The great songs of India's national awakening. We give full text only for songs whose authors died more than sixty years ago and are therefore in the public domain in India; songs still in copyright are described but not reproduced.
In this section
- Vande Mataram — Full Lyrics with Meaning वन्दे मातरम्Bankim Chandra's hymn to the motherland (1875) — India's National Song, all six stanzas
- Jana Gana Mana — Full Lyrics with Meaning जन गण मनTagore's Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata (1911) — the National Anthem, all five stanzas
- Sare Jahan Se Achha — Full Lyrics with Meaning सारे जहाँ से अच्छाMuhammad Iqbal's "Tarana-e-Hind" (1904), all nine couplets with meaning
- Other Patriotic Songs — and Why Some Lyrics Are Not Here अन्य देशभक्ति गीतJhanda Uncha Rahe Hamara, Ae Mere Watan Ke Logo and shakha songs — history without lyrics
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