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The poem ‘Jana-Gana -Mana’ is an immortal creation of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. The poem seems to focus on most of the great factors or aspects of India and arouse a patriotic feeling in the readers mind. This poem cum song was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1911. To honour their visit, Pandit Motilal Nehru had five stanzas included that are in praise of the King and Queen. It was not taken from any book but was written as an independent poem. Rabindranath Tagore wrote it in praise of India and first sung it in Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.
Background of the poem
"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India. Written in highly Sanskritised (Tatsama) Bengali, the first of five stanzas is a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The poem seems to focus on the regional factors or aspects of India. The provinces that were under British rule, i.e. Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha, Dravid (South India), Orissa and Bengal, were mentioned. None of the princely states – Kashmir, Rajasthan, Hyderabad, Mysore or Kerala – or the states in North-East India, which are integral parts of India now, were mentioned. Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included, since they were directly under Portuguese rule at that time. But opponents of this proposition claim that Tagore mentioned only the borders states of In