Vande Mataram was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1875 to praise "Mother India" while he was serving as district collector, it was published in Bangla fiction novel "Anandamath" in 1882. It was adopted as our national song by our constituent assembly on 24th January 1950
There is not a provision for our national song in our constitution, So it is not the national ideal covered under Part IVA 51A(a), however it was equally honoured with national anthem
Some interesting facts about our national song
It was originally written in Sanskrit and Bangla langauage
Jadunath Bhattacharya was the first to compose the song, it was later re-composed by AR Rahman, Lata Mangeshwar and Ravi Shankar
It was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore during INC Session 1896 in Calcutta
In original song there were six stanzas but first two stanzas were officially adopted as national song
During BBC Poll in 2002, it was chosen as second most popular song in the world
English version was translated by Aurobindo bosh
Legal provisions regarding our national song
Madras High Court Judgement, 2017
Supreme Court Judgement, 2017
We are Indians firstly and lastly - BR Ambedkar
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