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  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8 April 1894, Bangla: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.
Although he wrote on a narrow range of subjects, and without any pretension of great literary insight, he became popular on a scale that no other Bengali writer before or since has equalled.
Works by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay at Project Gutenberg
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bankim_Chandra_Chattopadhyay   (691 words)

  
 Bengali Greats Series: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - the Immortal Wordsmith of Bengal
Sarat Chandra who had a lot in common with Bankim as they had similar middle class upbringing and shared the same socio-economic background, was greatly influenced by Bankim's writings.
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (nickname Nyarha) was born in Devanandapore - a village in West Bengal under the district of Hooghly on 15th September 1876 (31 Bhadra 1283 BY).
Sarat Chandra was actively involved in Indian freedom movement and became the President of Howrah District Congress at the request of C.
bengalonline.sitemarvel.com /saratchandra.html   (2232 words)

  
 Calcutta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Devi Chowdhurani, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Kshudiram Bose and Surya Sen. The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former.
Of course, the rousing cry that awakened India's soul was penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, now the national song of the nation, an ode to the land of Bharat (India) as the Divine Mother, Vande Mataram.
The Elgin Road residence of Subhash Chandra Bose in Calcutta was the place from where the great patriot escaped the British to reach Germany, during the second World War.
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 Bengali language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Songs like the Indian national anthem Jôno Gôno Môno (by Rabindranath Tagore) and the national song of India (by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee)) Bônde Matôrom were actually composed in the highly refined Sadhubhasha form of Bangla.
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was an author whose speciality was exploring complex human psychology.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the earliest Bengali novelist and is popularly known as the author of India's first national song, "Bande Mātarom" (pronounced in Hindi "Vande Mātāram").
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /b/e/n/Bengali.html   (4284 words)

  
 Great Bangalees II
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born on 26 June 1838 at the village of Kathalpara, near Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bangla of Jadab Chandra Chatterjee and Durga Debi.
Born in the village of Debanandapur in Hoogly district, Sarat Chandra was reared by his maternal relatives in Bhagalpur.
According to Gokul Chandra, a member of the communist party and an organiser of the rally Somen Chanda was killed by the goons of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) at Sebasram, Sutrapur, Dhaka on 8 March 1942.
muktadhara.net /page65.html   (2146 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chinsurah, March 18: Vande Mataram, penned by novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, is the country’s national song but the house he wrote it in is nowhere on the state government’s radar.
The building, bought by the government in 1996, has been unoccupied for the last 12 years since it ceased to be the office of the information and cultural affairs department.
Bankim Chandra also wrote Krishnakanter Will and Rajani in the same house.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040319/asp/bengal/story_3022132.asp   (260 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had advocated for abolition of prostitution, according to a copy of the judicial report that the novelist had submitted as the Deputy Magistrate of Murshidabad about 130 years ago.
Mr Chattopadhyay observed that coming back to the social mainstream for the Hindu women was difficult in those times, unlike their Muslim counterparts, he said.
Mr Chattopadhyay observed in his report that besides poverty and lack of education, the women were also trapped into the profession.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03july04/national.htm   (4622 words)

  
 Kolkata
Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Devi Chowdhurani, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Kshudiram Bose and Surya Sen. The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former.
Despite its decline from the pre-eminent position of the cultural capital of India in recent times, it still retains a strong tradition in cinema and theatre.
There are six systems of education catering to each --- the private English medium based convent school education, the central governmental system of education, the West Bengal governmental system of education, the Oxford / Cambridge local exam syndicate education system, the Islamic Madrasah system of education and lastly the open school based education.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ko/kolkata.html   (1953 words)

  
 Humanscape - December 1999
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, author of the song Vande Mataram and the first Indian intellectual to call for the writing of a collective nationalist historiography, got himself in a fix when he unquestioningly accepted, in the terms of 19th century European thought, that history was synonymous with succession/inheritance, and succession coterminous with time/chronology.
Bankim resolved his historical guilt by arguing that when Muslims conquered Bengal, Bengal was inhabited by `aborigines' -- Aryans/Hindus from the north were yet to settle in the East.
The triumph of foreign conquest, to Bankim therefore, was the defeat of `primitives', not a defeat of the Hindu nation that he stood for and that he wrote the history of.
www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/1999/Dec/h129912t.htm   (1262 words)

  
 Overview of Bengali language and literature
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838 - 1894) brought about a major change in Bengali prose writing.
India's national song Vande Mataram was authored by Bankim and is part of the novel Anandamath.
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876 -1938)brought Bengali literature to homes and hearts of the common people.
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 bcrwc
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - the pioneer of Bengali literature and an outstanding social thinker.
Far from the sound and fury of the city of Kolkata to the solemn silence of nature - Barasat is a place with historic heritage adorned with scenic beauty.
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 The man behind Devdas, Parineeta
Known as the master storyteller, Sarat Chandra, like many of his contemporaries, was much influenced by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
However, Sarat Chandra, unlike the older Bankimbabu, struck a chord with his readers by lending a modern touch to old themes and replacing the verbose bankimi style with an easier, matter-of-fact flavour.
Sarat Chandra's women are eternal optimists amid a sea of despair.
in.rediff.com /movies/2005/jun/20mspec.htm   (874 words)

