Tukaram

Poems

It is uncertain how many poems Tukaram composed, but the standard and most frequently used Marathi edition of his poetry, which first appeared in 1873 from the Indu Prakash Press with funding by the Bombay Government, and has often been reprinted, brings together 4,607 poems. Several manuscripts in Marathi exist of his poems, but some poems are found in only one manuscript version; often poems found in several manuscripts show variations; and there is no single mansucript in Tukaram’s own handwriting with all the poems that are attributed to him. Though Tukaram’s place in the history of the development of Marathi is deemed to be inestimable, and he has been credited with being the single most influential figure in the history of Marathi literature, the body of scholarship on Tukaram outside Marathi is rather small, and translations of his work are woefully inadequate. The only nearly complete translation of Tukaram into English, entitled The Collected Tukaram, was attempted by J. Nelson Fraser and K. B. Marathe, and published in Madras by the Christian Literature Society (1909-1915). A more recent translation of a selection of Tukaram’s poetry by Dilip Chitre has been published as 'Says Tuka'.[2].[3]

Films and Popular Literature

  • Sant Tukaram (1936) - this movie on Tukaram was screened open-air for a year, to packed audiences in Mumbai, and numerous rural people would walk very long distances to see it.
  • Santa Tukaram (1963), in Kannada
  • Sant Tukaram (1965), in Hindi
  • Bhakta Tukaram (1973), in Telugu
  • Tukaram (2012), in Marathi

Tukaram's life was the subject of 68th issue of 'Amar Chitra Katha', India's largest comic book series.


References

  1. ↑ Biography of Sant Tukaram (English) poemhunter.com। Retrieved : 30 April, 2016।
  2. ↑ Delhi: Penguin, 1991
  3. ↑ Tukaram (English) sscnet.ucla.edu। Retrieved : 30 April, 2016।