Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Quotes

1838–1894 India

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (also Chattopadhayay) (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet and journalist. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literaure.

India
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Novelists
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Also known as: Bankim, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bankimchandra, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay

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When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.

Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.

Prose must be written in language that is well understood by its readers. The world would hardly miss those literary works that are mastered by only half-a-dozen pundits.

Flee even now-don’t you know that the tantrika’s worship consists of human flesh

[N]o study is likely to be fruitful of results if carried on without a system. The majority of those who pursue knowledge for its own sake pursue it after an aimless and desultory fashion.

The Study of Hindu Philosophy (1873)

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