Behind the rise of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, there was his mother, Jijabai Shahaji Bhonsale.
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India’s future anthem first rang out not in Parliament or at Red Fort, but from the small, steady voices of schoolchildren in a crowded Calcutta hall. On a winter morning in Bowbazar, Calcutta, in late December 1911, as the winter sunlight slanted across the neighbourhood and the hum of rickety tramlines filled the air, delegates gathered in a modest single-storey hall called Bharat Sabha, dressed in starched dhotis and woollen shawls. Inside, the annual session of the Indian National Congress was in full swing, wrestling with questions of empire, self‑respect, and the uneasy new fact of Delhi being declared the capital. And then, on 27 December - the second day of the session - something quieter but, in hindsight, far more enduring happened: a group of schoolchildren walked up and began to sing a new Bengali hymn written by Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore’s hymn, a niece, and a new sound The ...
India’s future anthem first rang out not in Parliament or at Red Fort, but from the small, steady voices of schoolchildren in a crowded Calcutta hall. On a winter morning in Bowbazar, Calcutta, in late December 1911, as the winter sunlight slanted across the neighbourhood and the hum of rickety ...
India’s future anthem first rang out not in Parliament or at Red Fort, but from the small, steady voices of schoolchildren in a crowded Calcutta hall. On a winter morning in Bowbazar, Calcutta, in late December 1911, as the winter sunlight slanted across the neighbourhood and the hum of rickety ...
India’s future anthem first rang out not in Parliament or at Red Fort, but from the small, steady voices of schoolchildren in a crowded Calcutta hall. On a winter morning in Bowbazar, Calcutta, in late December 1911, as the winter sunlight slanted across the neighbourhood and the hum of rickety ...
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