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they have not given priority to land. here was no acquiring or buying of land from the past. hey inherited the right to beg and work in the whole village.
However, they now cultivate some public land in which they settle. Because it is not enough, they work at other’s houses
bhus. Nowadays some Badis are involved in daily agricultural wage labor like planting rice.
4.2.3 Occupational skills
Badis earn their living by using their skills and art. hey not only play musical instruments but also make them, such as
maadal, dhole, tabala, and damaha nagara. hey have invented and developed many musical instruments.
he older generation had no knowledge of copyright, so people other than Badis are claiming copyright and intellectual property rights of instruments.
According to Nirmal Badi, a teacher in Dang, the young generation should be mobilized for such rights, but it would be late when such actions take
place. Similarly, Basan Badi says it is necessary to put social, political, and moral pressure on the government. All skills, crafts, and arts of Badis should
be preserved, and for that the younger generation should come to the front. here is a story about the origin of
maadal, which every Badi knows. It is an ancient story. Once Indra,
the king of heaven, organized a feast for the gods and provided
them with every amenity. However, one god said that he felt something
was missing. When Indra asked what it was, the god told him that
they needed entertainment. hen, Indra ordered the angels to sing
and dance. But without music the dance was not good, so Indra asked humans to make musical instruments. he
humans worked hard to make instruments using diferent woods but did not succeed. Finally, a man made a maadal, and as it did not produce any sound,
frustrated, he threw the drum from the clif. When the drum was rolling, he heard the drum making a sound like chamal-challi. He brought the drum back
and made a paste of rice chaamal and chicken challa and pasted it on both sides of the drum, and the drum began to make sound. In this way, maadal was
invented, and in its tune, the angels of heaven began to sing.
Most of the Badis believe this story because, according to them, even now when they make the
maadal they worship it by sacriicing a fowl and ofering one mana of rice. It shows that fowl and rice are essential for sounding the maadal.
Badis are the inventors of maadal. hey also invented pakwaj, which is similar
to maadal but with both sides equal in size and shape. Pakwaj is used when
angels dance in heaven. here is also a story of the origin of
sulpa. At a time when there was no sulpa, people used to wrap tobacco in a
saal leaf and smoke it. Such type of smoking went on for years. One day a Badi man, while making earthen pots, made a die
in the shape of sulpa and thought that it would be strong when ired in heat. He
then heated it and it was hard. In this way, sulpa was invented, and it became
popular for many years until the invention of cigarette. In some villages, the sulpa remains important.
Sulpa, a profession of Badi
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4.2.4 Inheritance
