10 Facts About Vande Mataram

Root of the Sanskrit word Vande Mataram is Vand, which appears in Rigveda and other Vedic texts.

The word Vande Mataram has Indo-European roots in matar-, meter (Greek), mater (Latin) which mean "mother".

Vande Mataram has inspired many Indian poets and has been translated into numerous Indian languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi Urdu and others.

Vande Mataram wrote Vande Mataram at Chinsur, there is a white colour house of Adhya Family near river Hooghly (near Mallik Ghat).

Book titled Kranti Geetanjali published by Arya Printing Press and Bharatiya Press (Dehradun) in 1929 contains first two stanzas of this lyric on page 11 as Matra Vandana and a ghazal (Vande Mataram) composed by Bismil was given on its back, i e page 12.

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Vande Mataram reminded everyone present that Vande-mataram was being sung since the inception of the Congress.

Vande Mataram supported the "Jai Hind" greeting, but remanded that this greeting should not be to the exclusion of Vande Mataram.

Gandhi was concerned that those who discarded Vande Mataram given the tradition of sacrifice behind it, one day would discard "Jai Hind".

Parts of the Vande Mataram was chosen as the national song in 1937 by the Indian National Congress as it pursued the independence of India from colonial rule, after a committee consisting of Maulana Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Bose, Acharya Deva and Rabrindanath Tagore recommended the adoption.

In July 2017, the Madras High Court ruled that the Vande Mataram shall be sung or played at least once a week in all schools, universities and other educational institutions of Tamil Nadu.