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{{short description|Building in Kolkata, India}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
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| name = Mahajati Sadan
| status = Active
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| caption = Mahajati Sadan, Kolkata
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| owner = West Bengal Government
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| address = 166, [[Chittaranjan Avenue]], [[Kolkata]] - 700007
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| inauguration_date = 19 August 1939
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'''Mahajati Sadan''' is an auditorium located on [[Chittaranjan Avenue]] in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India.<ref name="Mahajati Sadan">{{cite web|title=Mahajati Sadan|url=http://www.tathyabangla.gov.in/doc/Mahajati_Sadan.pdf|publisher=West Bengal Government|access-date=2 July 2012}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> This auditorium is regularly used for [[Bengali theatre]]s. Seminars are also organized in the seminal hall of Mahajati Sadan. This auditorium was an important part of India's freedom movement.<ref name="Mahajati Sadan auditorium">{{cite web|title=Mahajati Sadan auditorium|url=http://kolkata.explocity.com/sight-seeing/auditoriums/mahajati-sadan-102543-42180/|access-date=2 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130122184130/http://kolkata.explocity.com/sight-seeing/auditoriums/mahajati-sadan-102543-42180/|archive-date=22 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Rabindranath Tagore]] called this auditorium "House of the Nation".<ref name="Bose2004">{{cite book|author=Subhas Chandra Bose|title=The Alternative Leadership: Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters, June 1939-January 1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OMq57T2NVoC&pg=PA8|access-date=2 July 2012|date=1 October 2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-104-3|pages=8–}}</ref>
[[File:Mahajati Sadan Entrance.jpg|thumb|Mahajati Sadan Entrance]]

==History==
[[Subhas Chandra Bose]] made a request to [[Rabindranath Tagore]] to create an auditorium and in response to the request of Bose, Tagore laid the foundation stone of Mahajati Sadan 19 August 1939.
At the foundation-laying ceremony of Mahajati Sadan, Tagore told in his speech:<ref name="Bose2004" />
{{Quote|Today we assemble here to witness the beginning of the fulfilment of a long cherished dream. Those who for years have toiled and suffered – laboured and sacrificed – so that India may be free, have long wished an abode to provide shelter and protection for their activities and to serve as a visible symbol of their hopes and ideal-dreams and aspirations. More than once has the attempt been made to give us the home that we have wanted, but it has failed and it has been left to you to lay the foundation stone of the 'House of Nation'}}
But, the disappearance of Bose stopped the construction work of this building. After the independence of India, [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] showed his interest to complete the construction work of this building and thus "Mahajati Sadan Act 1949" was enacted for completion of the construction.<ref name="Mahajati Sadan" />

==References==
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{{Bengali theatre}}

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[[Category:Bengali theatre]]
[[Category:Culture of Kolkata]]
[[Category:Theatres in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Kolkata]]

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