Notes For All Chapters English Hornbill Class 11 CBSE
The Adventure Summary In English
It is a science fiction. Gangadharpant was a historian. He was also known as Professor Gaitonde. He was travelling by the Jijamata Express. His mind was moving fast. He had arrived at a plan of action. In Bombay, he would go to a big library and look through history books. He will try to find out how the present state of affairs was reached. He had also planned to return to Pune and have a long talk with Rajendra Deshpande.
He hoped that Rajendra would surely help him understand what had happened. At Sarhad station, an anglo-Indian in uniform went through the train, checking their permit. This indicated the border of the British Raj. The tiny Union Jack painted on each blue carriage of the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Railway reminded them that they were in British territory. The imposing building outside Bombay V.T. (Victoria Terminus) announced its identity as ‘East India House, Headquarters of the East India Company’. Professor Gaitonde was prepared for many shocks. But he had not expected this.
The East India Company had been wound up shortly after the events of 1857. Yet, here it was not only alive but flourishing. So history had taken a different turn, perhaps before 1857. He had to find out how and when it had happened. Ashe walked along Hornby Road, he found a different set of shops and office buildings. These were as in a typical high street of a town in England. He turned right along Home Street and entered Forbes building. He told the English receptionist that he wanted to meet Mr Vinay Gaitonde. She consulted telephone list, the staff list and directory of employees of all the branches of the firm. She politely replied that she couldn’t find anyone of the name there or in any other branch. He thanked the girl politely and came out. Taking a quick lunch at a restaurant, he went to the library of the Asiatic Society to solve the riddle. The Town Hall housed the library. He asked for a list of history books including his own.
While reading the fifth volume of history, Gangadharpant finally came to the moment where history had taken a different turn. That page in the book described the Battle of Panipat. It mentioned that the Marathas won it handsomely. Abdali was defeated and pursued back to Kabul by the Maratha army. This victory was a great morale booster to the Marathas. It also established their supremacy in northern India. East India Company suspended its expansionist programme. The company’s influence was reduced to small areas of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. Vishwasrao and his brother Madhavrao combined political sharpness with bravery and expanded their influence all over India. They kept the puppet Mughal regime alive in Delhi. They were clever enough to recognise the importance of science and technology. The East India Company offered aid and experts. The twentieth century brought further changes.
Inspired by the West, India moved towards a democracy. The Peshwas were gradually replaced by democratically elected bodies. The Shahenshah of Delhi survived this change as he exercised no real influence. He okayed the recommendations made by the central parliament. Gaitonde read on and began to appreciate the India he had seen. It had never been slave to the British. Gangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew with what he was witnessing around him. He felt his investigations were incomplete. He wanted to know how the Marathas won the battle. He looked for the accounts of the battle itself. He came across ‘Bhaushebanchi Bakhar’.
He knew that Bakhars contained detailed but falsified account. He hoped to see the germ of truth. He read the three line account of how close Vishwasrao had come to being killed. As the professor left the table, he shoved some notes into his right pocket. Absent-mindedly, he also shoved the ‘Bakhar’ in his pocket. He found a guest house to stay in, took his meals and set out for a stroll to the Azad Maidan. A lecture was in progress there. He found the presidential chair unoccupied. He swiftly moved towards the chair. The audience asked him to vacate the chair and leave the platform. Gangadharpant kept talking to the audience. He had the experience of speaking at 999 meetings. He became a target for a shower of tomatoes, eggs and other objects.
Finally, the audience swarmed to the stage to eject him. Gandgadharpant could not be seen anywhere in the crowd. Two days later Gangadharpant narrated everything to Rajendra Deshpande. He was back in the world he was familiar with. He did not know exactly where he had spent two days. Rajendra asked him what he had been doing just before his collision with the truck. Professor Gaitonde replied that he was thinking of the catastrophe theory and its implications for history.
