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Sare Jahan se Accha (Hindi:
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se Acch; formal name: Tarnah-e-Hind or Tarnah-i-Hind (Hindi:
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Anthem of the People of Hindustan
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) Sre Jahn
; Urdu :
"), is one of the enduring patriotic poems of the Urdu
language. Written for children in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry by poet Muhammad Iqbal , the poem was
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published in the weekly journal Ittehad on 16 August 1904.
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Government College, Lahore
[1]
Recited by Iqbal the following year at
, now in Pakistan , it quickly became an anthem of opposition to the British
rule in India. The song, an ode to Hindustan the land comprising present-day
Bangladesh , India , and
Pakistan both celebrated and cherished the land even as it lamented its age-old anguish. As Tarana-eHindi, it was later published in 1924 in the Urdu book Bang-i-Dara .
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The song, in addition to embodying yearning and attachment to the land of Hindustan, expressed "cultural
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memory" and had an elegiac quality. In 1905, the 27-year-old Iqbal viewed the future society of the
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Government College, Lahore
at that time, and was invited by student Lala Har
subcontinent
as both a pluralistic and composite Hindu-Muslim culture. Later that year he left for Europe
for a three-year sojourn that was to transform him into an Islamic philosopher and a visionary of a future
Islamic society.
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1 Iqbal's transformation and Tarana-e-Milli

2 Popularity in India
3 Text
4 English Translation
5 Notes and references
6 See also
7 External links
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Iqbal's transformation and Tarana-e-Milli

In 1910, Iqbal wrote another song for children,
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Tarana-e-Milli (Anthem of the Religious Community),
which was composed in the same metre and rhyme scheme as Saare Jahan Se Achcha, but which
renounced much of the sentiment of the earlier song.[2] The sixth stanza of Saare Jahan Se Achcha
(1904), which is often quoted as proof of Iqbal's secular outlook:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sare_Jahan_se_Accha[6/20/2015 8:44:26 AM]
Mazhab nahn sikht pas men bair rakhn

Hind hain ham, watan hai Hindstn hamr
or,
Religion does not teach us to bear ill-will among ourselves
We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindoostan.

contrasted significantly with the first stanza of
Tarana-e-Milli (1910) reads:[2]
Cn o-Arab hamr, Hindstn hamr

Muslim hain ham, watan hai sr jahn hamr
or,
Central Asia
[3]
and Arabia are ours, Hindoostan is ours
We are Muslims, the whole world is our homeland.
[2]
Iqbal's world view had now changed; it had become both global and Islamic. Instead of singing of India,
"our homeland," the new song proclaimed that "our homeland is the whole world."[4] Two decades later, in
his presidential address to the Muslim League annual conference in
a separate nation-state
of Pakistan
Allahabad in 1930, he was to propose
in the Muslim majority areas of the sub-continent, an idea that inspired the creation
.[5]
Popularity in India
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Saare Jahan Se Achcha has remained popular in India for over a
In spite of its creator's disavowal of it,
century. Mahatma Gandhi is said to have sung it over a hundred times when he was imprisoned at
Yerawada Jail in Pune in the 1930s.
[6]
The poem was set to music in the 1950s by sitarist Ravi Shankar
and recorded by singer Lata Mangeshkar . Stanzas (1), (3), (4), and (6) of the song became an unofficial
national song in India,[1] and were also turned into the official quick march of the Indian Armed Forces.[7]
Rakesh Sharma , the first Indian cosmonaut , employed the first line of the song in 1984 to describe to
then prime minister Indira Gandhi how India appeared from outer space.
Manmohan Singh , quoted the poem at his first press
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[8]
Former prime minister,
conference.[1]
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Urdu
Devanagari
Romanisation (ALA-LC)
Sre jahn se acch,
Hindositn[9]
hamr
Ham bulbulen hain is
k, yih gulsitn[9]
hamr
Ghurbat men hon

agar ham, raht hai
dil watan men
Samjho wuhn hamen
bh dil ho jahn
hamr
Parbat wuh sab se
,
nc, hamsyah
smn k
Wuh santar hamr,
wuh psbn hamr

God men khelt hain
is k hazron
nadiyn
Gulshan hai jin ke
dam se rashk-i jann

hamr
- - -
Ai b-i rd-i Gang!

