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The members of the Indian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations held in New York in 1947 gave a recording of "Jana Gana Mana" as the country's national anthem. The song was played by the house orchestra in front of a gathering consisting of representatives from all over the world.
Lakshmi Sahgal, who was an INA member, favoured the selection of Jana Gana Mana, which was composed by Rabindranath Tagore and had been sung at sessions of the Indian National Congress. She arranged to have it sung at a women's meeting attended by Bose. Bose was taken by the song, which he thought was nationally representative.
The first stanza of the song was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the national anthem on 24 January 1950. [5] The national anthem is played in approximately 52 seconds. [1] [5] National song: Vande Mataram [30] ("Mother, I bow to thee!") [31] 24 January 1950 (Dominion of India) [1] 26 January 1950 (Republic of India) [10]
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
[3] [4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. [5] [6] [7] The poem was first published in 1882 as part of Chatterjee's Bengali novel Anandmath. [8] It is an ode to the motherland, personified as the "mother goddess" in later verses, of the people.
The members of the Indian Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations held at New York in 1947 gave a recording of Jana Gana Mana as the country's national anthem. The song was played by the house orchestra in front of a gathering consisting of representatives from all over the world. Jana Gana Mana was officially proclaimed as ...
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.
Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and the political guru of Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.