Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and the Ideological Foundations of Indian Nationalism: A Discourse of Bande Mataram
Author: Dr. Shyamal Das DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/03080032 Abstract: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894) occupies a foundational position in the intellectual genealogy of modern Indian nationalism. Among his most enduring interventions, Bande Mataram—originally composed within the novel Anandamath (1882)—emerged as both a literary artefact and a political idiom that shaped nationalist imagination, mobilization, and symbolic politics. This …
