Friday, September 25, 2015

Adilabad has link with pioneer of Ganesh fest

Kubeer mandal in Adilabad district of Telangana has a historical link with Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak who first introduced installation of Ganesh idols in public to unite the people of Hindu religion.

Tilak came to Kubeer to attend a marriage function of his friend Dadasaheb Khaparde of Amravathi’s son with daughter of Ganeshrao Deshmukh Kubherkar on April3, 1905.

During his stay, Bal Gangadhar Tilak motivated people of Kubeer to install Ganesh idol in their village. Tilak was campaigning in what is now Maharashtra border area to install Ganesh idols to unite the Hindus and also to fight the British.

Wooden Ganesh idols were popular in those Marathi speaking areas, and that was 
how Bhainsa, now a communally sensitive town, become prominent place for Ganesh idol installation. Kubeer was just 17 km from Bhainsa town.

S. Pravin Kumar of Kubeer said ‘ first local people installed Ganesh idol in Vittaleshwar temple with the motivation of Balagangadhar Tilak and later on the event spread to other villages in and around Kubeer and added that Tilak’s portrait was kept in the Vittaleswhara temple for long years showing his link to Kubeer’. 

                                                                                                     
                                                                                                        (Sept 21,2015) 

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