harbans bhalla wrote the poem saare jahan se achha.
harbans bhalla wrote the poem saare jahan se achha.
who wrote the poem saare jahan se achha?
harbans bhalla
"sare jahan se accha" (urdu:; ), formally known as (urdu:; "anthem of the people of hindustan"), is an urdu language patriotic song for children written by poet muhammad iqbal in the ghazal style of urdu poetry. the poem was published in the weekly journal "ittehad" on 16 august 1904. publicly recited by iqbal the following year at government college, lahore, british india (now in pakistan) it quickly became an anthem of opposition to the british raj. the song, an ode to hindustan—the land comprising present-day bangladesh, india and pakistan, was later published in 1924 in the urdu book bang-i-dara.
sare jahan se accha
section::::iqbal's transformation and tarana-e-milli.









































in 1910, iqbal wrote another song for children, "tarana-e-milli" (anthem of the religious community), which was composed in the same metre and rhyme scheme as "saare jahan se achcha", but which renounced much of the sentiment of the earlier song. the sixth stanza of "saare jahan se achcha" (1904), which is often quoted as proof of iqbal's secular outlook:









































contrasted significantly with the first stanza of "tarana-e-milli" (1910) reads:
sare jahan se accha