BAMCEF pays tribute to Marang Gomke Adarniya Jaipal Singh Munda on his 42nd Death Anniversary.

BAMCEF pays tribute to Marang Gomke Adarniya Jaipal Singh Munda on his 42^nd Death Anniversary.

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Our tribute to the greatest Mulnivasi Tribal Mahapurush : Marang Gomke

Adarniya Jaipal Singh Munda on his 42nd Death Anniversary

Jaipal Singh Munda

Jaipal Singh Munda (January 3, 1903 – March 20, 1970) was a Munda tribal man, who

captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in

Amsterdam. He is well known for his sportsmanship and political skills.

Later he emerged as a sole leader of Adivasi cause and creation of a separate home land

for adivasis of central India. As a member of the Constituent Assembly of India he actively

campaigned for the rights of the scheduled tribes.

He formed Adivasi Mahasabha in 1938, himself as its president. After independence the name

of the party was changed to Jharkhand Party to accommodate non-tribal people to achieve long

term goals. He is popularly known as "Marang Gomke" (meaning Great Leader) by the tribals of

Chotanagpur. He was a gifted speaker and represented all the tribals of India at the Constituent

Assembly of India (which was responsible for drafting the constitution of Independent India).

The following is an excerpt from a famous speech made by him, where, while welcoming the

Objectives Resolution, he highlighted the issues facing the Indian tribals.

"As a jungli, as an Adibasi, 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."

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