Bankim chandra chatterjee vande mataram meaning

National song of India

This article is about the poem and song.

Bankim chandra chatterjee vande mataram meaning

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Vande Mātaram (Devanagari: वंदे मातरम् Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম্‌ Bônde Mātôrôm; transl. I praise you, Motherland) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali^[1][2] by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s.^[3][4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress.^[5][6][7]

The poem was first published in 1882 as part of Chatterjee's Bengali novelAnandmath.^[8] It is an ode to the motherland, personified as the "mother goddess" in later verses, of the people.

This initially referred to Bengal, with the "mother" figure therefore being Banga Mata (Mother Bengal), though the text does not mention this explicitly.^[9]