  
 West Bengal - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Some prominent members include Kazi Nazrul Islam, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhay.
Also from West Bengal is the famous Indian singer in films, Kishore Kumar (a Bengali by lineage but born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India), as well as the world-famous sitarist Ravi Shankar.
Subhash Chandra Bose, who was belovedly called "Netaji", is still considered an exemplar of courage for Indian youth.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/West_Bengal   (702 words)

  
 Official Website of Barrackpore Sub Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bankim Chandra was a path finder of modern Bengali literature though he started with English novel (Rajmohan’s wife).
He was the maternal uncle of the famous writer Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
elder brother of Bankim Chandra and editor of ‘Bangadarshan’ for some period.
www.barrackpore.gov.in /HTM/sdobkp_profile.htm   (589 words)

  
 The harbingers of nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Swami Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863 as Narendra Nath Dutta in Calcutta whereas Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay became the pioneer of nationalist literature.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did so politically, and particularly in the context of World War II, advocated that neutrality could be suicidal.
ccc.domaindlx.com /socialcause/JAN16-31-2005/Harbingers.htm   (856 words)

  
 Calcutta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former.
The rousing cry that awakened India's soul was penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, now the national song of the nation, an ode to the land of Bharat (India) as the Divine Mother, Vande Mataram.
The first in-vitro fertilization (to produce test tube baby "Durga") in India (and second in the world) was performed by city doctor Dr.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ca/calcutta.html   (3260 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
Portraits of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Dr K M Munshi were among six unveiled by Prime Minister....
Portraits of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Dr K M Munshi were among six unveiled by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the majestic Central Hall of Parliament today.
Bengali novelist, Chattopadhyay penned the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ in his novel ‘Anand Math’, which became the mantra of nationalism in the struggle against British rule.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03aug22/national.htm   (3754 words)

  
 Indian fiction
Anandamatha is a famous Bengali novel, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and published in 1882.
Parineeta (1914) is a story by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay set in Calcutta, India during the early part of the twentieth century.
It is the story of a poor orphan girl, Lolita, who is sent to live with her uncle.
www.shortopedia.com /I/N/Indian_fiction   (633 words)

  
 SALC 40100: Autumn 2003: SA Texts & Critical Practices I
Sudipta Kaviraj, "A Taste for Transgression: Liminality in the Novels of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay," in The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Discourse in India, pp.
Bankim Chandra Chatterji, The abbey of bliss; a translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Anandamath,tr.
Victor A. van Bijlert, "Bankim's Mother: Imagery of the Indian Nation," in ed.
salc.uchicago.edu /40100-TextsCrit.Seely.03.html   (1326 words)

  
 MP govt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The state cabinet meetings will also begin with a rendition of the national song penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
But, there is no getting away because the chief minister has ordered the general administration department to provide a copy of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's work along with the English translation by Aurobindo Ghosh.
A section of the minority community has also been objecting to the song on religious grounds and the government move has the potential of hurting its sentiments.
ccc.domaindlx.com /socialcause/june163005/Vandemataram.htm   (371 words)

  
 XIII LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II (Winter Session)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
SHRI SUDIP BANDYOPADHYAY (CALCUTTA NORTH WEST): Sir, the `Vande Mataram' programme has been initiated by the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports since the 11th December, 1999 and will conclude on the 12th January, 2000, on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
The composer of `Vande Mataram' was Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
I would propose that at Vishwa Bharati, Shanti Niketan, founded by Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore, a light and sound record system be introduced at this juncture so that in the new millennium, the recorded voices of Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay could be heard.
parliamentofindia.nic.in /lsdeb/ls13/ses2/24201299.htm   (194 words)

  
 'Vande Mataram' voted second most popular song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
India's national song Vande Mataram has been voted as the second most popular song in the world next only to an Irish republican anthem in a poll by the BBC World Service, organisers said.
Vande Mataram, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, had also featured in the 1950s movie Anand Math.
A Nation Once Again, written in 1841 by Irish patriot Thomas Davis as a call for independence from British rule, stood first, largely because of a global e-mail campaign calling on Irish expatriates to vote.
www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/0103/218.html   (216 words)

  
 First cut is deepest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Subhas Chandra Bose, in his famous essay on Gandhi, had observed that while Gandhiji could understand his friends he did not understand his enemy (the British).
I would say Gandhiji could not even read the mind of the Muslims he treated as his friends, though less than five per cent of them subscribed to the 'secular' Congress.
It is time Gandhi's political progeny-let us call it the Gandhi tree-and the communists, who reign in the State of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, realise all their political epistemology is valid only till the ground beneath their feet is Hindu.
www.hvk.org /articles/1202/193.html   (595 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Ranchi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It also has the complete works of several Hindi, Bengali and English authors.
The authors whose works find place in the library include Premchand, Bhartendu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bimal Mitra, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad.
Besides, readers will also find Ramchandra Shukla’s Hindi Sahitya Ki Itihas (1940), Kavya Nirnaya by Bhikharidas, the selected works of Lenin and Village Panchayats in India (1956) at the library.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050921/asp/ranchi/story_5259377.asp   (548 words)

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