biography
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Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1838–94)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Katalpura, Bengal. One of the most influential figures in 19th-c Indian literature, his novels included Durges Nandini (1864) and Anandamath (1882), a novel of the Sannyasi rebellion of 1772 from which the Nationalist song Bande Mataram (‘Hail to thee, Mother’) was taken. |
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