- -
!
?
jab krwn hamr

Mazhab nahn
sikht pas men

- -
watan hai
Ynn o-Mir o- -
Rm, sab mi ga'e

jahn se
Ab tak magar hai
- -
Hindositn hamr
bair rakhn
Hind hain ham,
tujh ko?
Utr tire[10] kinre
wuh din hain yd
bq, nm o-nishan
- -
hamr
Kuch bt hai kih
hast, mit nahn

hamr
- -
adiyon rah hai

dushman daur-i
zamn hamr
Iqbl! ko' maram

apn nahn jahn
men
Malm ky kis ko
dard-i nihn
hamr!
English Translation
Better than the entire world, is our
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Hindustan ,
We are its nightingales, and it (is) our garden abode

If we are in an alien place, the heart remains in the homeland,
Know us to be only there where our heart is.

That tallest mountain, that shade-sharer of the sky,
It (is) our sentry, it (is) our watchman

In its lap where frolic thousands of rivers,
Whose vitality makes our garden the envy of Paradise.

O the flowing waters of the
Ganges , do you remember that day
When our caravan first disembarked on your waterfront?

Religion does not teach us to bear animosity among ourselves
We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindustan.

In a world in which ancient
Greece , Egypt , and Rome have all vanished without trace
Our own attributes (name and sign) live on today.

Such is our existence that it cannot be erased
Even though, for centuries, the time-cycle of the world has been our enemy.
iqbal! We have no confidant in this world
What does any one know of our hidden pain?
Notes and references
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1. ^ a b c Pritchett, Frances. 2000. "Tarana-e-Hindi and Taranah-e-Milli: A Study in Contrasts."

Columbia University Department of South Asian Studies.
2. ^ a b c Iqbal: Tarana-e-Milli, 1910
. Columbia University, Department of South Asian Studies.
3. ^ Although "Chin" refers to China in modern Urdu, in Iqbal's day it referred to Central Asia,
coextensive with historical Turkestan. See also, Iqbal: Tarana-e-Milli, 1910
. Columbia
University, Department of South Asian Studies.

4. ^ Pritchett, Frances. 2000. Tarana-e-Hindi and Tarana-e-Milli: A Close Comparison
. Columbia
University Department of South Asian Studies.

5. ^ A look at Iqbal; The Sunday Tribune May 28, 2006
6. ^ Times of India: Saare Jahan Se..., it's 100 now
7. ^ Indian Military Marches
8. ^ India Empowered to Me Is: Saare Jahan Se Achcha, the home of world citizens
9. ^ a b "Here they are to be pronounced not Hindstn and gu-lis-tn, respectively, as usual, but
Hindositn and gul-si-tn, respectively, to suit the meter." From: Pritchett, F. 2004. "Taraanah-iHindii"
Columbia University, Department of South Asian Studies.
10. ^ Pronounced "tiray" to suit the meter, in contrast to the usual "tayray." From: From: Pritchett, F.
2004. "Taraanah-i-Hindii"
See also
Columbia University, Department of South Asian Studies.
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Iqbal bibliography
Amar Shonar Bangla
Jana Gana Mana
Vande Mataram
Qaumi Tarana
National Pledge (India)
"Best Indian Poems"
External links
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Geet Ganga: Audio Version of Sare Jahan Se Acha
Available for Download
Music India Online: Saare Jahan Se Achcha

Raaga: Patriotic Songs Vol. 6 (2003) Sare Jahan Se Achcha (Instrumental)
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