Anandamath

Description

Title: Anandamath
Author: Chatterj, Bankim Chandra
Item Code: ISBN9788122201307
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks, Delhi
Edition: 1st ed., Date: 2005, 135 pp., PB
Description: ‘Anadamath’ is an extraordinary political novel. The plot of the story, which has epical dimensions, is based on the sanyasi rebellion that erupted in Bengal in the late eighteenth century. The sanyasis fought the British against all odds, whom they regarded as an arch enemy of the country and responsible for the terrible famine of 1772. In this novel, Bankim also wrote ‘Bande Matram’ (‘Hail Motherland’) and gave India its first national song, which later became a rallying call of the national freedom movement.