Ck janu biography
Adivasi leader CK Janu to publish autobiography, may take up driving for a living
Adivasi leader and land rights campaigner from Wayanad C K Janu recently visited Adivasi hamlets in Attappady in Palakkad district, spoke to elders in the community and met mothers who lost new-born babies.
“I wanted clarity on the infant deaths in Attappady about which I am writing in detail in my upcoming autobiography,” Janu said.
Janu began writing the autobiography after Kerala went into lockdown in the wake of COVID-19. She has completed a major portion of the book titled Adimasanthathiyude Adayalappeduthalukal or Recordings of a Slave’s Ward, which appears to be a new subaltern chapter in Malabar history.
She plans to release the book in March this year.
“An autobiography has been on my wishlist for many years. Lockdown curtailed my movements and hence I got time to write the book,” she said.
Janu’s name is synonymous with the biggest Adivasi land agitation in Kerala.
The struggle began in 2001 after 30 Adivasis starved to death. This forced the Adivasis to take back their lands for farming. Thousands of Adivasis under the banner of Adivasi Dalit Action Council – which later became the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (AGMS) – set up huts in front of the chief minister’s office in Thiruvananthapuram. They dispersed 48 days later after receiving an assurance from the government that it would distribute between one acre and five acres each of cultivable land to the landless poor.
But the government did not keep its word. Two years later, in February of 2003, thousands of Adivasis walked into the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary in Wayanad and set up camps there. They declared self-rule and started cultivating the land. The state responded with force and sent the police to evict them. Government maintained that the clashes killed one Adivasi protester and one policeman. The Adivasis, however, maintain that 16 of their community members wer Indian social activist C. K. Janu (born 1970) is an Indian social activist and politician. She is also the leader of Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement that has been agitating since 2001 for redistribution of land to the landless tribal people in Kerala. The movement has positioned itself under the aegis of the Dalit-Adivasi Action Council. In 2016, she announced a new political party, Janathipathya Rashtriya Sabha, and contested the 2016 Kerala assembly polls in alliance with BJP, as a part of NDA from Sultanbathery unsuccessfully. The JRS left the NDA in 2018. Janu was born in Chekot, near Mananthavady, a tribal village, in Wayanad to poor tribal parents from the Ravula community, called Adiya due to their historical background, one of the several tribal groups in Kerala who used to be indentured laborers. Adiya means slave and are mostly landless agricultural laborers. She did not have any formal education but learned to read and write through a literacy campaign that was conducted in Wayanad. Janu started her career as a domestic servant at a local school teacher's house, at the age of seven, and spent five years there. By the age of 13, she started working as a labourer for a daily wage of Indian Ruppees 2 (3.5 US cents). Later, she learned tailoring and started a small shop, which had to be closed down due to financial constraints. C. K. Janu was influenced by her uncle P. K. Kalan, a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and became a part of the left party. She became an activist through Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union (KSKTU), associated with the Communist Party of India in the 1970s, who led a tribal uprising in Tirunelli forest in Wyanad, and speaking out from personal experience soon became identified as the voice of tribal people. She worked as a campaigner for the Union until 1987. She then embarked on a triba C.K Janu (born 1970) is an Indian social activist. She is also the leader of Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement that has been agitating since 2001 for redistribution of land to the landless tribal people in Kerala. The movement has positioned itself under the aegis of the Dalit-Adivasi Action Council. In 2016, she announced a new political party, Janathipathya Rashtriya Sabha, and contested the 2016 Kerala assembly polls in alliance with BJP, as a part of NDA from Sultanbathery unsuccessfully. The JRS left the NDA in 2018. By Abu Thahir P BJP’s effort to popularize the Hindutva ideology appears to be a herculean task in Kerala, where they have never been in power. Despite Vellapalli Nateshan’s tactics of creating communal disharmony, the presidentship of Kummanam Rajesh and, lastly, Amit Shah’s magic of inducting Sreesanth as its Kerala face, the public sentiment is not in BJP’s favor. Recently, CK Janu, the indomitable leader of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, who took initiatives for redistribution of land among the landless tribal people in Kerala and led the ‘build huts’ struggles in 2001, has confounded friends and foes alike by opting to contest the Assembly elections as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. It’s ironic that her promising journey ends with her candidature in Sultan Batheri, where she would strive to saffronise Kerala. No matter whether she wins or not, she would be seen as one of the politicians trying to encourage Hindutva chauvinism in Kerala. Moreover, BJP is not in a position to confer any great benefit on Janu or the adivasis. CK Janu was born in1970 in Chekkote, a hamlet in Wayanad district, into a family of five children. This highland area on the border of Kerala, Tamil nadu and Karnataka is mainly populated by adivasis. Janu’s parents were agricultural labourers, having a painful history of servitude to the landlords that was similar to that of the Pulayar and Parayar of the plains area. She received no formal education and learned to read and write only at seventeen with the help of literacy mission. Her autobiographical testimony, Mother Forest, is a thought-provoking narrative of her growing up years. BJP’s effort to rope in CK Janu is an attempt to incorporate the tribal community into the frameworks of Hindutva agenda. This is in continuation of its policy of having succeeded in similar attempts in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, where the party has seen qua C. K. Janu
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