BABA ALLAUDDIN KHAN
Baba Allauddin Khan's ancestor, four generations before him, that is, his great great grandfather was a Hindu who worked for Bhavani Pathak and Devi Chowdhurani. He was called Siraju and was the son of Dinanath Dev Sharma who was a saintly figure and much venerated by locals. When the British went after him, he escaped in the guise of a Muslim, attire and beard et al, and subsequently converted to Islam to permanently conceal his identity in his new rural residence which had afforded him shelter. He was renamed Sams Fakir.
Allauddin's elder brother Aftabuddin was an ascetic who practised austerities in Mother Kali's name. Allauddin himself worshipped Devi Sarada in Maihar even as he performed his ritual daily five time namaz. Every year at the time of the special worship of the goddess he would climb hundreds of steps up a hill to reach the shrine where he would prostrate before the image in veneration. And this ritual he maintained till quite an advanced age.
Allauddin's younger daughter, Roshanara, converted to Hinduism at the time of her marriage with Pandit Ravi Shankar and was given the Hindu name, Annapurna, by Maharaj Brijnath Singh of Maihar.
Allauddin Khan's grandson Ashish Khan is for practical purposes a Hindu.
Both Allauddin Khan and Aftabuddin Khan visited the Belur Math. Aftabuddin, being of a spiritual bent of mind, used to talk spirituality with Swami Brahmananda and the like.
Allauddin once enthralled Raja Maharaj at Belur Math with his sarod recital so much that the sage spontaneously suggested that the maestro play Shukla Bilawal after he had completed the rendition of a particular raga. Whereupon Allauddin broke down into tears and, clasping Maharaj's feet, said, "Maharaj, it is only possible for a person like you to get to know that after this raga that I have played, Shukla Bilawal is the perfect follow-up raga." The sage with eyes shut remained merged in listening to the rendition even as the maestro immersed himself in the oceanic depths of his music.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Allauddin Khan at his residential room in Maihar surrounded by photographs and paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who he adored as Avatar (proof in the form of the appended video clipping will be provided as soon as I am able to re-secure it), Swami Vivekananda, Beethoven and other great men.
Baba Allauddin Khan's ancestor, four generations before him, that is, his great great grandfather was a Hindu who worked for Bhavani Pathak and Devi Chowdhurani. He was called Siraju and was the son of Dinanath Dev Sharma who was a saintly figure and much venerated by locals. When the British went after him, he escaped in the guise of a Muslim, attire and beard et al, and subsequently converted to Islam to permanently conceal his identity in his new rural residence which had afforded him shelter. He was renamed Sams Fakir.
Allauddin's elder brother Aftabuddin was an ascetic who practised austerities in Mother Kali's name. Allauddin himself worshipped Devi Sarada in Maihar even as he performed his ritual daily five time namaz. Every year at the time of the special worship of the goddess he would climb hundreds of steps up a hill to reach the shrine where he would prostrate before the image in veneration. And this ritual he maintained till quite an advanced age.
Allauddin's younger daughter, Roshanara, converted to Hinduism at the time of her marriage with Pandit Ravi Shankar and was given the Hindu name, Annapurna, by Maharaj Brijnath Singh of Maihar.
Allauddin Khan's grandson Ashish Khan is for practical purposes a Hindu.
Both Allauddin Khan and Aftabuddin Khan visited the Belur Math. Aftabuddin, being of a spiritual bent of mind, used to talk spirituality with Swami Brahmananda and the like.
Allauddin once enthralled Raja Maharaj at Belur Math with his sarod recital so much that the sage spontaneously suggested that the maestro play Shukla Bilawal after he had completed the rendition of a particular raga. Whereupon Allauddin broke down into tears and, clasping Maharaj's feet, said, "Maharaj, it is only possible for a person like you to get to know that after this raga that I have played, Shukla Bilawal is the perfect follow-up raga." The sage with eyes shut remained merged in listening to the rendition even as the maestro immersed himself in the oceanic depths of his music.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Allauddin Khan at his residential room in Maihar surrounded by photographs and paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who he adored as Avatar (proof in the form of the appended video clipping will be provided as soon as I am able to re-secure it), Swami Vivekananda, Beethoven and other great men.
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