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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

1838 - 1894

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (also 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 Bengal 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 1,376,540 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is the 883rd most popular writer (up from 1,299th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from India (up from 126th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 883 out of 5,755. Before him are Gaius Lucilius, Basava, Vicente Aleixandre, Hans Sachs, Eugène Scribe, and Thomas Malory. After him are Clifford D. Simak, Philostratus, Abraham Abulafia, Wilkie Collins, Jacques Clément, and Georg Brandes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 16. Before him are Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, Émile Loubet, Léon Gambetta, Yamagata Aritomo, and Princess Louise of Prussia. After him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Liliʻuokalani, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Camille Jordan, William Henry Perkin, and Edward W. Morley. Among people deceased in 1894, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 16. Before him are Marie François Sadi Carnot, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Pafnuty Chebyshev, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Hans von Bülow, and Leconte de Lisle. After him are Emmanuel Chabrier, Theodor Billroth, Austen Henry Layard, Hassan I of Morocco, August Kundt, and Eugène Charles Catalan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 108 out of 1,493. Before him are Bindusara (-320), Radha (null), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Pete Best (1941), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), and Basava (1134). After him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Pervez Musharraf (1943), and Vinoba Bhave (1895).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 18. Before him are Ghalib (1797), Vātsyāyana (300), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Lawrence Durrell (1912), and Basava (1134). After him are Ahmed Deedat (1918), Namdev (1270), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bharata Muni (-1000), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), and Vidyapati (1352).

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