Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay or Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the composer of Indias national song Vande Mataram, originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Independence Movement. Chattopadhyay wrote thirteen novels and several serious, seriocomic, satirical, scientific and critical treaties in Bengali. His works were widely translated into other regional languages of India as well as in English.

Chattopadhyay was born in the village Kanthalpara in the town of NorthParganas, Near Naihati,in an orthodox Bengali Brahmin family, the youngest of three brothers, to Yadav Chandra Chattopadhyaya and Durgadebi. His father, a government official, went on to become the Deputy Collector of Midnapur. One of his brothers, Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay was also a novelist and his known for his famous book Palamau.

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