AGARTALA, Oct 1 (TIWN): On the 111st birth anniversary of Sachin Dev Barman, (also father of R D Varman) who dedicated his whole life for music, state Tripura has remembered the legendary singer. ICA Minister Bhnaulal Saha has paid floral tribute to the Royal inheritor Sachin Dev Varman at Rabindra Bhawan of Agartala. A close study of Sachin Dev Barman’s biography would reveal the unending bonding between Bengal and the present land Tripura which were inseparable in kingdom’s era led Sachin Devbarman to compose various songs in Bengali as well as Hindi. Sachin Dev Barman’s grandfather Ishan Chandra Manikya (successor of King Krishna Ch Manikya) was the king before his brother Bir Chandra Manikya wore the crown as Ishan chandra's son Nabadwip Dev Barman and other brothers of him were too young to sit on the throne after Ishan Chandra Manikya died.

But later Ishan Chandra Manikya’s son Sachin Dev Barman, after Bir Chandra Manikya's death was deprived to hold to kingdom and unexpectedly a legal problem led Bir Chandra Manikya's son Radha Kishore Maniky to sit on the throne and allegation has been there that Isan Chandra’s son Nawadip Chandra Manikya (father of Sachin Dev Verman) became a victim of deception of the Royal palace.

However, it couldn’t kill the courage of Nawadip Chandra Manikya. First  Sachin Dev Verman was given in a hostel at Agartala. S D Burman's first school was at Kumar Boarding Agartala of Tripura. It was a boarding school in the likes of Harrow and Eton for sons of the royalty and the very rich. SD Burman's father, Raja Nabadweepchandra Dev Burman noticed the teachers were more busy with pampering the sons of the nobility than educating them.

S D Burman's father took him from Kumar Boarding and admitted him at Yusuf School in Comilla, before he was admitted in Class V in Comilla Zilla School. From Comilla Zilla School he completed his Matriculation in 1920 at the age of 14. He then got admitted at Victoria College, Comilla, which is presently Comilla Victoria Government College, from where he passed his IA in 1922 and then BA in 1924. S D Burman left for Kolkata to start an MA in Calcutta University, which he did not finish as music got the better of him for good.

He started his formal music education by training under the musician K. C. Dey from 1925 to 1930; thereafter in 1932 he came under the tutelage of Bhismadev Chattopadhaya, who was only three years his senior. This was followed by training from Kahifa Badal Khan, Sarangi player, and Ustad Allauddin Khan.

 He got K.C. Dey, Ustad Badal Khan and Allauddin Khan into Agartala. Noted Bengal poet laureate, Kazi Nazrul Islam also spent time in their family home in Comilla in the early '20s.

However, it can not be denied that Bir Chandra Manikya and his successors also wise leaders. 

Today those who are fighting for separate land, they should go through the lives of SD Verman and RD Verman and how being struggled, suffered and tortured by life they shined in their lives. Eventhough they were deprived of Manikya  dynasty but they fought back the challenges of lives and that’s  why S D Verman is remembered till day and will be remembered throughout Bangladesh and India.

The kings were also inseparable parts of Bengal (Both East & West Bengal) and their closeness with Bengal intellectual led Rajmala to be scripted in Bengali. Even in 1932’s census also Bengali population was found more than non-Bengalis because that time Tripura was also holding Comilla and Brahmanbaria like places inside its land. But some militants, who later also became MLAs after killing thousands of innocent people are still struggling to change the history, whereas for Tripura’s development and growth the former kings’ roles are undeniable who had unending relation with Bengal and other states of India. 

Popularly known as 'Sachin Karta', he also lent his voice to semi-classical and folk style songs of Bengal.