Jana Gana Mana controversy that it calls the king as ‘Bharata Bhagya Vidhata’ However, a photocopy was made before the original document left the country forever. It was required after the withdrawal of grants by the Government of Madras, which took offense to the faculty and students participating in the Home Rule Movement led by Annie Besant,” says Prof. “The original document on which Jana Gana Mana was written was conserved at the college for several years, before it was sold to an American art collector for a fabulous, but the undisclosed price. He had then increased the tempo and molded it on the lines of the French national song La Marseilles,”. Murrill who was an English musician, composer, and organist had felt it was a bit slow. On January 24, 1950, just two days before India became a republic, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had asked musician Herbert Murrill to give his views on the tune.
Interestingly it was not the national anthem for the independence day celebration before 1950. She had worked hard to analyze the meaning of each line and composed the musical notes, which Tagore had then happily approved. It became a song after the principal’s wife Margaret Cousins gave it a tune. Till then, ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was just a lyric. Cousins, then principal of Besant Theosophical College. Then just an ordinary town, Madanapalle got an everlasting place in history as Tagore chose to stay with Irish poet James H. Oblivious to many Indians, Madanapalle, a sleepy and serene town in the Chittoor district of the Rayalaseema region, enjoys the rare distinction of contributing some of the firsts to the Indian national movement. But, not many know that it was translated into English as ‘Morning Song of India’ and given a tune on February 28, 1919, during Tagore’s brief stay at Madanapalle. Most people know that it was the polymath Rabindranath Tagore who authored the poem in 1911. It only needs a couple of notes from the music to trigger goosebumps and invoke a sense of pride, while an Indian stands up for the 52 seconds of ‘Jana Gana Mana’, the national anthem of India.
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