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Modi has paid homage to Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

  • June 29, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Modi has paid homage to Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Subject : History

Context : The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid homage to Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay on his Jayanti.

Concept :

  • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee or Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838 – 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet and journalist.
  • He is known as SahityaSamrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali. He wrote fourteen novels and many serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treatises in Bengali.
  • He also received the title of Rai Bahadur in 1891.
  • One of his brothers, Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay was also a novelist and is known for his book “Palamau”.

Literary career

  • Chattopadhyay’s earliest publications were in Ishwar Chandra Gupta’s weekly newspaper Sangbad Prabhakar.
  • Durgeshnandini (Daughter of the Feudal Lord) is a Bengali historical romance novel written by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865. Durgeshnandini is the first Bengali novel written by him as well as the first major Bengali novel in the history of Bengali literature.
  • Anandamath is a Bengali fiction, written by him and published in 1882. It is inspired by and set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century. VandeMataram as the Motherland was published in this novel.
  • VandeMataram (also pronounced BandeMataram) is a Bengali poem, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , originally in Sanskrit, in 1870s, which he included in his 1882 novel Anandamath.
History Modi has paid homage to Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

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