SSC CPO 2019 PYQ — Question 100

SSC CPO Tier I - 13th December 2019 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q100

'Amar Sonar Bangla’, the national anthem of Bangladesh was composed by ______.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct option is option 1 i.e. Rabindranath Tagore.

Amar Sonar Bangla It was written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 during the Swadeshi Movement in India.
Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. 
  He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with contextual modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."