India described in Vandemataram and Jana Gana Mana
Vandemataram
Vandemataram is a song which was originally written in Bengali and Sanskrit language and is composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay . The song was extracted from the book “Anandmath” which is written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. The song played an important role in getting the independence of India. The word Vande Mataram means “ I bow to Mother India”.The poem consists of 6 stanzas but mostly it’s first stanza is being sung by all the people at present.
Each line in vandemataram describes about the varied culture of India like it describes that the mother land is rich by resources and rich in nature. The poem describes in short that how India is and gives vivid description about it. It also describes about the blossoming tree and the nature around.It arouses the feeling towards one’s country. The word Vande—means worship while Mataram—means mother,which means I worship my mother i.e India. Here in the poem the mother is one which gives pure and sweet water (Sujalaam). While the mother land also gives green vegetation and it describes about a mountain around which sandal tree are found. In the poem it is also described that the motherland provide us a large land and trees. The poem also describes about the trees which are expanded and decorated by the flowers and also for medical purpose (kusumita). By the agriculture we get crops which are required to live upon is also described in the poem(shasya).The song also describes about India that we enjoy our night with shining moon and stars around. The poem also describes about the art of the people in India. And also tells that the people are full of wisdom an their love towards the their country is very much. It tells about the various passion towards the land and also the people.
Vande mataram was the slogan for freedom during the various freedom movements in the struggle against the britishers. The internal core of the song Vandemataram is basically a hymn to Goddess Durga. Although many people of different caste had protested over it but finally it was accepted by the government. The song has various different tunes including SouthAsians and classical ragas. Vande mataram describes the culture and the religion of India in all. Also the song Vandemataram .
It may be seen that the first two stanzas except for the reference to the country as Mother, the hymn does not contain any symbol or imagery which might affect communal sentiments. However, the next stanza equates the motherland as a goddess to be worshipped in a temple, in fact, evoking Durga, the destroyer of enemies, holding her ten weapons of war. It is pertinent to mention at this stage that in the time of Bankimchandra, Bengal was under the rule of a Mughal Governor and the novel Ananda Math, which is means by the author to launch this hymn, is a story based on the militant revolutionary activities of a group of Hindus in the background of the Sanyasi rebellion. In this view of the matter, the hymn attacked the Muslim rule of the day and, in the larger context, it was a battle cry for a resurgent Hindu India while challenging the British imperialist rule. It is a
hymn to the goddess Durga, identified as the national personification of Bengal. It came to be considered the "National Anthem of Bengal", and it played a part in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian
National Congress. In 1950, its first two verses were given the official status of "national song" of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India “Jana Gana Mana”. Many Muslim organizations in India have protested against singing Vande Mataram, due to the song giving a notion of worshipping Mother India.
History of Vande Mataram appears to be indeed diversified and highly unlikely, when one considers the time when it was written. It generally took ages for such kind of a song or prose or verse to achieve wide acceptance. It is normally believed that the concept of Vande Mataram dawned on Bankim Chandra Chatterjee when he was still serving as a government official under the British Empire. He wrote the song in a great way, making use of words from Sanskrit and Bengali, two
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languages in which he excelled. However, the song was met with intense initial criticism, due to the obscurity in pronunciation of some of the words.Thus by this Vandemataram really brings once pride towards it’s nation.
Jan-Gan-Man
Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India. Initially it was first sung at the meeting of Indian National Congress in 1911 end. The song is written mainly in Bengali and Sanskrit language.
Jana Gana Mana was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honor of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919. To honor their visit Pandit Motilal Nehru had the five stanzas included , which are in praise of the King and Queen.(And most of us think it is in the praise of our great motherland!)
In the original Bengali verses only those provinces like Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha etc. were mentioned. None of the states like Kashmir, Rajasthan, Andhra, Mysore or Kerala were included.
Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included. The Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka implies that King George V is the lord of the masses and Bharata Bhagya Vidhata is ‘the best ower of good fortune’.
The anthem means (Indian) People wake up remembering your good name and ask for your blessings and they sing your glories. People of all religions come around your throne and give their love and anxiously wait to hear your kind words. In the whole poem it describes about all the places of India and also the sacred rivers and mountains . It also describes about the ocean and the high rise waves. But the poem also depicts the people’s respect towards the others and how they respond although they had faced a lot of problems from the british .
This whole poem does not indicate any love for the Motherland but depicts a bleak picture. Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play.It was an absurd reason but Today for that matter bands have advanced and they can very well play any music. So they can as well play Vande Mataram, which is a far better composition in praise of our Dear Motherland India.
Although the people in India at present don’t consider king George instead they think about the mother land and wordhip it and praise the motherland about the richness and it’s importance. People are still unaware about the true maning of the anthem and theydont know much history about the National Anthem. But people think that we remember our motherland and ask for blessings as it is very spiritual. Moreover it does explain us about the Indian heritage and the various vegetations of our country.In the anthem we dedicate to mother land and give respect as it is the true
Thus from the above all we can conclude that from the two songs Vandemataram and Jana gana mana ;the national song really depicts the Indian culture and vivdly describes diffent aspects of India in a different way. While in the National Anthem Jana gana mana it is more to honour the motherland and it describes about the Indian heritage and much more.
