Indian National Song "Vande Mataram" is written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and taken from his famous book Anandamath written in 1882. It was composed by Jadunath Bhattacharya and adopted as national song on 24 January 1950.
It first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.