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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

1838 - 1894

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; 26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian Bengali 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is the 1,329th most popular writer (down from 965th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from India (down from 115th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 1,329 out of 7,302. Before him are Emmanuelle Arsan, Natalie Clifford Barney, Lu Yu, Abu Tammam, Samuel R. Delany, and Henri Murger. After him are Widukind of Corvey, Walter M. Miller Jr., Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Dag Solstad, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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Emmanuelle Arsan
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HPI: 66.22
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HPI: 66.22
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HPI: 66.21
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HPI: 66.18
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HPI: 66.16
Rank: 1,329
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HPI: 66.15
Rank: 1,330
Walter M. Miller Jr.
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HPI: 66.12
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Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
1752 - 1831
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 1,332
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HPI: 66.11
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1869 - 1945
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 1,334
Hans Urs von Balthasar
1905 - 1988
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 1,335

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 24. Before him are Anton Mauve, Arthur Auwers, Camille Jordan, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Vladimir Markovnikov, and Yamagata Aritomo. After him are Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, 11th Dalai Lama, Konstanty Kalinowski, James Craig Watson, and Marià Fortuny. Among people deceased in 1894, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ranks 22. Before him are Theodor Billroth, Leconte de Lisle, Emmanuel Chabrier, Nadezhda von Meck, Hassan I of Morocco, and Austen Henry Layard. After him are Eugène Charles Catalan, Nikolai Ge, Alexander von Middendorff, William Waddington, August Kundt, and R. M. Ballantyne.

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Anton Mauve
PAINTER
1838 - 1888
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 18
Arthur Auwers
ASTRONOMER
1838 - 1915
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 19
Camille Jordan
MATHEMATICIAN
1838 - 1922
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 20
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
WRITER
1838 - 1889
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 21
Vladimir Markovnikov
CHEMIST
1838 - 1904
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 22
Yamagata Aritomo
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1838 - 1922
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 23
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
WRITER
1838 - 1894
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 24
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1838 - 1862
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 25
Prince Louis, Count of Trani
NOBLEMAN
1838 - 1886
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 26
11th Dalai Lama
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1838 - 1856
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 27
Konstanty Kalinowski
POLITICIAN
1838 - 1864
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 28
James Craig Watson
ASTRONOMER
1838 - 1880
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 29
Marià Fortuny
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1838 - 1874
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 30