Jana Gana Mana (the complete song)
| English: Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People | |
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National anthem of India |
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| Lyrics | Rabindranath Tagore, 1911 |
| Music | Rabindranath Tagore, 1911 |
| Adopted | 24 January 1950 |
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Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India. Written in Bengali, the first of five stanzas of the Brahmo hymn titled Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata are attributed to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The underlying message of Jana Gana Mana is pluralism.
It was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. The "Hindi version" essentially means simply that the Inherent vowel is changed from ô to ə in the official variation, no literal translation is done, nor is necessary, since the Sanskrit words mean the same in all Indian languages. It was sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now, Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress. A formal rendition of the national anthem takes fifty-two seconds. A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play) is also staged occasionally.
The poem is written in a literary register of the Bengali language called sadhu bhasa. The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs. Most of the nouns of the song are in use in all major languages in India. Therefore, the original song is quite clearly understandable, and in fact, remains almost unchanged in several widely different Indian languages. The transcription below reflects the Bengali pronunciation, in both the Bengali script and romanisation.
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