December 27th 1911 :: Over 110 Years and That Building, where “ VANDE MAATRAM, SUJHALAM , SHUFALAAM ” was " FIRST " Sung and the Indian TRI-COLOUR was FURLED
Pic :: That Building Of Kolkatta/Calcutta, where the FIRST National Song Was sung
There again and there had been one building at Kolkatta now and Calcutta then when on December 27th 1911 or December 31st 1911 when, as one would like to ask , the NATIONAL SONG of India was sung
It becomes HISTORICALLY important to display or furnish the picture of that Building where that historical event had taken place.
Pic :: Rabindranath Tagore
December
27th 1911 :: It Is Over 110 Years That “VANDE MAATRAM, SUJHALAM , SHUFALAAM ” was
Sung and the Indian TRI-COLOUR was FURLED
This is a real story and ONE which should make the entire
INDIANS world over to be very proud of their ancestor’s and their MOTHERLAND
– MOTHER INDIA> the land
that carries us and gives us the place to survive .
This entire article will reflect how ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TEN-YEARS
ago, the Indians first raised their national flag exactly on December 27th
1911 as many of the HISTORIANS say and some believe it to be December 31sr 1911
, though there are many evidence of the
fact that the ACTUAL and the REAL date was December 27th 1911 but
for a few it was also December 31st 1911 and to remove the barracde
I place the article on December 31st because on December 30th
1943 Mr Subash Chandra Bose also had raised the Indian flag at Anadaman and
Nocobar and had ANNOUNCED that it was the NATION INDIA whose flag he was
raising at Andaman and Nicobar Island.
The colour of the flag was the TRI-COLOUR but the EMBLEMS
changed from time to time and I shall write and explain all about the same here
in my write up.
The year was 1911. India, particularly Bengal, had just come out
of the political crisis of Partition. Bengal TWICE was divided, first in 1905
which is FAMOULSY known as GREAT PARTITION OF BENGAL , and again in 1947 when
the OPAAR BAANGLA as the Bengali’s would call it, was CHRISTENED as
EAST-PAKISTAN and was handed over to Pakistan. The rot and the wrought of the
partition and the aftermath of the same, and thereafter the shape of the things to come, was
coming to terms with the British decision to shift the Capital from Calcutta to
Delhi. Amidst all-round protests against the Partition, people of the country
were recharged once again to fight for ‘freedom.'
Thereafter first then the
SONG- VANDE MAATRAM first, and then, quietly, another song penned by the GREAT
KAVIGURU, Mr Rabindranath Tagore, JANA-GANA-MANA-ADHINAYAKA the NATIONAL ANTHEM
in shape of the song took birth at a
corner of Calcutta, and everybody knows that Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya Hey, penned by
Rabindranath Tagore.
The purely indigenous song, first penned by Rabindranath Tagore
in 1911 while writing his BOOK- “” GEETANJALI ”” , which was translated into
English by an Englishman , and handed over to Mr Tagore, and which was re-corrected again by Mr Tagore was first sung on December 11th 1991
by Mr Tagore himself, and which has enchanted and has been saluted by
billions of people for the last 110 years, was first sung on the second day of
the annual conference of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta on December
27, 1911.
It was the song VANDE MAATRAM which till then till December 27th
1911 used to be the SONG on everybody’s lips who would go all out to fight the
British and when HANGED would chant this one from the Bankim Chandra
Chottopadhya’s book, “ ANANDMUTT ” and would lay his life for Mother India.
However thereafter it was Madam Sarala Devi Chowdhurani — Tagore's niece —
intoned the song, along with a few schoolstudents, in front of the gathering of
the then INC president Bishan Narayan Dar and other leaders such as Bupendra
Nath Bose and Ambika Charan Mazumder.
Soon after the Congress conference, in January 1912, the song
first appeared before the public under the title Bharata- Bhagya- Vidhata,
which means INDIA WILL BE THE DESTINY OF THE WORLD WHICH IS THE GOD OF THE
EARTH , in Tottvobodhini Patrika
(official organ of the Brahma Samaj), of which Tagore was editor. Later that
month, in a Maghotsava ceremony, it was sung again at the Bard’s Jorasanko
residence.
Controversy
. Nothing that does not surmount any kind of an controversy at
India and there were plenty that and those wee surfacing and surfing during the
British rule and it’s rein at India. A controversy surrounding the song — that
it was a paean to the British monarch — refused to die down even as it faced
strong comparison with another eloquent patriotic song, Vande Mataram, composed by renowned Bengali author and
reformist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. In keeping with the surging patriotic
emotions of the time, Vande Mataram soon became the mantra for freedom
fighters. The one’s to do it were the Britishers.It did that so that the people
in themselves keep on the fight to themselves rather than fighting the
Britishers and that would set the things at esae and at esae ie say at REST for
the Britishers .
In 1917, the Congress conference was held again in Calcutta
under the presidentship of Madam, Annie Besant, founder of the Theosophical Society of India,
and Tagore was invited to address the gathering. On the second day, Jana Gana
Mana was rendered by Sarala Devi — introducing the song's spirit as the
life-force of freedom fighters — which was in aid of instrumental music by the Mahraja
Bahadur of Nattore.
Historic session
In 1919, Tagore travelled to Madanapalle in Andhra Pradesh and
spent five days at the Theosophical College with Irish poet James
H. Cousins, who was the principal.
On the evening of February 28, 1919, the poet, for the first
time, sang the inspiring devotional song and enthralled the college
authorities, who selected it as the prayer song.
