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Jana Gana Mana (lit. ' [Ruler of] the minds of the people ' ) is the national anthem of the Republic of India . It was originally composed as " Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata " in Bengali by polymath Rabindranath Tagore [ 1 ] [ 2 ] on 11 December 1911.
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Jana Gana Mana [26] ("Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People") [27] 24 January 1950 (Dominion of India) [26] 26 January 1950 (Republic of India) [10] "Jana Gana Mana" is taken from Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata, composed in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore on 11 December 1911. [28] It was first publicly sung on 27 December 1911 at Calcutta. [29]
Jana Gana Mana was written in shadhu-bhasha, a Sanskritised register of Bengali, and is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn that Tagore composed. It was first sung in 1911 at a Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress and was adopted in 1950 by the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of India as its national anthem.
The two anthems are often sung together, with the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Māori ("Aotearoa") and the second in English. India has both a national anthem, Jana-gana-mana, and a national song, Vande Mataram. Jana-gana-mana was originally written in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911 and adopted as the national anthem in 1950.
Tagore made the first English translation of the song at Madanapalle. On the occasion of India attaining freedom, the Indian Constituent Assembly assembled for the first time as a sovereign body on 14 August 1947, midnight and the session closed with a unanimous performance of Jana Gana Mana.
A drawing by Nandalal Bose illustrating Tagore's poem "Birpurush (The Hero), an English-language translation of which appeared in the 1913 Macmillan publication of Tagore's The Crescent Moon. Internationally, Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি) is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
Jana Gana Mana is a music video produced in 2000 featuring a number of prominent Indian musicians and singers performing the Indian national anthem "Jana Gana Mana." The video was released on 26 January 2000 to mark the 50th year of the Constitution of India and the Republic Day .