It is generally believed that the concept of Vande Mataram came to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay when he was still a government official, around 1876. Around the same time, the administration was trying to promote ' God Save the Queen' as the anthem for Indian subjects, which Indian nationalists disliked. Chattopadhyay was very intereste in recent events in Indian and Bengali history, particularly the Revolt of 1857 and the previous century's Sanyasi Rebellion. After his BA, he joined the colonial government as a civil servant, becoming a Deputy Collector and later a Deputy Magistrate. а¤¤а¤ёаҐЌа¤ІаҐЂа¤®а¤ѕа¤¤, а¤®а¤ѕа¤Ѓ а¤¤а¤ёаҐЌа¤ІаҐЂа¤®а¤ѕа¤¤ History and significance Composition Д«ankim Chandra Chatterjee was one of the earliest graduates of the newly established Calcutta University. Thou art Goddess Kamala ( Lakshmi), lotus-throned,ДЄnd Goddess Vani ( Saraswati), bestower of wisdom known With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, With many strengths who art mighty and strong, When the swords flash out in seventy million hands, Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands, The first two verses of Vande Mataram adopted as the 'National Song' read as follows: The word MДЃtaram has Indo-European roots in mДЃtГЎr- (Sanskrit), mГ©ter (Greek), mГўter (Latin) which mean 'mother'. According to Monier Monier-Williams, depending on the context, vand means 'to praise, celebrate, laud, extol, to show honour, do homage, salute respectfully', or 'deferentially, venerate, worship, adore', or 'to offer anything respectfully to'. The root of the Sanskrit word Vande is Vand, which appears in Rigveda and other Vedic texts. 4.3 Debate on adoption as national song of India.There are 65 seconds of circumstantial specification for the rendition of this song unlike the national anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' that specifies 52 seconds. The first two verses of the song are an abstract reference to mother and motherland, they do not mention any Hindu deity by name, unlike later verses that do mention goddesses such as Durga. However the Constitution of India does not have any mention of 'national song'. On the occasion, the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad stated that the song should be honoured equally with the national anthem of India, ' Jana Gana Mana'. On 24 January 1950, the Constituent Assembly of India has adopted 'Vande Mataram' as national song. The song and the novel containing it was banned by the colonial government, but workers and the general public defied the ban (with many being imprisoned repeatedly for singing it in public) with the ban being overturned by the Indian government after the country gained independence from colonial rule in 1947. Spiritual Indian nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo referred it as 'National Anthem of Bengal'. It became a popular marching song for political activism and Indian freedom movement in 1905. It played a vital role in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.

The 'mother goddess' in later verses of the song has been interpreted as the motherland of the people вЂ“вЂ“ Banga Mata (Mother Bengal) and Bharat Mata (Mother India), though the text does not mention this explicitly. The title 'Vande Mataram' means 'I praise to motherland, Mother'. ДЄn ode to the Motherland, it was written in Bengali script in the novel Anandmath.

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. The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. Mother, I bow to thee) is a poem written in Bengali (with some Sanskrit words as well) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya in 1870s, which he included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath.

Vande Maataram ( IAST: Vande MДЃtaram, also pronounced Bande Maataram а¦¬а¦Ёа§Ќа¦¦а§‡ а¦®а¦ѕа¦¤а¦°а¦®а§Ќ- BГґnde MДЃtГґrГґm transl.

Indian national song