Celebrating Bankim Chandra Chatterjee & Vande Matram

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, an Indian novelist, poet and journalist whose novels firmly established prose as a literary vehicle for the Bengali language and helped create in India a school of fiction on the European model, was born on June 27, 1838 in Naihati in Bengal.

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