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Dr. Bhupinder Singh IAS [Retd.] has devoted himself to social justice in the cause of tribals and marginalised sections of India, passionately evolving concepts and driving policies etc. during his entire career in the Indian Administrative Service and post-retirement, a total of nearly six decades. He brought energy, empathy, passion and scholarship to what he regarded not a job but life’s dedicated goal. He is widely recognised as a thought leader and authored three committees’ seminal reports. The first one on Jharkhand led to the formation of the new state. The Bodo Councils were born out of the report on Plains tribes of Assam. The tribal-customized Panchayat system in Scheduled Areas of nine States burgeoned based on the recommendations in the third report for the proposed law on extension of the provisions of the Constitution [73rd amendment] Act, 1992 to Scheduled Areas. Federal India was historically reconfigured. As a member of the second Commission on Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes set up by the Government of India under Article 339(1), he played a key role in its activities and particularly in writing in major part its 2004 report. Post-retirement, he continues to tirelessly champion the cause in many ways. The Author felt the need to turn to fiction since any number of Central and State reports have produced disproportionately lower outcomes. He hopes that a work of sociological-fiction might spread interest among members of civil society, and create waves among millions of tribal friends all over the country through the messages of goddess Sene delivered, hopefully, in their own languages, to demand and secure their rights and entitlements democratically.
I had the good fortune of having had the opportunity of looking after and serving the tribal people of the country for more than half a century during active career in the Indian Administrative Service as well as during post-retirement years. During all these years I travelled extensively in tribal areas, had intensive discussions with members of tribal communities, political masters as well as colleagues, academicians, activists etc. I particularly value the visits in the interior areas where I had close contacts and personal discussions with members of the most backward and vulnerable groups. Based on all these, I was enabled to write reports which contributed to the evolution of concepts, policies, strategies etc. towards tribal affairs generally and tribal development particularly.Post-retirement, inter alia, I drafted reports of three important committees. As a member of the Committee on Jharkhand Matters [1990], as chairman of the Three-Members Expert Committee on the Plains Tribes of Assam [1992] as an expert Member of the Committee of MPs and Experts for Law on Extension to Scheduled Areas of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment [also known as Bhuria Committee]. The three reports paved the way for a more satisfying configuration and administration of parts of federal India through legislative and administrative measures. Notably, the seeds of the last report sprouted into the well-known 1996 Provisions of Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, in short called PESA.The call of the Indian Constitution obliges justice to be delivered to the adivasis in the form of rights and entitlements it bestows on them. Towards that end, all the constituent players need to work in tandem. I present this book in a popular format, a tale of fiction grounded in reality. I hope that it will carry the message of effortless comprehension followed by dedicated action more than the reports I compiled earlier.This book narrates the story of a tribal girl, Sene, living in a village located in the remote Central Indian forested hills. She hails from a chief's clan belonging to a tribe called Munda. Her life is full of traumas, much more than the life of any other tribal woman. I have drawn upon some live characters and even adopted their real names. For example Alka Madhok ji, a social activist, who in real life helped, at my request, rescue in Delhi a tribal girls from the clutches of traffickers figures exactly as social activist in the concerned chapter. Second, I borrowed a couple of incidents from the early life of Savitri Bodra, my adopted tribal daughter staying with us for the last more than two decades. My study of sociology and field experience in development administration enabled me to weave the real with fiction.It is said that fact is stranger than fiction. It may be true to an extent. But it is difficult to accept it as an axiomatic truth. Sometimes, the fictional trumps the factual. I have mentioned that this book is a blend of sociology and fiction. Let me add: Sociology without ground realities is like dried fish and fiction without theoretical grounding is a flight of chimerical wish.Dr Bhupinder Singh IAS (Rtd)
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