Bande Mataram (Paris publication)
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Bande Mataram (disambiguation)
Bande Mataram may refer to*Vande Mataram, national song of India and the origin of the patriotic cry of the Indian independence movement*Vande Mataram , patriotic studio album by Indian composer A.R.Rahman...

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The Bande Mataram was a nationalist publication from Paris begun in September 1909 by the Paris Indian Society
Paris Indian Society
The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 at Paris under the patronage of Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, B.H. Godrej and S. R. Rana...

. Founded by Madam Bhikaji Cama the paper along with the later publication of Talvar
Talvar
Madan's Talwar, later known as The Talvar, was an early-20th century Indian Nationalist periodical published from Berlin.Originally named after Madan Lal Dhingra, one of the heroes of the Indian independence movement who had been executed for the political assassination of William Hutt Curzon...

was aimed at inciting nationalist unrest in India and sought to sway the loyalty of the Sepoy
Sepoy
A sepoy was formerly the designation given to an Indian soldier in the service of a European power. In the modern Indian Army, Pakistan Army and Bangladesh Army it remains in use for the rank of private soldier.-Etymology and Historical usage:...

 of the British Indian Army
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...

. It was founded in response to the British ban on Bankim Chatterjee's nationalist poem of Vande mataram
Vande Mataram
Vande Mataram is a poem from the famed novel Anandamath which was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. It was written in Bengali and Sanskrit....

, and continued the message of The Indian Sociologist
The Indian Sociologist
The Indian Sociologist was an Indian nationalist publication in the early twentieth century. Its subtitle was An Organ of Freedom, and Political, Social, and Religious Reform....

that had earlier been published from London.
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