Vande Mataram, the National Song of India, first appeared in which novel?
- A.Gora
- B.Anandamath
- C.Durgeshnandini
- D.Godan
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Anandamath. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed Vande Mataram in Sanskritised Bengali and later placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882, where the ascetic rebels sing it. The song was first sung at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress, and in January 1950 it was given a status equal to that of the National Anthem.
Option A, Gora, is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore and is offered because Tagore wrote the anthem. Option C, Durgeshnandini, is indeed by Bankim Chandra and is his first Bengali novel, which makes it the strongest distractor, but it does not carry the song. Option D, Godan, is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand about a peasant and is unrelated to this topic.
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