GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882 wrote a novel Anandamath and introduced the hymn “Vande Mātaram", which soon became the song of the emerging freedom movement in India. Click here to listen to a snippet of the hymn Vande Mataram by Sandhya (15 Aug 2020).

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1870s, an Indian poet named Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the famous ‘Vande Matara’-a hymn to the motherland. In this hymn, he personified India as a mother goddess. He later included the hymn in his novel “Anandamath".

Detailed explanation-3: -Vande Maataram is a poem written in Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya in 1870s, which he included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath. The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.

Detailed explanation-4: -The swadeshi movement, in reaction to the partition of Bengal by Viceroy Lord Curzon adopted as its theme song Vande Mataram.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. He is famous as author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born on June 27, 1838 in the village Kantalpara of the 24 Paraganas District of Bengal.