Ānandamaṭh
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Anandamath is a novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1882. It is set during the Sannyasi Rebellion, an anti-colonial uprising against the East India Company. The novel depicts the motherland as a goddess and features the poem "Vande Mataram," which became a significant rallying cry for the Indian Independence Movement. The poem was later adopted as India's national song.12
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Bengali literatureThe Bengal Renaissance…Chandra Chatterjee, whose seminal work Anandamath (1882), a criticism of British rule in India, popularized the notion of Bharat Mata, or the country as a goddess. A devotional poem in the novel, called “Vande Mataram,” became a rallying cry for the Indian Independence Movement and was later informally adopted as…
Read More…Chandra Chatterjee, whose seminal work Anandamath (1882), a criticism of British rule in India, popularized the notion of Bharat Mata, or the country as a goddess. A devotional poem in the novel, called “Vande Mataram,” became a rallying cry for the Indian Independence Movement and was later informally adopted as…
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…in his best known work, Ānanda-maṭh (1892; “The Abbey of Bliss”), the motherland in the person of the goddess Durgā is extolled.
Read More…in his best known work, Ānanda-maṭh (1892; “The Abbey of Bliss”), the motherland in the person of the goddess Durgā is extolled.
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