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.
- His famous novels include Durgeshnandini, 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, Rabindranath Tagore sang this melodic poem for the first time at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.
- It was officially adopted as the national song by the Constituent Assembly of India on 24th January 1950.
- He is often regarded as the “Sahitya Samrat” (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali literature.
