While serving in the Rajasthan State Electricity Board, I was posted in many districts and got a chance to meet the heads of different castes and see the social reform work done by them closely. Here are some examples for your reference
(1) Rajpurohit Samaj: This society has now become quite organized on its own strength and there was a lot of contribution from their religious leader, Sant Khetaram Ji Maharaj. Shri Mohan Singh Ji Rajpurohit was the Dean of Bikaner Animal University. During his tenure, he inspired the young students of his society towards veterinary medicine. Because of this, today many veterinary doctors of Rajpurohit society will be found in the Rajasthan government. I had met him in Jaipur in 1981 at a wedding ceremony. He was wearing the costumes of the caste- kurta, dhoti and safa. They had sofa sets and chairs, but he was not sitting on them and talking with the people of the society, while sitting in the jajam with them. Such was his simplicity and respect for the society.
(2) Mathur Samaj: In the office of one Mathur Sahib, there was a peon of his caste, who used to go to the officer’s house in the evening for official work, then the officer would have been found sitting on the chair. And that peon used to sit on the jajam. Later, the girl of that officer got engaged to the engineer boy of that peon. After the engagement, the same peon would go to the same officer’s house for office work, then Mathur sahib would make the peon sit beside him on the sofa. Say, you are a peon in the office, but you are my Samdhi at home.
(3) Chaudhary Samaj: I am a resident of Pali district. I used to see in my childhood that the people of the Choudhary community used to do agricultural work and mostly wore half dhoti, open button on top and a small safa on the head. In festivals like Holi-Diwali or marriage, they used to wear kurta/ankharakhi. Later, their religious teacher motivated them towards business. And the younger generation started working as servants in the shops.
Let me tell the story of a village. In 1973, I was operating as an assistant engineer in Falna, till then there were all Jain shops in the village market and most of the servants were boys from the Choudhary society. In 1991, when I was again posted as Executive Engineer of Falna, one day I inspected the above village. I saw that the entire market came under the possession of the Choudhary society. When I inquired, I came to know that as the people of the Jain community left the village and went towards Bombay, Pune, Ahmedabad, similarly those shops were given to the servants of Chaudhari Samaj who were honest and loyal. This way, there was an awakening in the society and they became wealthy and today they have the capacity to donate lakhs of rupees for the construction of hostels, dharamshalas etc. of the society.
(4) Jain Samaj: A sethji had two sons in Barmer. Big boy in Congress party and little boy in BJP. In 1980-81, Mrs. Indira Gandhi visited Barmer and there was a program to weigh coins with her on the scales. Seth ji’s eldest son was a pioneer in weighing the scales. Then the government changed. Then after a few months, Shri LK Advani’s program was made to come to Barmer, then on behalf of the BJP workers, a program was going on to weigh him with coins in the scales in a public place. I saw that Sethji’s little boy was the lead worker in that program. One day, Sethji came to me for his electricity problem, so I asked him, how do you reconcile the two sons, one of Congress and the other of BJP ideology, in the house. He told that when there is a Congress government in the state, then the elder boy is sent free from the shop to participate in political activities and similarly when the BJP government is formed, the elder boy sits with me at the shop and the younger one is free from the shop and remains active in the political activities of the BJP. In this way, whether it is Congress government or BJP, their shop runs at the same speed without any hindrance and leaders of both the parties come to the shop to do Ramasama with me.
Jangid society is far from this thinking. The people of our society remain cut off from each other due to political ideology and have a feeling of non-cooperation. Because of this the society cannot be organized. The people of our society are themselves very smart, well versed in technical knowledge, but collectively weak, so political parties do not give tickets for the posts of President and MLA. About 15-20 percent people of the society have become government servants, industrialists, wealthy, good builders. The remaining 80 percent of the members of the society feed themselves and their families by doing daily wages in the villages and in the cities from the ancestral business, as it has been going on for 40-50 years. In this way they are not able to make economic and political progress.
Therefore, I request the leading leaders of the society, industrialists, employees / officers in the job, Bhamashah, educationist to look towards the Rajpurohit, Mathur, Chaudhary and Jain society mentioned above and organize the society like them on every front, bring backward class to forward, only then the development of the society is possible.
-Er. Tarachand
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