![]() It also refers to Kiran Chandra Bandyopadhyay’s play, Bharat Mata which depicts the image of the dispossessed motherland. In this, “Bharat Mata" is identified in this text as Adhi-Bharati, the widow of Arya Swami, the embodiment of all that is essentially “Aryan," the Manushi report says. They feature a woman in a sari with a crown in the foreground being depicted with or in relation to a cartographic representation of India.Īs India’s struggle for independence progressed, nationalist heroes were incorporated into pictures, shown as standing next to the “mother" with a lion symbolizing courage and valour.Īccording to a 2012 thesis by TG Fiorito, a scholar at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, “as the British had created India’s cartographic shape through its colonial geo-body,a new cultural image of India was created by Indian nationalists."Ī report in the magazine Manushi founded by author Madhu Kishwar, however, traces genealogy of the figure of “Bharat Mata" to a satirical piece titled Unabimsa Purana or “The Nineteenth Purana" by Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay, first published anonymously in 1866. Though varied, the images have a few basic essential characteristics. Similar depictions of Bharat Mata started to appear in Indian nationalist publications at the start of the twentieth century. Emboldened by this,they lead a rebellion which culminates in the defeat of the British.įrom here, the concept of “Bharat Mata" seems to have caught on with Indian nationalists. ![]()
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