Surendra Mohun Tagore (1840-1914)
Victoria samrajyan, or, Sanskrit stanzas (with a translation) on the various dependencies of the British Crown, ... set to the respective national music, in commemoration of the assumption by ... Queen Victoria of ... "Indiae Imperatrix" 1876
RCIN 1196822
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S.M. Tagore was a 19th century Bengali musicologist and founder of the Bengal Music School (1871). His panegyrics in Sanskrit express ‘grateful allegiance’ to Queen Victoria, in anticipation of her assuming the title of Empress of India in 1877. This presentation copy made for her was bound in purple velvet jewelled covers.
Tagore later founded the Bengal Academy of Music (1881) and published extensively on music theory. In the early 1880s he set Indian translations of God Save the Queen to popular Indian melodies as national anthems for the Indian Empire.Provenance
Given to Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, during his Tour of India in 1876 for presentation to Queen Victoria.
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