150 Years of Vande Mataram

The Prime Minister inaugurated year-long celebrations marking 150 years of Vande Mataram on 7th November 2025.

  • The national song “Vande Mataram” composed by Bankimchandra Chatterji, is believed to have been written on Akshaya Navami on 7th November 1875.
  • Vande Mataram first appeared in the literary journal Bangadarshan as part of his novel Anandamath.
  • The song was first sung at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta by Rabindranath Tagore.
  • Vande Mataram, as a political slogan, was first used on 7 August 1905.
  • In 1907, Madam Bhikaji Cama raised the tricolour flag for the first-time outside India in ....
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