Who wrote the Vande Mataram ?

Who wrote the Vande Mataram ? Correct Answer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

The correct answer is ​Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

Key Points

1. Vande Mataram (IAST: Vande Mātaram, also pronounced Bande Mataram; transl. Mother, I bow to thee) is a Bengali poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s, which he included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath.
2. The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in 1896.
3. The first two verses of the song were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress Working Committee prior to the end of colonial rule in August 1947.
4. An ode to the Motherland, it was written in Bengali script in the novel Anandmath.
5. The title 'Vande Mataram' means "I bow to thee, Mother" or "I bow to thee, Mother".
6.  The "mother goddess" in later verses of the song has been interpreted as the motherland of the people –– Banga Mata (Mother Bengal) and Bharat Mata (Mother India), though the text does not mention this explicitly.
7. It played a vital role in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
8. It became a popular marching song for political activism and the Indian freedom movement in 1905.
9. Spiritual Indian nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo referred to it as "National Anthem of Bengal".
10. The song and the novel containing it was banned by the colonial government, but workers and the general public defied the ban (with many being imprisoned repeatedly for singing it in public); with the ban being overturned by the Indian government after the country gained independence from colonial rule in 1947.

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