Q40
Indian National MovementPartition of Bengal, Swadeshi & Home Rule
Which Bengal poet composed the song 'Ban eshechhe mora gange' during the Partition of Bengal?
- a.Rabindranath Tagore
- b.Lalan Fakir
- c.Kazi Nazrul Islam
- d.Mukunda Das
Answer: (D) Mukunda Das
PSC's key credits the song 'Ban eshechhe mora gange' ('the flood-tide has come to the dead river') to Mukunda Das, the 'Charan Kavi' of Barisal, whose swadeshi jatras and songs such as 'Chhere dao reshmi churi' roused rural Bengal during the anti-Partition movement of 1905; his play Matripuja was banned and he was jailed. Rabindranath Tagore wrote 'Amar Sonar Bangla' and 'Banglar mati Banglar jal' and led the Rakhi Bandhan of 16 October 1905. Lalan Fakir was a Baul saint who died in 1890, and Kazi Nazrul Islam (born 1899), the 'Bidrohi Kavi', belongs to the 1920s.