Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is one of the greatest luminaries in the literary firmament of India and Bengal. He was a novelist, poet, Essayist and journalist. He was the author of Vande (or Bande) Mataram, which inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India. Born into the family of a government official under the British rule of India, he was one of the first two graduates of the University of Calcutta and later obtained a degree in law. He worked in government service for twenty years, often coming into conflict with the authorities. He published his first novel, Kapalkundala, in 1866, and went on to publish more than seventeen romances, historical novels, and essays, as well as several literary journals.
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