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
Author: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Original languages: Bengali and Sanskrit
Adopted: 24 January 1950
Lyrics: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Anandamath (1882)
Music: Jadunath Bhattacharya (original); Hemanta Mukherjee (film version)