Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | 28 Jun 2024
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.
- He also served as a lawyer and district judge.
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