poem of tagore on shivaji maharaj in marathi

If a Hindu gets ill-treated as a Hindu in any part of the world, it constitutes an insult to Hindudom as a whole and must be challenged by Hindus on any front convenient to them.”

The abusive chauvinism of these right-wing influencers and their minions are contrary to the very essence of Hindutva as envisaged by its originator, Vinayak Damodar ‘Veer’ Savarkar, who once said in a speech: This has only served to isolate the Bengali people and greatly hampered the revival of a Hindu movement in West Bengal emerging out of the 4 decades long communist hellhole that it had descended into, victim of a poisonous political ideology which has overtaken and destroyed some of the finest ancient civilisations in the world. Recently the social media space has seen diatribes against the Bengali community from supposedly ‘ Hindutvawadi’ social media influencers who however suffer from gross ignorance about the political, social, religious and intellectual movements in Bengal and its history, apart from the fact that they are motivated by present day political alignments, personal grudges, regional prejudices, and the impressions of unrefined and uninformed minds. We take a look at how Bengal took the lead in igniting the flames of nationalism all over India, co-ordinating patriotic impulses from all regions to build a common movement of resistance, notably with Maharashtra especially in evolving the concept of Hindu nationalism during the vital years of India’s national history in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. There can be no better occasion to start a new series which is a small attempt to highlight the mammoth contribution of this one state to the Indian freedom struggle, fired by devotion towards the Supreme Mother Kali and the ideation of ‘ Hindavi Swarajya’ (self-rule of Hindus in the land of their ancestors) of Maharaj Shivaji. Outside Maharashtra, the only state where ‘Shiv Jayanti’ or Shivaji Jayanti was celebrated with great nationalist fervour was Bengal. However, the general public and the Hindu community largely follow the tradition initiated by Lokmanya Tilak of celebrations on Phalgun vadya tritiya (third day of Phalgun month of the Hindu Vikram Samvat calendar, which falls around February-March) as the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Historians are divided over the exact date of birth, as February 19 th happens to be the anniversary as per “Julian Calendar”, and not the Gregorian Calendar which is followed world over. Each year, February 19 th is observed as ‘Shiv Jayanti’ by the Government of Maharashtra.

Poem of tagore on shivaji maharaj in marathi