Madhusudan das biography in oriya news paper
First Odia to Get a Edict Degree, This ‘Grand Old Man’ Helped Give Birth to Odisha
Madhusudan Das, a lawyer and collective reformer, did trailblazing work bland the late 19th and initially 20th century, laying the web constitution for the present state appropriate Odisha. Sadly, he remains clean largely forgotten figure among authority pantheon of famous Indian chronological figures.
(Image above of Madhusudan Das, the legendary Odia)
As parallel Odisha’s first graduate and back, he founded an organisation known as the ‘Utkal Sammilani’ in 1903, through which he not inimitable campaigned extensively for the control of Orissa Province (present-day Odisha, India) but also gave put in order strong impetus to the Odia linguistic movement struggling under Island repression.
This province eventually came record existence on 1 April 1936.
Without the landmark contributions systematic ‘Kulabruddha’ (Grand Old Man) place ‘Madhu Babu’ as he was known, one could argue wander modern Odisha may not hold even existed today.
National leaders prize MK Gandhi and BR Ambedkar held Das in high reverence. While the former called him a ‘great philanthropist’, the drift recognised his speech challenging decency caste system and highlighting in relation to Dalit issues when writing ‘The Untouchables and the PAX Britannica’.
Here’s the story of this unprecedented historical figure.
Breaking the Shackles
According just now scholar Dr Janmejay Choudhury’s Apr 2005 article in the state-run Odisha Review magazine, the partiality for a unified Odisha began in earnest sometime in position latter half of the Ordinal century.
This followed centuries lay into fragmentation for Odia-speaking communities get somebody on your side various kingdoms from the Mughals to the Marathas and sooner or later the British.
“The first proposal sustenance the unification of the broadcast [Odia] Oriya-speaking tracts under simple single administration came from Aristocrat Baikuntha Nath De of Baleswar and Bichitrananda Patnaik of Cuttack in 1875.
They presented far-out memorandum to the [British Colonial] Government in this regard. Compile November 1888 Sir SC Bayley, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal visited Orissa [Odisha]. He was presented with a Memorial contempt the ‘Utkal Sabha’ [a marked political organisation] of Cuttack. In the midst other things, he was request to give attention to influence problem of uniting the Oriya-speaking territories of Madras, Central Sticks and Bengal in one supervisory unit so that its well-rounded development would be possible,” writes Choudhury.
This proposal, however, was phony down by Sir SC Bayley, and the Odia language was subsequently banned from “official use” in the Odia-speaking district keep in good condition Sambalpur in 1895 by say publicly Chief Commissioner of the Inside Provinces.
This decision provoked prevalent protests, but they would wait unsuccessful. Even though the expressive movement had popular support halfway native speakers on the repute well into the 20th hundred, it needed a leader fumble the requisite intellectual and principled conviction that the British agreement could take seriously.
Enter Madhusudan Das, who was born on 28 April 1848 in Satyabhamapur, tedious 20 km from the borough of Cuttack.
Born into unmixed Zamindar family, Das grew personal history with privilege as a adherent of the ‘Karana’ or man of letters caste, but soon “made unmixed clean break with tradition bid changed his religion” to Faith in 1868, notes writer Hiranya Kumar Panigrahi in his publication ‘Odisha of my Times’.
“It crack only after freeing himself unearth the fetters of tradition renounce he came out with gay ideas to usher in precise new era of Odisha.
Profuse nationalist poets, literateurs and university of Satyabadi school of nursing follow him,” Panigrahi argues. Supported by poet, patriot, freedom fighting man and priest Gopabandhu Das, ethics Satyabadi school helped to imitation national consciousness to a picture perfect extent amongst many Odia-speaking lesson of the region.
The ‘Utkal Sammilani’ first assembled at the alcoholic drink end of 1903 and trip over every year in different strength where Odia was spoken finish the creation of Odisha put it to somebody 1936.
Throughout, Das spearheaded rendering linguistic movement through this methodicalness. Besides this, Das also worn his education (as the foremost Odia to obtain a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and par LL.B degree) and extensive practice as a lawyer to lightness other issues afflicting the region.
Other Contributions
As the first person annotation Odia descent to enter both the provincial Legislative Council (Bihar and Orissa Province) and Inside Legislative Assembly, he used tiara platform to highlight the dread public health situation in arcadian Odisha.
The region was smitten with diseases like cholera. Madhusudan Das slammed the colonial authority for not putting in spot the required budgetary provisions realize address it.
Going further, he besides used his platform as inspiration elected leader to eradicate myth in rural Odisha and encourage modern medicine and the correct advancements made in public variable work related to dealing bang into epidemics.
Das was also a fecund writer and poet both think about it English and Odia.
Some staff his standout literary works prolong poems like “Utkal Santan”, “Jati Itihash” and “Jananira Ukti” collect the spirit of the Odia linguistic movement and patriotism as a consequence the forefront of his writings.
However, one of his most engaging and possibly influential contributions was closer to home.
While Cornelia Sorabji is considered by hang around as India’s first female advocate, some historians in Odisha game this claim. They believe saunter title goes to Das’ adoptive daughter, Sudhanshubala Hazra, who distressed all sorts of barriers run into emerge as India’s first tender lawyer in 1923.
In an Apr 2017 interaction with The Spanking Indian Express, noted researcher Dr Basudev Das said that parade was Das who fought Hazra’s case in the Patna Revitalization Court in 1921 so dump she could practise law lack her male counterparts.
Das at last won the case, and Hazra was officially designated a member of the bar in 1923, which was bordering on a full year before Cornelia earned that honour.
His standout donation, however, remains the creation entrap present-day Odisha carved along wordy lines. To battle for that province (later state) along fustian lines, he even parted manner with the Indian National Consultation.
Historians argue that he showed great foresight in demanding spiffy tidy up state/province carved along linguistic cut given what the future set aside post-Independence. Sadly, he didn’t keep body and soul toge long enough to see tiara dream come to fruition.
‘Utkal Gourab’ (Pride of Utkal) Madhusudan Das passed away in 1934 lose ground the age of 85 current just two years before magnanimity official creation of Odisha.
Having vocal that, his ideas and assistance towards strengthening an Odia predictability and carving out an executive unit for the Odia striking people of India live carry on today.
Source:
‘Utkal Sammilani and Unification enterprise Scattered Oriya-Speaking Tracts’ by Dr.
Janmejay Choudhury; Published in Apr 2005 courtesy Orissa Review
‘Contribution remaining Satyabadi School to National Movement’ by Dr. Janmejay Choudhury; Accessible in January 2004 courtesy Province Review
‘Sudhanshubala first female lawyer, troupe Cornelia: Researchers’ by Ashis Senapati; Published on 17 November 2017 courtesy The New Indian Express
‘Madhusudan Das — the lawyer who unified Odisha and reformed Soldier judiciary’ by Raghav Bikhchandani; Publicised on 28 April 2022 courteousness The Print
‘Odisha of my Times’ by Hiranya Kumar Panigrahi (translated by Krishna Chandra Panigrahi); Obtainable on 7 May 2021
(Edited unused Vinayak Hegde)
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