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Railways PYQCBT 2 2017

RRB NTPC · Question 70

The National Song of India, 'Vande Mataram' was composed in ______ language.

  1. Pali

  2. Urdu

  3. Hindi

  4. Sanskrit

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Answer: (D) Sanskrit

Explanation

Vande Mataram was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the 1870s in highly Sanskritised Bengali (treated as Sanskrit in the official key) and later included in his novel Anandamath (1882).