![]() On the road, one Colonel Duffin was playing cricket when he was disturbed by the palanquin. However, fate had its own way.Ī Bengali man named Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was returning home from his office in a palanquin one gummy evening of 1873. Around 1870, they even started forcing their anthem, God Save the Queen, on Indians. After his Vishabriksha (The Poison Tree) was published in 1873, The Times, a newspaper based in London wrote.After the first war of independence in 1857, the British had established themselves as the sole master of the destiny of India.Bankim was critical about the British rule and often used to criticise the government in his writings and publications.Many critics consider him as one of the best writers of Bengali literaure and claim that to understand his novels, one needs to understand him first.The tune of Vande Mataram was later composed by Rabindranath Tagore It is a political novel depicting a Sanyasi army fighting the British soldiers. Bankim published his novel Anandamath in 1882 which also had verses of Vande Mataram.Some of his famous works were Chandrasekhar and Rajani (both 1877) He continued writing novels which gradually gained wide readership.It had an epochal approach, consisting of stories, humorous sketches, historical and random essays, religious and devotional articles, etc Bangadarshan was a monthly publishing literary magazine started by Bankim in April 1972.Both the novels have well received and translated into other languages also Durgeshnandini (1865) and Kapalkundala (1866) were his first major publications.His earliest publications came out in the weekly newspaper Sangbad Prabhakar.He retired from the government services in 1891 He was further promoted to Deputy Magistrate. Just like his father, Bankim was appointed as the Deputy Collector of Jessore.Bankim was one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta.He was married at a very early age of 11, a common practice at that time.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal to an orthodox Bengali Brahmin family.On his 177th birth anniversary, let us look at some of the important moments from his life: He wrote several serious, comical, satirical and scientific novels and publications in Bengali. By IndiaToday.in: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali, writer, poet and a journalist who composed our National Song 'Vande Mataram' during the India's freedom struggle. ![]()
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