{"id":61124,"date":"2025-12-09T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=61124"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:13:57","slug":"150-years-vande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/09-12-2025\/150-years-vande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"150 Years of Vande Mataram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/ Modern History&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its national song, Vande Mataram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Historical Background<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vande Mataram was composed by <strong>Bankim Chandra Chatterjee<\/strong> in Sanskrit and first appeared in the novel <strong>Anandamath&nbsp; in 1882.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anandamath is set against the backdrop of the 1769\u201373 <strong>Bengal famine <\/strong>and the <strong>Sanyasi Rebellion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First sung by <strong>Rabindranath Tagore at the 1<\/strong><strong>896 Indi<\/strong><strong>an National Congress session<\/strong> gave it national exposure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The song celebrates <\/strong>the <strong>motherland <\/strong>as an embodiment of <strong>strength, prosperity, and divinity <\/strong>and provided a poetic voice to India\u2019s awakening national consciousness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rise of National Consciousness<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>During the <strong>Swadeshi Movement of 1905,<\/strong> Vande Mataram emerged as the anthem of civil resistance.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vande Mataram, as a political slogan, was first used on <strong>7 August 1905.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For many young revolutionaries facing execution, Vande Mataram became the <strong>last chant before martyrdom<\/strong>, turning the song into a symbol of sacrifice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>In 1907, Madam Bhikaji Cama<\/strong> raised the tricolour flag for the first-time outside India in Stuttgart, Berlin. The words Vande Mataram were written on the flag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In October 1905, a <strong>Bande Mataram Sampradaya<\/strong> was founded in North Calcutta to promote the idea of the Motherland as a mission and a religious passion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1906, an English daily titled <strong>Bande Mataram <\/strong>was launched under the editorship of <strong>Bipin Chandra Pal, <\/strong>with Aurobindo later joining as joint editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National Song<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After independence, the Constituent Assembly deliberated on the status of Vande Mataram.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On 24 January 1950<\/strong>, the first two stanzas were adopted as <strong>India\u2019s National Song.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d8d5c5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d8d5c5;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-6.51.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-61152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-6.51.53-PM.png 468w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-6.51.53-PM-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the architects of modern Indian literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a distinguished novelist, poet, and essayist, his contributions significantly influenced the development of modern Bengali prose and the articulation of an emerging Indian nationalism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other works: <\/strong>Durgeshanandini (1865), Kapalkundala (1866), and Devi Chaudhurani (1884).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-history\/how-bankim-imagined-nation-as-motherland-in-ananda-math-10410140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its national song, Vande Mataram.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Historical Background<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Vande Mataram was composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in Sanskrit and first appeared in the novel Anandamath\u00a0 in 1882.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Anandamath is set against the backdrop of the 1769\u201373 Bengal famine and the Sanyasi Rebellion.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">First sung by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 Indian National Congress session gave it national exposure.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The song celebrates the motherland as an embodiment of strength, prosperity, and divinity and provided a poetic voice to India\u2019s awakening national consciousness.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/09-12-2025\/150-years-vande-mataram\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61468,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61124\/revisions\/61468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}