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2 unusual facts about Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay


Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

The novel was also the source of the song Vande Mataram (I worship my Motherland for she truly is my mother) which, set to music by Rabindranath Tagore, was taken up by many Indian nationalists, and is now the National Song of India.

Julius J. Lipner

Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood (sole translator/author; this book contains a full English translation of Bankim Chatterji’s famous 19th-century Bengali novel, with an extensive Introduction and Critical Apparatus, and received the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation awarded by The South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies in the USA;


Shadhu-bhasha

By the time Vidyasagar, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay are creating the ground work for Shadhu bhasha, Kaliprasanna Singha, Peary Chand Mitra and others are realising the strength of the cholito bhasha.

Vasudev Balwant Phadke

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's patriotic novel Anand Math incorporated various contemporary acts of patriotism performed by Vasudev during his freedom struggle.


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