• • • Bande Mataram (: Vande Mātaram) is a poem written by in 1870s, which he included in his 1881 novel. The poem was composed into song. The first two verses of the song were adopted as the National Song of in October 1937 by Congress Working Committee prior to the end of colonial rule in August 1947. Omsi Iso. An to as the, it was written in in the novel Anandmath. The title 'Vande Mataram' means 'I praise thee, Mother' or 'I praise to thee, Mother'.

The 'mother goddess' in later verses of the song has been interpreted as the motherland of the people - (Mother Bengal) and (Mother India), though the text does not mention this explicitly. It played a vital role in the, first sung in a political context by at the 1896 session of the. It became a popular marching song for political activism and Indian freedom movement in 1905. Spiritual Indian nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo referred it as 'National Anthem of '.

The song and the novel containing it was banned by the British government, but workers and general public defied the ban, many went to colonial prisons repeatedly for singing it, and the ban was overturned by the Indians after they gained independence from the colonial rule. In 1950 (after India's independence), the first two verses of the song were declared the 'national song' of the, distinct from the national anthem of India,.

The first two verses of the song are an abstract reference to mother and motherland, they do not mention any Hindu deity by name, unlike later verses that do explicitly mention goddesses such as Durga. There is no time limit or circumstantial specification for the rendition of this song [unlike the national anthem that specifies 52 seconds]. Mother, I praise thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet!

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Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I praise thee. [Verse 1] Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands When the swords flash out in seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord!

Thou who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free.

[Verse 2] Thou art wisdom, thou art, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Thou art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nerves the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine In our temples is but thine. [Verse 3] Thou art, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fair [Verse 4] In thy soul, with bejeweled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Loveliest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine!

Mother sweet, I praise thee, Mother great and free! The flag raised by in 1907 ' Vande Mataram ' was the whole nation's thought and motto for independence [from British rule] during the. Large rallies, fermenting initially in, in the major metropolis of, would work themselves up into a patriotic fervour by shouting the slogan 'Vande Mataram', or 'I praise the Mother(land)! Kro Renewal Client Download here. ' The British, fearful of the potential danger of an incited Indian populace, banned the book and made the recital of the song a crime.

The British colonial government imprisoned many for disobeying the order, but workers and general public repeatedly violated the ban many times by gathering together before British officials and singing it. Rabindranath Tagore sang Vande Mataram in 1896 at the Congress Session held at Beadon Square.

Dakhina Charan Sen sang it five years later in 1901 at another session of the Congress. Poet Sarala Devi Chaudurani sang the song in the Congress Session in 1905. Started a journal called Vande Mataram from. Made India's first political film in 1905 which ended with the chant. 's last words as she was shot to death by the were Vande Mataram. Mahatma Gandhi supported the first two verses of Vande Mataram as a national song. In 1907, (1861–1936) created the first version of India's national flag (the ) in, Germany, in 1907.