Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauz) has been an important chapter in Indian independence struggle. Even today, the INA continues to be an emotive and celebrated subject of discussion.
After Subhas Chandra Bose shifted to Southeast Asia from Germany to Southeast Asia in 1943 in 1943, he with the help of Mumtaz Hussain, a writer with the Azad Hind Radio and Colonel Abid Hassan Saffrani of the INA, had rewritten Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana into Hindustani Subh Sukh Chain for being used as the national anthem of Provisional Government of Free India.
Bose then went to what was then the INA broadcasting station at the Cathay Building in Singapore and asked Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri 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. When India got independence on 15th August 1947, Captain Thakuri was invited to play this song with orchestra at the Red Fort, Delhi.
Following are the lyrics of that amazing song:
शुभ सुख चैन की बरखा बरसे , भारत भाग है जागा
पंजाब, सिन्ध, गुजरात, मराठा, द्राविड़ उत्कल बंगा
चंचल सागर, विन्ध्य, हिमालय, नीला जमुना गंगा
तेरे नित गुण गाएँ, तुझसे जीवन पाएँ
हर तन पाए आशा।
सूरज बन कर जग पर चमके, भारत नाम सुभागा,
जए हो! जए हो! जए हो! जए जए जए जए हो!॥
सब के दिल में प्रीत बसाए, तेरी मीठी बाणी
हर सूबे के रहने वाले, हर मज़हब के प्राणी
सब भेद और फ़र्क मिटा के, सब गोद में तेरी आके,
गूँथें प्रेम की माला।
सूरज बन कर जग पर चमके, भारत नाम सुभागा,
जए हो! जए हो! जए हो! जए जए जए जए हो!॥
शुभ सवेरे पंख पखेरे, तेरे ही गुण गाएँ,
बास भरी भरपूर हवाएँ, जीवन में रूत लाएँ,
सब मिल कर हिन्द पुकारे, जय आज़ाद हिन्द के नारे।
प्यारा देश हमारा।
सूरज बन कर जग पर चमके, भारत नाम सुभागा,
जए हो! जए हो! जए हो! जए जए जए जए हो!॥
In addition, attached is the link of this song on YouTube created by Atul Merchant ‘Jataayu’.
Songs like this and ‘Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja’ are sung with fervour on Independence Day and Republic Days. Apart from that, the slogs like “Tum mujhe khun do, Mein tumhe Azadi Dunga” and “Chalo Dilli” have also made lasting impressions in minds of Indians.
Unfortunately, official histories of the independence movement largely omitted events surrounding the INA – especially the Red Fort trials and the Bombay Mutiny and ignored their significance in rejuvenating the independence movement and guiding British decisions to relinquish the Raj. Further criticisms have been made in recent years over the denial till 1980s of the “freedom fighter’s pension” awarded to those in the Gandhian movement and over the general hardships and apathy surrounding the conditions of former INA soldiers.
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