WRITER

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

1838 - 1894

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature. He was the composer of Vande Mataram, written in highly Sanskritised Bengali, personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring activists during the Indian Independence Movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee has received more than 1,490,201 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is the 966th most popular writer (down from 882nd in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from India (down from 107th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Writer.

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Notable Works

The Poison Tree (A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal)
2007
The Poison Tree
2006
Kamalakanta
1997
The Poison Tree, A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal
2006

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 966 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, Victorien Sardou, and B. Traven. After him are Alexander Griboyedov, Imru' al-Qais, Heinrich Kramer, Nikolay Karamzin, Stephen Covey, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 16. Before him are Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, Léon Gambetta, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Yamagata Aritomo, and Anton Mauve. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, Liliʻuokalani, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Camille Jordan, Ōkuma Shigenobu, and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Among people deceased in 1894, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 16. Before him are Anton Rubinstein, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Hans von Bülow, Leconte de Lisle, and Theodor Billroth. After him are August Kundt, Emmanuel Chabrier, Hassan I of Morocco, Austen Henry Layard, Nadezhda von Meck, and Nikolai Ge.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 115 out of 1,861. Before him are Tukaram (1608), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Sushruta (-620), Vātsyāyana (300), Dhyan Chand (1905), and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815). After him are Droupadi Murmu (1958), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Chandragupta II (400), Sambhaji (1657), and Vishvamitra (-2000).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 19. Before him are Lawrence Durrell (1912), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Tukaram (1608), and Vātsyāyana (300). After him are Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vidyapati (1352), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sankardev (1449), and Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601).

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