Rahul Ram learned about this song while he was agitating against the Sardar Sarivar Dam project on the river Narmada. He, along with other activists, were jailed in the police station which used to be house of the Bhil chieftain about whom this song is. Rahul's rendition of this song in the lockup pleased the jailer so much that he brought him home-cooked food to eat.[1]