The person who wrote Vande Mataram is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee who was born and brought up in Naihati, a city in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal
Popularly known as Sahitya Samrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali, Chatterjee, who was born on June 26, 1838, wrote his debut novel Rajmohan’s Wife in English
Chatterjee, who obtained a degree in law, went on to write fourteen novels including in his mother tongue Bengali
Most of his novels provide strong message of women empowerment as it speaks volumes about the strength and risky, brave moves made by women for survival
One of his novels Devi Chaudurani became an inspiration for women to come out of their homes and join the independence struggle against the British
Chatterjee, who served as a Deputy Magistrate & Deputy Collector of the British led Indian government, wrote his first Bengali novel Durgeshnandini which was published in 1865
The most popular Bengali novel of Chatterjee remains Anandamath as it is the source from where Vande Mataram was adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress
Chatterjee who wrote several articles for several newspapers and magazines to address social and political issues of the time even founded the Bengali literary magazine Bangadarshan in 1872
He was able to highly influence most stalwarts of that time like Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa
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Despite serving as a high ranking government officer, he came into conflict with the colonial government and with his writings gave rise to a spirit of nationalism among people before breathing his last on April 8, 1894