Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838 - 1894)

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee or Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, CIE (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet and journalist. Chattopadhyay wrote fourteen novels and many serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treatises in Bengali. He is known as Sahitya Samrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali.