Who wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ in the book ‘Anand Math’?

Who wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ in the book ‘Anand Math’? Correct Answer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee:

• He was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India.
• He was born on 27th June 1838 in the village of Kanthapura in the town of North 24 Parganas, Naihati, present day West Bengal.
• He composed the song Vande Mataram in Sanskrit, which was a source of inspiration to the people in their freedom struggle.
• His epic Novel Anandamath - set in the background of the Sanyasi Rebellion (1770-1820), when Bengal was facing a famine too - made Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay an influential figure on the Bengali renaissance.
• He kept the people of Bengal intellectually stimulated through his literary campaign.
• India got its national song, Vande Mataram, from Anandamath.

Hence, we conclude that Vande Mataram was written by Bamkim Chandra Chatterjee.

Additional Information

• Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee was an Indian barrister. He was the co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress. Born on 1844 at Calcutta he studied at the Oriental Seminary and the Hindu School.
• Vipin Chandra Pal was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and Indian independence movement freedom fighter. He was one third of the “Lal Bal Pal” triumvirate. Pal was one of the main architects of the Swadeshi movement along with Sri Aurobindo.
• Ravindra Nath Tagore was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.