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

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.