Who wrote the famous novel Anandamath?

Nation became to identify with the image or a figure and gradually the image was created so that people can identify the nation. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the famous novel Anandamath. As India came to be associated with the image of Bharat Mata in the 20th century, he was the first person to create the image and wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ as a hymn in the 1870s.

The famous novel Anandamath included this hymn, and during the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, this hymn was widely sung.

NOTE - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the Indian writer, poet and Journalist who with his various works inspired activist during the Indian Independence movement.