Then he produced a page torn out of a book. It was a page from the Bakhar. The book was lost in the melee at Azad Maidan. Rajendra read the page which described how Vishwas Rao narrowly missed that bullet and how that event turned the tide in their favour. Then Gangadharpant produced his own copy of ‘Bhausahebanchi Bakhar’. The relevant page described how Vishwasrao was hit by a bullet. Rajendra tried to rationalise his experience on the basis of two scientific theories known till that day. One was the catastrophe theory. The juncture at which Vishwasrao, the son of the Peshwa and heir, was killed proved to be the turning point.
History says that his uncle, Bhausaheb, rushed into the melee and was never seen again. The blow of losing their leaders was crucial for the troops. They lost their morale and fighting spirit. An utter rout followed. The torn page showed the crucial event gone the other way. Rajendra said that reality may not be unique. It has been found from experiments on very small systems of atoms and their particles. There is lack of determinism in quantum theory. So there may be many world pictures. All the alternative worlds could exist just the same, though we know the world which are talking about. Catastrophic situations offer radically different alternatives for the world to proceed.
So far as reality is concerned all alternatives are viable, but the observer can experience only one of them at a time. By making a transition, Prof. Gaitonde was able to experience two worlds although one at a time—one he lived in then and the one where he spent two days. He was experiencing a different world though he was in the present. Gangadharpant asked why he had made the transition. Rajendra replied that one needed some interaction to cause a transition. Perhaps he was thinking about the catastrophic theory and its role in war, or he was wondering about the Battle of Panipat. Perhaps the neurons in his brain acted as trigger. Professor Gaitonde admitted that he had been wondering what course history would have taken if the result of the battle had gone the other way.
The Adventure Summary In Hindi
द एडवेंचर जयंत नार्लीकर द्वारा लिखित एक अनूठी कहानी है जिसमें लेखक ने इतिहास और भौतिकी के एक नए मिश्रण को बनाने की कोशिश की है। इस कहानी में वह प्रोफेसर गायतोंडे के अद्वितीय अनुभव के बारे में लिखते हैं। वह समय के साथ अतीत में यात्रा करता है और कुछ ऐसा अनुभव करता है जो कभी अस्तित्व में नहीं था। वह खुद को एक बंबई में पाता है जो कभी अस्तित्व में नहीं था।
अलग-अलग दुनिया में देखा गया बॉम्बे गंगाधरपंत बिल्कुल अलग था। जैसे ही ट्रेन विक्टोरिया टर्मिनस पर रुकी, उसने पाया कि स्टेशन बेहद साफ और स्वच्छ है; काम करने वाले कर्मचारियों में एंग्लो-इंडियन और कुछ ब्रिटिश अधिकारी शामिल थे।
स्टेशन से बाहर आते ही उन्होंने ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी के मुख्यालय को देखा; हॉर्बी रोड पर चलते हुए, उन्होंने ब्रिटिश ब्रांडों की इमारतों को देखा, जैसे कि बूट्स और वूलवर्थ डिपार्टमेंटल स्टोर्स, लॉयड्स, बार्कलेज़ और अन्य ब्रिटिश बैंकों के कार्यालय। सबसे चौंकाने वाली बात फोर्ब्स की इमारत में थी जहां उनके बेटे ने काम किया था, वह उसे वहां नहीं मिला।
