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01 Sep 06
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The discussions in the Congress in 1937 about the status of the song turned around the way what begins in the first two stanzas with an unexceptionable evocation of the beauty of the motherland then collapses the country into Durga.
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Muslims have objections to the deification of any entity except Allah, but what has vastly enhanced the problem is the way that the song ultimately becomes an evocation of a particular Hindu divinity.
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Vande Mataram was certainly often used as a slogan or song in the freedom struggle.
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I spent 10 years of my life researching nationalism in Bengal during 1903-08,
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The surprising thing is that nothing relevant to the song happened on September 7, 1906 (or 1905).
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The Benaras session of December 1905 did hear the song -
Vande Mataram was written in 1875, and published for the first time as part of Bankimchandra's novel Ananda Math in 1882.
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There is something mysterious about the current furore around the compulsory singing of Vande Mataram in schools.
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