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Jana Gana Mana, our National Anthem, was sung for the first time in

  1. 1947

  2. 1950

  3. 1906

  4. 1911
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Explanation

Jana Gana Mana, composed by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, was first sung publicly on December 27, 1911, at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. It was adopted as India's National Anthem on January 24, 1950, by the Constituent Assembly. The song originally written in Bengali takes approximately 52 seconds to sing.

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