Tagore subsequently translated the lyrics into English and with
the help of Cousins' wife, Margaret,
who was an expert in western music, set down the notation which is being
followed till today.
This opened the window for the song to reach national and international
audiences.
At the stroke of midnight on August
14, 1947, the historic session of the Indian Constituent Assembly
opened with Vande Mataram and closed with Jana Gana Mana.
In a letter, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru mentioned that during the
General Assembly of the United Nations in New York in 1947, when the Indian
delegation was asked to produce the country's national anthem, the members gave
a recording of Jana Gana Mana, which was played by the orchestra in front of
the world gathering and it received applause for its distinctive and
dignified tune.
A 47 second of the NATIONAL ANTHEM ::
The entire song JANA-GANA-MANA is of ONLY 47 seconds but the
WORDS, JAYE HEY, JAYA HEY, JAYA, JAYA , JAYA, JAYA HE , and OUTSTRETCHED sound
or the throw at the last of the song and the music that it provides while
rendering the rendition stretches the music at time a bit long to make it an
affair of 52 SECONDS. That is why it is said that the INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM spans out
a TIME
of 47
seconds to 52 seconds.
Selection committee
Which of the two song, the VANDE MATRAM or the JANA-GANA –MANA would
be the NATIONAL anthem and who would decide the same as TWO songs cannot be the
national anthem of a single country.
It was a task that appeared to be
herculeam and definitely IT was . Hence it was decided to select one with a BRILLIANT
Brain to do that.
Finally, a committee was formed by the Constituent Assembly to
select the National Anthem .
On January 24th , 1950, when the Assembly met to
sign
the Constitution of India, President Rajendra Prasad officially declared Jana
Gana Mana the……. “ National Anthem ” and “ Vande Mataram ” the national song.
At the closing of the ceremony, the President, on the request of
the first Deputy Speaker, Madabhushi
Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, asked all members to sing the national
anthem in chorus. The song was led by Madam Purnima
Banerji and sung in chorus for the first time after its adoption as our
national anthem.
Assisting the long journey of the Brahma Sangeet was not smooth
for Tagore. But that could never dent his philosophical approach to eternal
human cry. He has engraved his deep sense of patriotism in a manner of
devotion. That is why the great poet could anticipate the time and write…
“ Year 1400 ” …………
“ A hundred years from today
who are you, sitting, reading a poem of mine,
under curiosity's sway -
a hundred years from today?
Not the least portion
of this young spring's morning bliss,
neither blossom nor birdsong,
nor any of its scarlet splashes
can I drench in passion
and despatch to your
hands
a hundred years hence !”
The Raising Of The
Indian Tri-colour and the change of the EMBLEM of the Flag
It is all known to
us that Mr Pingalli, a philanthropist from the state of Madras Presidency then
and now Andhra Pradesh which again has been broken into Telengana and Andhra
Pradesh , first made the National Flag which we call it the TRI-COLOUR .He was
the one who produced the idea and made the National Indian Flag also selecting
it’s colour with all the reasins advocated to select the colour of the flag.
Then it was the
GANDHI CHAKRA which was the EMBLEM in the MIDST of the flag. It was because
Mahatma Gandhi had advocated to use the KHADI as the MAIN OUTFIT and ATTIRE for
the same ie for wearing it to raise a feeling of WADESHI and instill the spirit
of INDIANISM to fight the Britishers and in those days the CHAKRA which spun
the cotton to get it’s thread for weaving
the clothes , was adopted as the EMBLEM of the flag.
Pic :: Mr Bankim Chandra Chhottopadhya
However it was
Netaji Subash Chandra Bose who, after capturing the Andaman and the Nicobar
island from the Britishers on December 30th 1943 , raised a NEW Flag
which DID contain the TRI-COLOUR but it
did carry the ASHOKA PILLARS of the
STUPA OF SANCHI as the EMBLEM signifying to the WORLD that though BULLETS were
pumped to win the FREEDOM by his Army, the IDEALS of INDIA was NON-VIOLENCE and
it TRULY believed in the PRINCIPLES of the NON-VIOLENCE as PREACHED by Gautam
Buddha who renounced the WORLD to EMBRACE “ PEACE ” through his teaching of
BUDDHISM which MAINLY was that PEACE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION to all the problem
that the world would face and facing.
It also may be mentioned here that Netaji Subash Chandra Bose SANG both the song, VANDE MATRAM and JANA -GANA-MANA on that occasion while raising that flag at Andaman and Nicobar after HOOFING out the Britshers from that Island .
It was on December
31st 1949 that the IDEA of putting the WHEEL of the ASHOKA
CHAKRA , which carried 16 rpt , SIXTEEN SPIKES , was
put and REPLACED as a PERMANENT EMBLEM of the FLAG of INDIA, ie the TRI-COLOUR
Flag and the reason was that when India
secured her INDEPENDENCE , they were only 16 STATES that it had then and those
16 SPIKES meant that there were 16 states then with India . Now it is a summation
of 30 states coupled with the Union territories.
December 27th
1911, December 30th 1943 and December 31st 1911 ,
whichever and whatever the dats might be and the CHANGE of the EMBLEM in the
Tri Colour Flag of India , it is 110 years from that day that the FLAG OF INDIA
ie the TRI-COLOUR was raised for the
FIRST time here at India and THIS IS THE
REASON THE DAYS BECOME AN COMMOMERATIVE DAY in the annals of the Indian HISTORY
and this complete the ESSENCE of wiring this article.
Well , that is it and That sums it all.
Regards and Thanks
Pics
Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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