She also claims that “modern secular and scientific mapped knowledge is hijacked” to assist that “unraveling”. At another level, Sumathi Ramaswamy, professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University, considers the imagery of Bharat Mata as the undoing of the European enlightenment through “the recuperation of old myths and the return of fancy”. As one cannot have two mothers, India cannot be considered as his mother, he said. Recently, a Dravidian politician claimed that to him, only Tamil was mother. There are some who deny her ancient roots. Both her devotees and detractors at one time or another identified her with Kali.
She was disliked and feared by the colonialists.
Often portrayed carrying the national flag and riding a lion, she is to most Indians, a goddess in her own right. The Shakti we call India, Bhawani Bharati, is the living unity of the Shaktis of three hundred million people …”īharat Mata or Mother India is a name that evokes a deeply emotional veneration in almost all Indians. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the millions of units that make up the nation, just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini sprang into being from the Shaktis of all the millions of gods assembled in one mass of force and welded into unity. “For what is a nation? What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind.
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