150 Years of Vande Mataram for UPSC

History (Bankim Chandra 1875, Anandamath 1882, Tagore at the 1896 Calcutta Congress, Swadeshi 1905) plus the polity trap: National Song status comes only from the 24 January 1950 Constituent Assembly statement, with no cover under Article 51A(a) or the 1971 Act. In the PIB cycle through the 150th-anniversary year ending 7 November 2026.

GS areas: Polity, History, Culture