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O des mere teri shaan pe sadke
Posted on: December 16, 2021
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This day that year 50 years ago.
16 dec 1971
It was on this day 50 years ago that the biggest surrender of an army was signed at 16:01 IST at Dacca. Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora of Indian Army got Pakistan Army’s Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi to sign on the instrument of surrender. The original of this surrender memo is available in National Museum, New Delhi. The text of the instrument of surrender read :
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The first gramophone recording of songs in India was done in November 1902. However, the records were marketed only in 1903. A cursory glance at the various issues of Society of Indian Records Collectors (SIRC) indicates that early gramophone recordings were confined mostly to songs sung by ‘Bais’, ‘Devis’, ‘Jaans’, ‘Begums’ etc who mainly belonged to professions like courtesans, dancing, private concert singers etc. In view of their background, they recorded mostly semi-classical songs in the genre of Thumri, Dadra, Ghazals, Bhajans, Hori, Chaiti, Folks music etc. These genres of songs were popular among the masses thanks to theatres where some of the above mentioned singers acted in the plays. The popularity of these songs gave gramophone recording companies profitable business opportunity.
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