Madhya Pradesh: Why did 40 Dalit families have to abandon Hinduism and adopt Buddhism?

Due to caste discrimination, 40 families of Jatav community adopted Buddhism in village Bahgawan of Karaira tehsil of Shivpuri district.

Published on: 05 Feb 2024

Bhopal. In Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, 40 Dalit families collectively abandoned Hinduism and took initiation into Buddhism. According to the information, Dalit families, hurt by the caste discrimination in the Bhagwat Katha store in the village, decided to adopt Buddhism, after which everyone collectively repeated the 22 vows of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar and initiated Buddhism. Took it.

What is the whole matter?

Actually, Bhandara was organized at the conclusion of Bhagwat Katha in village Bahgwan of Karaira tehsil of the district. People of Jatav (Dalit) community were stopped from serving pattal in Bhandara, due to which 40 families of Jatav community abandoned Hindu religion and adopted Buddhism. However, the village sarpanch says that all the allegations are baseless, the villagers have been coaxed into accepting Buddhism.

In village Bahgwan, the villagers had organized Bhagwat Katha by donating donations. Bhandara was organized at the conclusion of the story. Due to caste discrimination in Bhandara, Jatav community abandoned Hindu religion and adopted Buddhism.

While talking to ‘The Mooknayak’, Mahendra Baudh, a resident of village Bahgawan, said that work was distributed to all the communities in the village’s Bhandara, in the same sequence, the Jatav community was assigned the task of serving the plates and picking up the false plates, but later on The person said that if people of Jatav community serve pattal, then pattal will become untouchable. In such a situation, they should be made to do only the work of picking up the Juthi leaves and in the end the villagers said that if you have to pick up the Juthi leaves then do it, otherwise go to your home after having food. After this, all the people of Jatav community, hurt by caste discriminatory behavior, took initiation into Buddhism.

Here, village Sarpanch Gajendra Rawat says, “The allegations are completely baseless. According to him, the people of Jatav community had distributed banana prasad with their own hands a day earlier, which the entire village took and ate. Buddhist monks in the village They had come, they have seduced the people of the society and got them converted to religion. In the entire village, no work of any kind was distributed to any particular community, everyone did all the work together.”

While talking to The Mooknayak, Karaira SDM Ajay Sharma said, information about religious conversion by people belonging to Scheduled Caste category was received in village Bahgwan. We had sent the Tehsildar to investigate. But no complaint of caste discrimination was given by the villagers. Jatav families did not even take initiation into Buddhism in written form. The people of the village have told that due to lack of coordination in the Bhandara, the families of Jatav community took back the donation amount and organized a separate Bhandara and took initiation into Buddhism orally.