What is The National Song of India?

The National Song of India

The song Vande Mataram was composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji in 1870. He wrote this song using words from both languages, Sanskrit and Bengali. It has an equal status with Jana-gana-mana. Rabindranath Tagore first sang the poem in the 1896 session o the Indian National Congress. On 24 January, 1950, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted "Vande Mataram" as a national song. It gave lots of inspiration to the people during the Indian independence movement. It was used to enhance nationalistic fervour and was shouted as a slogan during the independence movement. The song was a part of Bankim Chandra's most famous novel Anand Math (1882). The two stanzas of the original version of Vande Mataram have been adopted as the "National Song of India'':

“Vande mataram sujalam suphalam malayajasitalam sasya syamalam mataram vande mataram”

“Subhra jyotsna pulakita yaminim phulla kusumita drumadalasobhinim suhasinim sumadhura bhasinim sukhadam varadam mataram Vande Mataram ''. 'Vande Mataram' was written on the first version of the Indian Flag created by Madam Bhikhaji Cama in 1907. Sri Aurobindo Ghose translated Vande Mataram into prose on 20 November 1909. The song was taken from the novel 'Anand Math' written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, which conveyed the Sanyasi's revolt against the Britishers in Bengal.