Approximation of the regions mentioned in our National Anthem.
In the original Bengali poem - Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata by Rabindranath Tagore from which our national anthem was derived, only those provinces were mentioned which were under British rule, i.e. Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha.
Those princely states (Kashmir, Rajasthan, Andhra, Mysore, or Kerala) were ruled by the Portuguese not mentioned in the anthem.
While the poem was written by Tagore in 1911, it was adopted as our national anthem in 1950. There isn't a direct one to one relation between the literary terms and contemporary regions, but with some approximation, we can establish a decent mapping.
Another interesting fact is that there exists another derivative of the poem in Hindi called Shubh Sukh Chain which was the national anthem of the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) formed by Subhash Chandra Bose adopted in 1943.
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