Q. Who wrote the song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindoostan Hamara' ?
Answer: Mohammad Iqbal
Notes: 'Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindoostan Hamara' or "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.

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