Births
Published: 02:07 AM, 27 June 2018
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chatto-padhyay or Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was an Indian writer, poet and journalist. He was the composer of Vande Mataram, originally in Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Independence Movement.
Chattopadhyay wrote thirteen novels and many serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treaties' in Bengali. His works were widely translated into other regional languages of India as well as in English.
Born on 27June 1838, near Naihati, Bengal, India to an orthodox Brahmin family, Chattopadhyay was educated at Midnapore Collegiate School (then Governmental Zilla School), where he wrote his first poem, Hooghly Mohsin College, founded by Bengali philanthropist Muhammad Mohsin and Presidency College, Calcutta.
He was one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta. From 1858, until his retirement in 1891, he served as a deputy magistrate and deputy collector in the Government of British India.
