Rising Kshatriya Consciousness in "Dangdhari Mao” (Minatory Mother) of Rai Saheb Panchanan Barma

Abstract

The Rajbanshi poetic literature has been a significant medium of cultural expression and a powerful means for awakening the community's historic-political awareness. The community's glorified cultural legacy, their degeneration, their subdued pain and agonies of inner desperations, their past and nostalgic landscapes find wonderful poetic expression in Rajbanshi language. The Rajbanshi poetic voices have been very powerful to stir the lost Kshatriyasm and to invoke the goddess of strength for dynamism, rebirth and their regeneration. In early twentieth century Thakur Panchanan Barma published a collection of poems entitled "Dangdhari Mao” (Minatory Mother), thought to be one of the first published anthologies of ‘Modern Rajbanshi poetry' .This paper is to analyze the poems as Rising Kshatriya consciousness of the Rajbanshis.