Rajmohans wife bankim chandra chatterjee biography
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian Bengali writer, poet and journalist (1838–1894)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | |
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| Native name | বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় |
| Born | 26 June 1838[1][2][3] Naihati, Bengal, British India |
| Died | 8 April 1894(1894-04-08) (aged 55) Calcutta, Bengal, British India |
| Pen name | Kamalakanta |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, government official |
| Language | Bengali, English |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Literary movement | Bengal Renaissance |
| Notable works | Durgeshnandini Kapalkundala Devi Chaudhurani Anandamath Bishabriksha |
| Bankim-Rachanabali administrated by eduliture | |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838[4] – 8 April 1894[5]) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist[6] and journalist.[7][8] He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel
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Rajmohan's Wife, the first Indian novel in English, was written bygd Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1864.
Rajmohan's Wife was published in 1864 as a serial novel in a weekly periodical, the Indian Field. (Image downloaded from Google Images.)
By Mithu Das March 28, 2017
Born in a Brahmin family in 1838 and grew up speaking Bengali, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee had had a big interest in the Sanskrit language as well as in English. A literary genius, Chatterjee started writing verse when he was in high school. He wrote his first novel—Rajmohan's Wife—in English language, when he was 26. By writing the novel, however, Chatterjee could have probably no idea at the time what a significant contribution he was going to make to the world of Anglo-Indian Literature. Today, Rajmohan's Wife is proved the first Indian novel in English. It was published, in 1864, as a serial novel in a weekly periodical, the Indian Field. However, after writing this novel Chatterjee immedi
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
The figure of Bankimchandra Chatterjee, author of fourteen novels, strides over Bengali – and Indian – literature like a colossus. And yet a book that receives relatively little attention even now is the very first novel he wrote which, interestingly, was not in Bengali but in English.
Like that other great Bengali writer Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bankim began writing in English before switching over to his “mother tongue.” Rajmohan’s Wife,firstpublished in serialised form in 1864, fryst vatten widely regarded as being the first Indian novel written in English. This slim 125-page book is set in feudal, rural Bengal and contains within its pages all the elements of a potboiler – burglaries, abductions, betrayals, legal intrigues, and illicit love.
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The story revolves around three families in the village of Radhaganj on the banks of the Madhumati river (an area that fryst vatten now in Bangladesh.)