When was vande matram written

The original Vande Mataram comprises of 6 stanzas. It was translated in prose by Shri Aurobindo in Karmayogin on 20 November Important Days and Dates in January Are you worried or stressed? Click here for Expert Advice. Comment 0. Post Comment. He penned the Indian national song way before he authored Anandamath — a political novel which depicts a Sanyasi army standing up to the East India Company. He founded Bangadarshan — a monthly Bengali literary magazine — in April Durgeshnandini and Kapalkundala were his first two novels which were well-acclaimed and translated into other languages.

He retired as a civil servant in The novel Bishabriksha The Poison Tree, was his first work to be published serially in Bangadarshan. His popular novel Krishnakanter Will - first published in - has an eponymous film adaptation in Bengali. Two more recordings from the years and are available. Narayan Chandra Mukherjee sings it in a high pitch, in a style that seems to combine the slow waltz with the more vigorous tappa, a north Indian light classical form.

They are accompanied by a harmonium. Satyabhushan Gupta sings the poem in the same raga and tune, but the style is akin to that of a lullaby and the accompaniment is a clarinet. The song was often sung and recited at public functions and literary meetings in Kolkata and was also included in some dramas. During protests against the partition of Bengal, which the British effected in for both administrative and political reasons, Vande Mataram became an inspiring song for many Indian revolutionaries.

Soon, it became a protest song in India's long struggle for independence. But some Muslims found the song objectionable because they felt worshipping a mother was a polytheistic practice and more generally because they found the poem's other cultural impulses to be Hindu. For several years until , Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, the great Hindustani classical singer, used to sing it in Raga Kafi at the Congress's annual convention.

He would sing all the stanzas with instrumental accompaniment and all the members of Congress would stand at attention for several minutes. Thus, it became the Congress party's anthem. On one occasion, Paluskar was travelling and was not sure whether he would reach the venue of the Congress convention in south India in time to sing. He had someone get in touch with Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, who had a concert in a nearby city, to request him to sing the song.