Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat
English: Victory To Proud Gujarat | |
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State song of Gujarat | |
Lyrics | Narmadashankar Dave, 1873 |
Adopted | 2011 |
"Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat" (pronounced [d͡ʒay d͡ʒay gər.vi gud͡ʒ.rat]) (English: Victory to Proud Gujarat) is a poem written by Gujarati poet Narmadashankar Dave, better known as Narmad, in 1873. It is used as a state anthem during ceremonies of the Government of Gujarat.[1][2]
Composition[]
Narmad is considered as the first modern Gujarati writer. He has written "Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat" in 1873 as the foreword of his first Gujarati dictionary, Narmakosh.[3][4][2]
In this poem, Narmad epitomises the sense of pride in the region by identifying the region of Gujarati-speaking people. He delineates the boundary within which Gujarati-speaking population live; Ambaji in the north; Pavagadh in the east; Kunteshwar Mahadev near Vapi in the south; and Somnath, Dwarka in the west. This region mentioned by him now forms modern-day Gujarat, the western state of India.[3][5][2] At the end of the poem, Narmad gives hope to the people of Gujarat that the dark clouds is lifting, and a new dawn is about to emerge.[6]
It is used as a state anthem during ceremonies of the Government of Gujarat.[1][2]
In 2011, the composition sung by various Gujarati singers was released by Government of Gujarat.[1]
Lyrics[]
Lyrics are as following:[2]
જય જય ગરવી ગુજરાત (in Gujarati) | Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta (In Latin Transcript) | Victory To Proud Gujarat! (In English) |
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જય જય ગરવી ગુજરાત! |
Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta! |
Victory to proud Gujarat! |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Newest version of Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat song launched(Video)". DeshGujarat. 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
- ^ a b c d e Ibrahim, Farhana (2012). "The Region and Its Margins: Re-Appropriations of the Border from 'Mahagujarat' to 'Swarnim Gujarat'". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (32): 66–72. ISSN 0012-9976 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b Bharat Yagnik; Ashish Vashi (2 July 2010). "No Gujarati dept in Veer Narmad, Hemchandracharya varsities". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Tevani, Shailesh (1 January 2003). C.C. Mehta. Sahitya Akademi. p. 67. ISBN 978-81-260-1676-1. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Desai, Rakesh (2014). "Scripting a Region: Narmad's Idea of Gujarat". Indian Literature. 58 (3 (281)): 175–187. ISSN 0019-5804.
- ^ Suhrud, Tridip. "Narmadashankar Lalshankar: Towards History and Self Knowing" (PDF). Narrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies (Ph.D). Ahmedabad: School of Social Sciences, Gujarat University. p. 33. hdl:10603/46631.
External links[]
- Asian anthems
- Indian poems
- Gujarati-language poems
- Indian state songs
- Symbols of Gujarat
- Poem stubs