Global InformationSubh Sukh Chain information
| English: Auspicious Happiness | |
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National anthem of the Provisional Government of Free India | |
| Lyrics | Capt. Abid Ali, Mumtaz Hussain, 1943 |
| Music | Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri |
| Adopted | 1943 |
| Relinquished | 18 August 1945 |
Subh Sukh Chain (Hindi: शुभ सुख चैन, lit. '"Auspicious Happiness"') was the national anthem of the Provisional Government of Free India.
The song was based on a Bengali poem Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata by Rabindranath Tagore. When Subhash Chandra Bose shifted to Southeast Asia from Germany in 1943, he, with the help of Mumtaz Hussain, a writer with the Azad Hind Radio, and Colonel Abid Hasan Safrani of the INA, rewrote Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana into the Hindustani Subh Sukh Chain for use as the national anthem.[1] Bose then went to what was then the INA broadcasting station at the Cathay Building in Singapore and asked Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri[2] to compose the music for a song translated from Rabindranath Tagore's original Bengali score. He asked him to give the song a martial tune.
India attained independence on 15 August 1947, and the next morning Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort and addressed the nation. It was on this occasion that Captain Thakuri was invited to play the tune of Subh Sukh Chain along with the members of his orchestra group.[3]
- ^ "The Morning Song of India". wordpress.com. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
- ^ "Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri's interview". Rediff on NET.
- ^ "A tribute to the legendary composer of National Anthem", The Tribune, 4 May 2002, retrieved 10 November 2008,
Snippet: ... Capt Ram Singh would be remembered for his composition of Jana Gana Mana, the original script of which was a little different. It was Sukh Chain Kee Barkha Barse, Bharat Bagiya Hai Jaga. ...