फिर वह इतिहास की पहेली को सुलझाने के लिए लाइब्रेरी ऑफ एशियाटिक सोसाइटी गए। एक इतिहासकार के रूप में यह उनका कर्तव्य था कि पानीपत की लड़ाई से संबंधित सच्चाई और वास्तविकता को खोजें। वह पानीपत की लड़ाई का विवरण जानना चाहता था।
जैसा कि उन्होंने किताब पढ़ी वह वास्तव में क्या हुआ था इसके विपरीत विवरणों को खोजने के लिए चकित था। पुस्तक में उन्होंने मराठों के मनोबल को पढ़ा, क्योंकि उनके नेता, विशवासराव ने दुश्मन की रक्षा पंक्ति को सफलतापूर्वक इतने सारे गोलियों से बचकर तोड़ दिया था। इस प्रकार वे अब्दाली के सैनिकों को हराने में सफल रहे।
न केवल मार्तस ने अब्दाली के सैनिकों को हराया था, बल्कि उन्होंने अंग्रेजों को भी रोक रखा था। उन्होंने उत्तर भारत में अपना राज्य सफलतापूर्वक स्थापित कर लिया था और राजनीतिक तीक्ष्णता के माध्यम से भारत को समृद्धि और शक्ति की स्थिति में पहुंचा दिया। उन्होंने वित्त, रक्षा और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय व्यापार जैसे सभी क्षेत्रों में भारत का प्रबंधन और प्रबंधन कुशलतापूर्वक किया था। वह इस घटना पर आश्चर्यचकित था।
पुस्तकालय से निकलने के बाद वह एक गेस्ट हाउस गए और हल्का भोजन किया। प्रोफ़ेसर गायतोंडे आज़ाद मैदान गए जहाँ उनका एक व्याख्यान चल रहा था; मंच पर उन्होंने राष्ट्रपति की कुर्सी को खाली देखा। वहां उन्होंने अनचाही व्याख्यान के बारे में दर्शकों के साथ एक तर्क दिया, जो कि हिंसक निकला। दर्शकों ने मंच पर चढ़कर प्रोफेसर गई को मंच से बाहर फेंक दिया।
थ्रो का प्रोफेसर पर प्रभाव पड़ा क्योंकि इस अनुभव के बाद वह दुनिया के दूसरे अनुभव से बाहर आ गया। वह आजाद मैदान में बेहोश पाया गया था। इस अनोखे अनुभव के रहस्य को सुलझाने के लिए, प्रोफेसर गेतोंडे प्रोफेसर देशपांडे के पास गए।
उसने उन्हें वैज्ञानिक स्पष्टीकरण देने की कोशिश की। प्रोफेसर देशपांडे के अनुसार, वास्तविकता ऐसी चीज है जिसे हम अपनी इंद्रियों के माध्यम से अनुभव करते हैं जो एक प्रकार के उपकरण हैं। इन इंद्रियों या साधनों की सीमाएँ हैं। जिसे हम वास्तविकता कहते हैं, उसमें अन्य अभिव्यक्तियाँ या आयाम हो सकते हैं।
भौतिकविदों ने पाया है कि दुनिया के अलावा कई ऐसी दुनिया हैं जो हम अपनी इंद्रियों के माध्यम से देखते हैं। उन्होंने परमाणुओं की छोटी प्रणालियों और उनके कणों पर प्रयोगों के दौरान कुछ चौंकाने वाला भी पाया है। इन प्रणालियों का व्यवहार अप्रत्याशित है। इसे नियतांक की कमी कहा जाता है। इस कानून को ध्यान में रखते हुए यह कहा जा सकता है कि जिसे हम वास्तविकता कहते हैं वह दूसरी दुनिया में अलग हो सकता है।
देशपांडे के अनुसार, पानीपत की लड़ाई के बारे में अपने अनूठे अनुभव के दौरान गैतोंडे ने एक दुनिया से दूसरी दुनिया में संक्रमण किया। वास्तविकता यह है कि वह कोमा में बंबई का दौरा कर रहे थे। उनके साथ एक दुर्घटना हुई और वे कोमा में चले गए; दुर्घटना के समय, प्रोफेसर गायतोंडे पानीपत की लड़ाई और उस पर तबाही के सिद्धांत के संभावित परिणामों के बारे में सोच रहे थे।
उन्होंने इतिहास को भी बदल दिया, जिसमें भारत कभी भी अंग्रेजों का गुलाम नहीं बना था। उसने यह भी पाया कि मराठों ने पानीपत में अब्दाली के सैनिकों को हराया था। जब वह कोमा में थे, उस समय उनकी चेतना में ब्रिटिश भारत का अनुभव था जिसे वे हमेशा देखना चाहते थे; लेकिन वास्तव में ऐसा भारत कभी अस्तित्व में नहीं था; यह गायतोंडे के दिमाग में ही मौजूद था।
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