Which of the following is/are written by ‘Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’?

1. Anandamath
2. Bishabriksha
3. Kapalkundala
4. Debi Choudhurani

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India.

• He composed the song Vande Mataram in Sanskrit, which was a source of inspiration to the people in their freedom struggle.
• His epic Novel Anandamath - set in the background of the Sanyasi Rebellion (1770-1820), when Bengal was facing a famine too - made Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay an influential figure on the Bengali renaissance.
• India got its national song, Vande Mataram, from Anandamath.
• He also founded a monthly literary magazine, Bangadarshan, in 1872, through which Bankim is credited with influencing the emergence of a Bengali identity and nationalism.
• The magazine stopped publication in the late 1880s, but was resurrected in 1901 with Rabindranath Tagore as its editor.

Other Literary Contributions

• He had studied Sanskrit and was very interested in the subject, but later took on the responsibility to make Bengali the language of the masses. However, his first published work - a novel - was in English.
• His famous novels include Kapalkundala (1866), Debi Choudhurani, Bishabriksha (The Poison Tree), Chandrasekhar (1877), Rajmohan’s wife and Krishnakanter Will.

Hence option 4th is correct.

By: Shubham Tiwari