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Pal-Dadhvav massacre

March 10, 2022
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In news– On 7th March 2022, the Gujarat government marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, calling it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”.

History of Pal-Dadhvav massacre-

  • The Pal-Dadhvav massacre in which nearly 1,000 tribals (Bhils) were killed, took place on March 7, 1922, in the Pal-Chitariya and Dadhvaav villages of Sabarkantha district, then part of Idar state(Gujarat).
  • During the Amalki Ekadashi (just before Holi), villagers had gathered on the banks of river Heir as part of the ‘Eki movement’, led by one Motilal Tejawat.
  • The movement was to protest against the land revenue tax (lagaan) imposed on the peasants by the British and feudal lords.
  • Tejawat, who belonged to Koliyari village in the Mewad region of Rajasthan, had also mobilized Bhils from Kotda Chhavni, Sirohi, and Danta to participate.
  • The Mewad Bhil Corps (MBC), a paramilitary force raised by the British that was on the lookout for Tejawat, heard of this gathering and reached the spot.
  • On a command from Tejawat, nearly 2000 Bhils raised their bows and arrows and shouted in unison- ‘We will not pay the tax’.
  • The MBC commanding officer, HG Sutton, ordered his men to fire upon them. Bullets rained on them that led to a major stapmade and killing of more than thousand people.
  • Gujarat has a near 14 per cent tribal population that resides along its northern-eastern stretch, called the ‘poorvi patti’, bordering the districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
  • The Pal-Dadhvav massacre was brought into focus at the Republic Day parade of 2022.
  • The R Day tableau featured a seven-ft statue of Tejawat, inspired by the statue at the memorial.

About Motilal Tejawat-

  • Born into a merchant (Baniya) family in the adivasi-dominated Koliyari village, Tejawat was employed by a landlord, where he worked for eight years. 
  • During this period he saw closely how the landlords exploited tribals and would threaten to beat them with shoes if they did not pay the tax.
  • Outraged by the atrocities and exploitation of the tribal people, Tejawat quit the job in 1920 and devoted himself to social work and reform. 
  • Motilal Tejawat’s immediate source of inspiration was the Bijolia movement.
  • Bijolia movement was a peasant movement in the Bijolia jagir of the former Mewar state (in present-day Rajasthan in India) against excessive land revenue exactions. 
  • The movement continued till 1941 after a bitter struggle lasting about half a century, gained national attention and resisted state oppression.
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Source: The Indian Express
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