Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

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The family of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the writer and composer of ‘Vande Mataram’, recently hailed the Prime Minister’s gesture to mark the 150 years of the country’s national song.

About Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, also known as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. 
• He is famous as the author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.
• He was born on June 27, 1838, in the village of Kantalpara in the 24 Paraganas District of Bengal.
• Born into the family of a government official under the British rule of India, he was one of the first two graduates of the University of Calcutta and later obtained a degree in law.
• He began his literary career as a writer of verse. He then turned to fiction. 
• Durgeshnandini, his first Bengali romance, was published in 1865. 
• His famous novels include Kapalkundala (1866), Mrinalini (1869), Vishbriksha (1873), Chandrasekhar (1877), Rajani (1877), Rajsimha (1881), and Devi Chaudhurani (1884). 
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s most famous novel was Anand Math (1882). 
  • It was set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century. 
  • Anand Math contained the song “Vande Mataram”, which was later adopted as the national song.
    • The patriotic song was written in Sanskrit.
    • In the year 1896, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore sang this melodic poem for the first time at the Kolkata session of the Indian National Congress. 
    • It was officially adopted as the national song by the Constituent Assembly of India on 24th January 1950.
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay passed away on April 8, 1894.
• As a distinguished novelist, poet, and essayist, his contributions significantly influenced the development of modern Bengali prose and the articulation of an emerging Indian nationalism.
• He is often regarded as the “Sahitya Samrat” (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali literature.

Source: NDTV

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