Question

Who composed the national song of India “Vande Mataram”?
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
3. Bhai Vir Singh
4. Amrita Kaur Pritam

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

The correct answer is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee -
  • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born on 27 June 1838 in a Brahmin family in Kanthalpara village in Bengal.
  • Vande Mataram is composed in a mixed language (Sanskrit-Bengali) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
  • This song was published in the year 1872 as an underlying song in his novel Anand Math.
  • In this novel, this song is sung by a monk named "Bhawanand".
  • Its tune was composed by Yadunath Bhattacharya. This song takes 65 seconds to sing.​

• Rabindranath Tagore -
  • He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj.
  • He became the first Asian to become a Nobel laureate.
  • He won the Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. 
  • He was known as the name 'Gurudev'.​
• Bhai Vir Singh -
  • He was a great poet and scholar, born in Amritsar on December 5, 1872. 
  • He played an important role in the movement to revive the Punjabi literary tradition.​
• Amrita Kaur Pritam -
  • ​She was born on 31 August 1919, in Gujranwala, Punjab.
  • She was the leading 20^th-century poet of the Punjabi language.
  • Considered the first prominent female Punjabi poet, novelist, essayist.​