Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 183rd Birth Anniversary: Remembering The Exalted Bengali Writer Who Penned India’s National Song Vande Mataram
Popularly known as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, he was born in the village Kanthalpara in the town of North 24 Parganas in Naihati on June 27, 1838. His family was an orthodox Bengali Brahmin family and Bankim Chandra was the youngest of three brothers. His father -- Yadav Chandra Chattopadhyaya -- was the Deputy Collector of Midnapur. Bankim Chandra got remarried to Rajlakshmi Devi, after his first wife died in 1859. With his second wife, Bankim Chandra had three daughters.
Bankim Chandra did his schooling from from Hooghly Collegiate School along with his brother Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay. Following this, Bankim Chandra went to Presidency College in Kolkata and graduated with a degree in Arts in 1958. After this, he attended University of Calcutta and was among the two candidates who passed the final exam to become the school's first graduates. Following this, he was appointed as Deputy Collector of Jessore in 1958 under the Bri