Anandamath (Dawn over India)

For other English-language translations of this work, see Anandamath.

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Anandamath (1941)
by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, translated by Basanta Koomar Roy

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Translation originally published in the U.S.A in 1941 as Dawn over India. Republished in India in 1992 as Anandamath. India's national song Vande Mataram was taken from this novel. In this version, characters are renamed and entire sections have been eliminated, for "prudish" reasons.

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay1687640Anandamath1941Basanta Koomar Roy

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

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