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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