jaipal and company, sensitized the House to the tribal >> predicament. As a member from Bihar observed, “the tribal people have been >> >> made a pawn on the chess-board of provincial politics”. There had been >> “exploitation on a mass scale; we must hang down our heads in shame”. The >> >> “we” referred to Hindu society as a whole. It had sinned against adivasis >> >> by either ignoring them or exploiting them. It had done little to bring >> them modern facilities of education and health; it had colonized their >> land >> and forests; and it had brought them under a regime of usury and debt. >> >> In acknowledgement of this, the Constitution mandated that a portion of >> government jobs and seats in legislatures be reserved for adivasis. As >> with >> the untouchables, this was a matter of compensatory justice: a case of >> Hindus making up in the present for the crimes they had committed in the >> past. >> >> Jaipal Singh’s work in bringing the tribal question to centre stage is now >> >> largely forgotten. Reading the constituent assembly debates forcibly >> brought him back to my attention. But there was, as I said, also a second >> >> reason. It is this: that the Indian victory in the recent Asia Cup hockey >> >> tournament made one recall Jaipal’s other side. For before he became a >> politician he was a brilliant hockey-player, an Oxford Blue and the >> captain >> of the first Indian side to win an Olympic gold medal, in Amsterdam in >> 1928. The Marang Gomke was not just a great leader, but also the precursor >> >> to such outstanding adivasi hockey players as Michael Kindo, Dung Dung, >> and >> Ignace and Dilip Bishwanath Tirkey >> <https://www.facebook.com/bishwanath.tirkey> >> ref : http://www.tribalzone.net/people/jaipalsingh.htm >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> > > -- > Interested Candidates for Tribal Entrepreneusrhip Training Program submit > form at :www.event.adiyuva.in (share with your friends) > > Learn More about AYUSH online at : http://www.adiyuva.in/2013/10/ayush.html > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "AYUSH | adivasi yuva shakti" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adiyuva. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adiyuva/25c8783f-b894-4626-851a-6ecdfa11b97d%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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