about p-32
@Govindaswamy
Likely Sir, though Tagore refuted hotly and the wording does not explicitly mention the emperor.
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Though Vande Maatharam of Bankim and Dhano Dhanya pushpavaraan' of DL Roy ( both rendered by Smt.MS and D.K.Roy) would have been better choice for our National anthem.
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Here are some quotes from wiki.
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The years are very significant. The high-tide of revolutionary upsurge against the Partition of Bengal by Curzon, ( begun in 1905) and the swadesi movement ( led by Anushilan Samithi, Juganthar Samith, Aurbindo Ghosh, Lokamanya and in Taminadu by VOChithambaram Pilai and Subramanya Bharathi), had ebbed due to brutal suppression by the British Government. .
And Tagore is not known to have played any prominent role in that revolutionary movement and the Congress itself was full of moderates- even after the historic split in Surath Congress in 1908.
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Translation by Tagore, dated 28 February 1919 at the Besant Theosophical College.[25]
Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
Dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindhu,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Odisha
and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of Vindhya and the
Himalayas,
Mingles in the music of Ganga and Yamuna
and is chanted by
The waves of the Indian sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
Thou dispenser of India's destiny.
Victory, victory, victory to thee.[26]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana_Gana_Mana
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On 10 November 1937, Tagore wrote a letter to Pulin Bihari Sen about the controversy. That letter in Bengali can be found in Tagore's biography Rabindrajibani, volume II page 339 by Prabhatkumar Mukherjee.
"A certain high official in His Majesty's service, who was also my friend, had requested that I write a song of felicitation towards the Emperor. The request simply amazed me. It caused a great stir in my heart. In response to that great mental turmoil, I pronounced the victory in Jana Gana Mana of that Bhagya Bidhata [ed. God of Destiny] of India who has from age after age held steadfast the reins of India's chariot through rise and fall, through the straight path and the curved. That Lord of Destiny, that Reader of the Collective Mind of India, that Perennial Guide, could never be George V, George VI, or any other George. Even my official friend understood this about the song. After all, even if his admiration for the crown was excessive, he was not lacking in simple common sense."[42][43]
Again in his letter of 19 March 1939 Tagore writes:[44]
"I should only insult myself if I cared to answer those who consider me capable of such unbounded stupidity as to sing in praise of George the Fourth or George the Fifth as the Eternal Charioteer leading the pilgrims on their journey through countless ages of the timeless history of mankind." (Purvasa, Phalgun, 1354, p. 738.)
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But his voice and briga carried everything those days, seems like! 
