THARUS ARE BAAGAD, FOOL & UNCIVILIZED???

THARUS ARE BAAGAD, FOOL & UNCIVILIZED???

I have since my school days been observing that the Tharus of West Champaran have been looked down upon, humiliated & crowned with the title such as "BAAGAD", "JUNGLEE", uncultured & uncivilized. After Independence of India the same tribe living in Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand also) was included in the VIIIth Schedule of Constitution thus enjoying the benefits of Schedule Tribe while their brethren in West Champaran district of Bihar remained unscheduled and fell prey to the extreme exploitation of the outsiders. This community of this district has become major tribe of Bihar after carving out of Jharkhand. After continuous peaceful struggle this tribe became Schedule Tribe in 2003. But damage, done to them for decades, can never be compensated or undone.

Just to serve their own petty interest all the groups( other than the Tharus) who have the common objective to exploit the Tharuhat and simple, peace-loving Tharus, came together and opposed  tooth and nail the inclusion of the Tharus of West Champaran in the list of Schedule Tribe. Due to the cheap politics lives of lakhs of Tharus  became hell. Most of them became homeless, shelterless and landless in their own land which can be seen in the rise of a number of farms which are known as "Estates". Owner of  each farm is called SARKAR  working as parallel government and simple, innocent Tharus are branded as baagad.

Now what does "civilized mean? Does it mean exploitation of the weak by the powerful? Does it mean doing inhuman thing and justify it also in one's favour? Does it give the powerful right to suppress and oppress the weak? This appears to be true at the Micro level as well as Macro level. Non-Tharus settling in the Tharuhat and now owner of big farms call the simple and gentle Tharus as Baagad/Murkh i.e. fool,  just because they are having humanitarian outlook, just because they are having transparent personality, just because  they are peace-loving people. 

Are we really living in an Independent country & civilized society?