INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MODERN INDIA

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Who is the author of Vande Mataram?
A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Rabindranath Tagore
C
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
D
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It is a poem written in Sanskrit by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his Bengali novel Anandamath. It later was made the National Song of our country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote the national song Vande Mataram. It is a poem written in Sanskrit by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his Bengali novel Anandamath.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -…in every direction, and “Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”) became the Congress’s national anthem, its words taken from Anandamath, a popular Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and its music composed by Bengal’s greatest poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941).

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