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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Chatterjee also spelled Catterji, Bengali Baṇkim Candra Caṭṭopādhyāy, (born June 26 27, 1838, near Naihati, Bengal, India—died April 8, 1894, Calcutta), Indian author, whose novels firmly established prose as a literary vehicle for the Bengali language and helped create in India a school of fiction on the European model.