The origins of Bharat Mata

New Delhi: There are many controversies around the slogan of "Bharat Mata ki Jai"! But the question is, where did it originate and how did it occur?

From various perspectives, the origin of "Bharat Mata" can be traced back to the script of Bangladeshian nationalist Kiran Chandra Bandyopadhyay who first played in 1873.

During the Hungarian famine of 1770, it dramaized the story of a housewife who had to flee to the jungle and had to get into trouble in a group of insurgents and his later husband. Then the pastor took them to the temple and showed them the Indian mother.

A similar depiction of Bharat Mata also began to appear in Indian nationalistic publications in the early twentieth century. Although it is diverse, the image has some basic basic functions.

They are characterized by women wearing surrey and the crown of the foreground is related or related to the performance of mapping in India.

As the Indian struggle for independence progresses, nationalist heroes are included in the picture. And, standing next to "Mother", Lion shows that it symbolizes courage and courage

According to the 2012 paper by TG Fiorito, a scholar at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, "Since Britain created a form of India by colonial geography, Indian nationalists created a new Indian cultural image."

However, the report by Manushi Magazine, created by writer Madhu Kishwar, calls phylogeny of the image of "Bharat Mata" as Unabimsa Purana or "The Nineteenth Purana" by Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay which was first published in 1866. .

In this article, "Bharat Mata" is identified in this article as the widow Adhi-Bharati of Arya Swami, which is basically a manifestation of "Aryan", Manushi reports. It also refers to the drama of Kiran Chandra Bandyopadhyay which depicts the image of the motherland taken away.

In the 1920s, the representative of Bharat Mata took a more rigorous political color, Manusi's paper notes, including Mohatma Gandhi and Burgat Singh's mention. Another major change is the introduction of three colors in the image.

According to Manushi's article, icons to the field of religious practice dates back to the 1930s. In 1936, Shiv Prashad Gupt built the Bharat Mata Temple in Benaras opened by Mahatma Gandhi.

There is no statue of any god or goddess in the temple. According to the article, it has only Indian marble relief map.

Barratmata is a work created by Indian artist Abanindranath Tagore in 1905. This work depicts the mother of Bharat Mata or India in the style of the goddess of Hinduism. This picture is the first example of the concept and ideally drawn in Swadesh during the larger Indian independence movement. When Tagore first studied at Sanskrit University in Kolkata in the 1880s, he was exposed to the art of learning. In his early days Tagore painted a naturalistic style of Europe so that it could be seen from his early picture like Armory. About 1886 or around 1887, Gagada Nandini Devi, a relative of Tagore, held a meeting between Tagore and E. B Havell, a curator of the Kolkata National University of Arts. Havel got a local art collaborator, his idea was the same as his own, and Tagore got him a teacher to teach science in Indian art history. "

But Abanindranath Tagore 's Bharat Mata is very different from the people' s images in their minds. His Bharat Mata is a beautiful young lady in an orange sari and looks like a sad person standing by the lotus pond. Behind her head, there are halos in the four hands, giving her a sacred appearance. In each of her hands, she has a sacred manuscript, Axama, or a rosary, a vast portion of cloth and a mountain of leaves of rice. She has a calm attitude and is an embody of grace. She is a combination of Saraswati and Lakshmi, they are very respected gods, the former is knowledge and the latter is prosperity. In general, the gods seem to mean that the motherland has shiksha, diksha, Anna and vasta gifts, knowledge, spirituality, food and clothing.