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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

  • 28 Jun 2024
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Recently, the 185th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was celebrated.

  • Born on 27th June 1838, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was an exemplary novelist, social satirist, journalist and the face of the Bengal Renaissance.
  • He composed Vande Mataram in Sanskrit, of which the first two verses were adopted as National song, and it was a source of inspiration to the people in their freedom struggle.
  • One of his and Indian literature’s finest texts, Anandamath (1882), which is set in the background of the Sanyasi Rebellion (1770-1820), also contains Vande Mataram.
    • The Sanyasis rose in rebellion after the great famine of 1770 in Bengal which caused acute chaos and misery.
  • He also founded a monthly literary magazine, Bangadarshan, in 1872, through which Bankim is credited with influencing the emergence of a Bengali identity and nationalism.
  • His other notable works include Durgeshnandini (1865) Kapalkundala (1866), Krishnakanter Will (1878), Devichaudhrani (1884), Bishabriksha (The Poison Tree), Chandrasekhar (1877) and Rajmohan’s wife.
    • He also served as a lawyer and district judge.

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