It played a vital role in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress Written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1870s, which he included in his 1881 novel Anandamath.The first two verses of the song were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by Congress Working Committee prior to the end of colonial rule in August 1947Īn ode to Durga as the Mother goddess, it was written in Bengali script in the novel Anandmath.The 'mother goddess' in later verses of the song has been interpreted as the motherland of the people
