Question

Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the poem 'Vande Mataram' in 1875?
1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Bhagat Singh

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

The correct answer is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

• Vande Mataram is a Sanskrit poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
  • It was taken from Anand Math published in 1882.
  • Vande Mataram was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in 1896.
  • It was adopted by the constituent assembly on 24th January 1950.
  • Jadhunath Bhattacharya composed the music of Vande Mataram.

• Bipin Chandra Pal was one of the influencers of the Swadeshi movement along with Sri Aurobindo. 
  • He vehemently opposed the partition of Bengal by the British colonial government in December 1903.
  • He was born in Habiganj on 7 Nov 1958 and completed his studies at the University of Calcutta.
• Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, and painter.
  • He was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
  • He is the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Rabindranath Tagore got the Nobel Prize for his work Gitanjali.
• Bhagat Singh was an Indian communist revolutionary whose two acts of spectacular brutality against the British in India and execution at the age of 23 made him a famous hero of the Indian independence movement.