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Vande Mataram is a poem written in Sanskrit and Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress.
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References
- ↑ "Remembering Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the man who gave us Vande Mataram". India Today. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ↑ Devaleena Das; Colette Morrow (16 January 2018). Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East. Rutgers University Press. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-8135-8786-8.
- ↑ Rabindranath Tagore (24 September 2003). Grain Of Sand. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-81-8475-840-5.
