Adivasi Freedom Fighters are still recorded as "Dacoits"
We are free now. British rule is nowhere. But the scars of the old wounds can be seen even today. The day was 16 March 1943. One battalion of British soldiers invaded a vally near Akrani Fort in the Satpuda Ranges. The soldiers attacked on several adivasi men and women who were taking shelter. Many of them killed and many of them put into the jail, calling them "dacoits".
It happened so that, adivasi saint Aap Gulam Maharaj of Morwad (Now Ranjanpur) Tal. Taloda Dist. Dhule (Now Nandurbar) always taught his disciples not to take alchohol or wine or any other type of Drugs. So people started following his teachings. After the death of Gulam Maharaj his younger brother Ramdas Maharaj took charge of the non alchohol movement. Now this annoyed the wine-shopkeepers. The conflict of alchoholists and non- alchoholist arouse.
The British Govt. supported the wine shop keepers because they were selling their wine. The Govt. charged Ramdas Maharaj as rebel against the British Rule. So they exilled Ramdas Maharaj from Maharashtra. Ramdas Maharaj was wandering on the border of Madhya Pradesh along on the banks of Narmada River with his honest disciples including several old men and women.
The President of District Congress Commitee, Shri. Shankar Vinayak Thakar send letter to Ramdas Maharaj to break the rule of his exile. So he came to the valley with his loyal disciples near the Akrani Fort to take the shelter. But armed soldiers / police killed many of them mercilessly. After this brutal massacre, the dead bodies of the men and women were brought to Taloda Police Station in a bullockcart. The bodies were arranged in the manner we arrange the firewood in a cart. Ex-MLA Mr. Janardan Poharya Valvi was in the sixth standard is the eye witness of this scene. He knows the exact place where this massacre happened.
After this, Ramdas Maharaj was kept in his own house and others were kept in jail. Later on Shri. Shankar Vinayak Thakar made them free. The innocent Adivasi people who were killed in the massacre and who were kept in jail all are recorded as dacoits in the records of police.
So it is neccessary to give that apt respect to the martyrs. I myself salute them.
It happened so that, adivasi saint Aap Gulam Maharaj of Morwad (Now Ranjanpur) Tal. Taloda Dist. Dhule (Now Nandurbar) always taught his disciples not to take alchohol or wine or any other type of Drugs. So people started following his teachings. After the death of Gulam Maharaj his younger brother Ramdas Maharaj took charge of the non alchohol movement. Now this annoyed the wine-shopkeepers. The conflict of alchoholists and non- alchoholist arouse.
The British Govt. supported the wine shop keepers because they were selling their wine. The Govt. charged Ramdas Maharaj as rebel against the British Rule. So they exilled Ramdas Maharaj from Maharashtra. Ramdas Maharaj was wandering on the border of Madhya Pradesh along on the banks of Narmada River with his honest disciples including several old men and women.
The President of District Congress Commitee, Shri. Shankar Vinayak Thakar send letter to Ramdas Maharaj to break the rule of his exile. So he came to the valley with his loyal disciples near the Akrani Fort to take the shelter. But armed soldiers / police killed many of them mercilessly. After this brutal massacre, the dead bodies of the men and women were brought to Taloda Police Station in a bullockcart. The bodies were arranged in the manner we arrange the firewood in a cart. Ex-MLA Mr. Janardan Poharya Valvi was in the sixth standard is the eye witness of this scene. He knows the exact place where this massacre happened.
After this, Ramdas Maharaj was kept in his own house and others were kept in jail. Later on Shri. Shankar Vinayak Thakar made them free. The innocent Adivasi people who were killed in the massacre and who were kept in jail all are recorded as dacoits in the records of police.
So it is neccessary to give that apt respect to the martyrs. I myself salute them.
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