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Vande Mataram

Vande Mataram

Poem by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Vande Mataram is a poem written in Sanskrit and Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. The poem was first... Wikipedia
Originally published: 1882
Original languages: Bengali and Sanskrit
Adopted: 24 January 1950
Music: Jadunath Bhattacharya (original); Hemanta Mukherjee (film version)