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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- Rabindra Sangeet is the corpus of roughly 2,230 songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore, fusing Indian classical, folk, and Western musical idioms with his own lyrics.
- How many songs constitute Rabindra Sangeet, and where are they catalogued?
- Why is Tagore unique among national-anthem authors?
- What happened to the copyright on Rabindra Sangeet?
- How does Rabindra Sangeet differ from Nazrul Geeti?

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1. 31 December 2001

   Copyright in the songs, originally vested in Visva-Bharati University—the institution Tagore founded at Santiniketan in 1921—was strictly enforced as a defin…

2. 24 January 1950

   Jana Gana Mana, adopted as India's national anthem by the Constituent Assembly on , is the first stanza of a five-stanza Brahmo hymn Tagore wrote in 1911 and…

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In 2011 the Government of India, through a national committee chaired by the Prime Minister, marked Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary with year-long Rabindra Sangeet programmes in India and Bangladesh.

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