In 1971, Krishna Bose found the bill for the orchestration of Jana Gana Mana in the archives of Hamburg’s Rathaus. On the occasion of the inauguration of the Deutsche-Indische Gesellschaft in Hamburg on 11 September 1942, a German orchestra played for the first time Tagore’s song as India’s national anthem. An elaborate orchestration of the song was done in Hamburg, Germany, in September 1942. He was open to considering Muhammad Iqbal’s song Sare Jahan se Achha Hindustan Hamara-proclaiming the excellence of India compared to the whole world-but in the end the decision was in favour of Tagore.ĭinendranath Tagore had written down the musical score of Jana Gana Mana in 1918. He had played a key role in resolving the controversy surrounding the later verses of the other song, Bande Mataram, in 1937. Jana Gana Mana Adhinayak Jaya He-was chosen by Netaji as the national anthem-a choice that would be ratified by the Indian constituent assembly after Independence. When Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose inaugurated the Free India Centre in Europe on 2 November 1942, the green, saffron, and white tricolour of the Indian National Congress was adopted as the national flag.
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