Correct Answer - Option 4 : 24 January 1950
The correct answer is 24 January 1950.
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The Hindi version of the national anthem of India (Jana-Gana-Mana ....) was adopted on 24 January 1950.
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National Anthem:
- The song Jana-Gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950.
- It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Kolkata Session of the Indian National Congress.
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Rabindranath Tagore had published it in ‘Tatvabodhini’ in 1912 with the title ‘Bharat Bhagya Vidhata’ and translated it into English in 1919 with the title ‘Morning song
of India’.
- The credit of composing the present tune (music) of our national anthem goes to Captain Ram Singh Thakur (an I.N.A. sepoy).
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National Song:
- The song ‘Vande Mataram’ was composed in Sanskrit by Bankim Chandra Chatterji.
- It has an equal status with Jana-Gana mana.
- The first political occasion was when it was sung at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
- The song was published in the novel ‘Anandmath’, authored by Bankim Chandra Chatterji, and was adopted as the National Song on 24 January 1950.
