![]() ![]() Vande Mataram and rakhi-tying emerged as symbols of national unity.īut with the foundation of the Indian Muslim League, the song and the freedom cry of Vande Mataram became controversial. Tagore - the poet who holds the distinction of composing the national anthems of two countries, India and Bangladesh - recorded the song in his own voice in 1904.Ī year later, the Vande Mataram song captured the imagination of freedom fighters of all hues when the British announced partition of Bengal. The first rendition of the song at a Congress session was by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who also composed the tune, in 1896. ![]() The Vande Mataram song became public 10 years before the birth of the Indian National Congress that led the fight for freedom against British rule in India. It was composed in Sanskriti and written in Bengali script. The song was published for the first time in 1875 in Bangadarshan, purportedly as a "page-filler" for the magazine. It was this spiritual-intellectual-colonial cocktail that led, according to independent researchers, Bankim Chandra to the idea of Vande Mataram. It was the idol of Goddess Kali that struck him and he could relate the deity wearing a garland of skulls to his motherland suffering misery and becoming a graveyard. At Lalgola, Bankim Chandra devoted his time to religious deliberations, concentrating on the idols of goddesses. The Raja convinced Bankim Chandra to leave Berhampore and stay at Lalgola palace - its remains are now called Rajbari. The Raja was present on the cricket field when Bankim Chandra was assaulted. ![]() Raja Joginder Narayan of Lalgola, a small principality, got wind of Colonel Duffin's scheme. Insult to Bankim Chandra had now turned into a public humiliation of a high-ranking British military officer.īhakat's 'fact-finding mission' found that Colonel Duffin hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Bankim Chandra. As Colonel Duffin begged an apology, a roar came from the audience. Colonel Duffin was to tender an apology to Bankim Chandra in open court. He moved court.Īfter the initial hearing, the court proposed a solution. A high-ranking officer in the government, Bankim Chandra, took the incident as a huge affront with a large audience in witness. An enraged Colonel Duffin pulled out Bankim Chandra from the palanquin and rained a few punches on him. The palanquin bearers took a short-cut route that passed through the Barrack Square Field where Colonel Duffin was playing cricket. On the fateful day, Bankim Babu, as he was respectfully called, was returning home from his office in a palanquin. ![]() Colonel Duffin was the commanding officer at the Berhampore Cantonment. He was the deputy collector of the Murshidabad district in 1873 and was posted at Berhampore, where his tiff with a British military officer called Colonel Duffin became the talk of the town. ![]()
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