Explanation

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the national song 'Vande Mataram', which was a part of his novel Anandamath (1882).
• It is a political novel depicting a Sanyasi army fighting the British soldiers.
• The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
• On 24 January 1950, the Constituent Assembly of India has adopted "Vande Mataram" as a national song.