Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee), born on 26 June 1838, was
an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. He was
the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is
one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature. He was the
composer of Vande Mataram, written in highly Sanskritised Bengali,
personifying India as a Mother Goddess and inspiring activists during the
Indian Independence Movement. Chattopadhayay wrote fourteen novels and many
serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treatises in Bengali.
He is known as Sahitya Samrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali.
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