Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay  (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer, poet and reporter. He was the composer of India’s national song Vande Mataram, originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra characterize India as a mother goddess and inspirational the activist during the Indian Freedom Movement. Bankim Chandra wrote 13 novel in addition to several ‘serious, serio-comic, mocking, systematic and dangerous treaties’ in Bengali. His works be widely translated into other regional languages of India as well as in English.

Bankim Chandra was born to an accepted Brahmin family unit at Kanthalpara, North 24 Parganas. He was educated at Hooghly Mohsin College founded by well-known Bengali philanthropist Muhammad Mohsin and Presidency College, Calcutta. He was one of the first former students of the University of Calcutta. From 1858, until his retirement in 1891, he served as a deputy magistrate and deputy radio dish in the Government of British India.

When Bipin Chandra Pal decided to start a nationalistic journal in August 1906, he named it Vande Mataram, after Bankim Chandra's song. Lala Lajpat Rai also available a journal of the same first name.