{"id":77092,"date":"2025-12-09T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=77092"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:27:21","slug":"bankim-chandra-chattopadhyay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bankim-chandra-chattopadhyay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The family of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the writer and composer of &#8216;Vande Mataram&#8217;, recently hailed the Prime Minister\u2019s gesture to mark the 150 years of the country&#8217;s national song.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, also known as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was one of the <\/span><b>greatest novelists and poets of India.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is famous as the <\/span><b>author of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-song-of-india-vande-mataram\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vande Mataram<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>national song of India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was <\/span><b>born <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on June 27, <\/span><b>1838, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the village of Kantalpara in the 24 Paraganas District of <\/span><b>Bengal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Born into the family of a government official <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the British rule of India, he was <\/span><b>one of the first two graduates of the University of Calcutta<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and later obtained a <\/span><b>degree in law.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He began his literary career as a writer of verse. He then turned to fiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Durgeshnandini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>his first Bengali romance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was published in <\/span><b>1865<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His <\/span><b>famous novels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include <\/span><b>Kapalkundala <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1866), <\/span><b>Mrinalini <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1869), <\/span><b>Vishbriksha <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1873), <\/span><b>Chandrasekhar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1877), <\/span><b>Rajani <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1877), <\/span><b>Rajsimha <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1881), and <\/span><b>Devi Chaudhurani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1884).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bankim Chandra Chatterjee&#8217;s<\/span><b> most famous novel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was <\/span><b>Anand Math (1882).\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was set in the <\/span><b>background <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the<\/span><b> Sannyasi Rebellion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>late 18th century.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anand Math <\/span><b>contained <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>song \u201cVande Mataram<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, which was later adopted as the national song.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The patriotic song was <\/span><b>written in Sanskrit.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the year <\/span><b>1896<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Gurudev <\/span><b>Rabindranath Tagore<\/b> <b>sang this melodic poem <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the <\/span><b>first time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the <\/span><b>Kolkata session of the Indian National Congress.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>officially adopted <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as the <\/span><b>national song <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the <\/span><b>Constituent Assembly of India on 24th January 1950.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay passed away on April 8, 1894.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is often regarded as the \u201c<\/span><b>Sahitya Samrat\u201d (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali literature.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/what-pm-modi-said-about-him-is-highly-respectful-bankim-chandras-family-9774437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, also known as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. 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