The eminent Bengali novelist and composer of national song Vande Mataram who aroused a new consciousness in the 19th century Bengal Society was :

A. Rabindranath Tagore

B. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

C. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

D. None of the above

Answer: Option B

Solution(By Examveda Team)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on June 27, 1838, in Naihati in West Bengal to an orthodox Bengali Brahmin family. He wrote the national song 'Vande Mataram', which was a part of his novel Anandamath (1882). It is a political novel depicting a Sanyasi army fighting the British soldiers.