Question

Brief note on vande mataram movement

Answer 1

Bande Mataram (IAST: Vande Mātaram) (English Translation: Mother, I bow to thee) is a Bengali poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1870s, which he included in his 1881 novel Anandamath. The poem was composed into song by Rabindranath Tagore. 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.

Vande MataramEnglish: Vande Mātaramवन्दे मातरम् (Sanskrit and official pronunciation)
বন্দে মাতরম্ (Bengali pronunciation)LyricsBankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Anandamath (1882)MusicHemant Kumar, Jadunath BhattacharyaAdopted24 January 1950