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Vande Mataram At 150: The Song Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Hid Inside a Bengali Novel

Times Now · WorldNews · 2026-08-17

Vande Mataram At 150: The Song Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Hid Inside a Bengali Novel

The song that became India's battle cry was first sung by fictional rebels, buried inside a Bengali novel. A hundred and fifty years of Vande Mataram, and the fault line within it. Vande Mataram began as a lyric hidden inside Bankim Chandra's 1882 novel 'Anandamath'. How it escaped fiction to help free a nation, at 150., Books, Times Now Vande Mataram At 150: The Song Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Hid Inside a Bengali Novel

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