So, all parts of India are roughly covered in the national anthem. Tagore refers to features of physical geography as well: the Vindhya and Himalayan Mountain ranges and the Yamuna and Ganga rivers. Here are all the regions that the National Anthem of India mentions – Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, the southern states speaking Dravidian languages, Odisha and Bengal. The Constituent Assembly of India adopted the first verse out of the five verses of the song ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as the National Anthem on 24 th January 1950. Tagore merely wanted to paint a beautiful picture of India’s physical boundaries, its rich cultural heritage. Importantly, Tagore did not compose this song as a national anthem, since at that time, India was still under British rule. The song was written in Bengali, but in a Sanskritized dialect called Sadhu Bhasha. When India was still under British occupation and the colonisers were having a time of their life looting our rich country, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore composed a song called ‘ Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata’.
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