Question

Who composed Vande Mataram?

Answer 1

Vande Mataram is a Bengali poem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the 1870s and was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore. Vande Mataram is considered as the National Song of India. The poem was then included in the 1881 novel Anandamath by BC Chattopadhyay. This poem became a popular marching song for political activism and the Swadeshi movement in 1905.

Facts of Vande Mataram

• The National song of India, Vande Mataram is regarded as the foundation of encouragement to the people in their struggle for freedom.
• The National song of India is versed in two languages that is Sanskrit and Bengali languages by Bankim Chandra Chatterji.
• The former President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, on January 24, 1950, came up with a declaration in the Constituent Assembly that the song Vande Mataram, that played a tremendous role in the historic freedom struggle held in India, should be honoured equally and respected with Jana Gana Mana and must be given equal status with it.
• The song was a part of Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s most famous novel Anand Math (1882) which is set in the events of Sannyasi rebellion.
• Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, in 1906 did the first translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s novel Anand Math, comprising the poem Vande Mataram, into English.
• 1896 session of the Indian National Congress was the first political event when the National song was sung.
• The national song of India was first sung by the Rabindranath Tagore session in this session.
• Then in Benaras Congress Session in 1905, Poet Sarala Devi Chaudurani sang the national song.
• From Lahore, popular freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai published a journal called Vande Mataram
• In 1905, Vande Mataram was recited in the first political film directed by Hiralal Sen