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Vande Mataram’s Forgotten Cricket Connection
Recently the 'Vande Mataram' was in the news, on the 150th anniversary of its composition, with political colours. We shall not discuss politics here. In 1875, Bengali author Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, known as one of India's most influential 19th century thinkers, wrote a poem, which inspired the freedom fighters in the battle against British colonial rule over India. This poem was first published in his 1882 novel 'Anandmath' under the title 'Vande Mataram'. In 1937 it was accorded the status of the country's National Song.
You will be surprised to note that it has a strange cricket connection and many historians attribute the birth of this poem to an incident, which took place in a cricket match.
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