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Bankim Chandra Chatterji |
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1838 – 1894
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Sri Bankim Chandra Chatterji's first literary effort, Durgesanandini, published in 1865, was also the first novel in Bengali. With a giant's stride he took Bengali literature to the pinnacle of glory and exerted great influence on many modern Indian languages in which Bankim's works were translated. He is the author of the famous national song
Vande Mataram, which was on the lips of everyone during our freedom-struggle. |
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leela rana
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Please give full information that is from birth to death.
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mikail muzaffar ahmed
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plese give full information that is from the begining of life to the end of his life.
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Manik Sarkar
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Kapalkundala (1866) is Chatterjee's first major publication. The heroine of this novel, named after the mendicant woman in Bhavabhuti's Malatimadhava, is modelled partly after Kalidasa's Shakuntala and partly after Shakespeare's Miranda. He had chosen Dariapur in Contai Subdivision as the background of this famous novel.
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kuran chandra ghosh
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Rishi (Sage) Bankim Chandra was called "Sahitya Samrat" (Emperor of Literature) by all his contemporaries and has been known as such in all literary circles in Bengal and outside.
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kuran c ghosh
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Sahitya Samrat Rishi Bankim penned the most powerful National song "Vande Mataram" in a unique mix of Sanskrit and Bengali to the effect that it created a new fervour for nationalism and became the mantra for liberation of India.
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KURAN GHOSH
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I bought from Kolkata`s College Street old book shops a copy of the English novel RAJMOHAN`S WIFE by Rishi Bankim and it is with me till date. Strangely the very first novel by a Bengali was not in Bengali but in English. Rishi Bankim`s KRISHNA CHARITRA is a masterpiece, as is his HISTORY OF BENGALIS or THE HINDU MATRIMONIAL CODE which is every lawyer`s delight!
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KURAN C GHOSH
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When I was a Teacher of English in Rajarhathat Shiksha Niketan for Girls in 1966 I took the students for a visit to the shrine that is the birthplace of Rishi Bankim at Naihati Kantalpara in the North 24 Parganas where local trains go from Sealdah in Calcutta. The place breathes serenity even today. It must be visited by each and every one of us.
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KURAN C GHOSH
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It is a literary wonder that only Rishi Bankim could create in the form of: THE HINDU MATRIMONIAL CODE in English, AND both KRISHNACHARITRA and KAMALAKANTER DAFTAR in Bengali.
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