"Satyendranath's younger brother, Jyotirindranath's poem composed for the Mela the same year ('Rise! 0 rise! children of Bharat') returned to the theme of resistance by portraying Mother India where she is Sickly and withered, a body of skin and bones,While the mighty demons Subjection and Ignorance Suck her blood and wound her soul And selfish Disunity, the monstrous fiend Her fair body into fragments doth hack! ...Behold, the mother sits captive In ignorant darkness, with feet and hands shackled."
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Jyotirindranath, quoted in Indira Chowdhury - The Frail Hero and Virile History_ Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal-Oxford University Press (1998) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857. ch V
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