Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Quotes (5 quotes)

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Kapalkundala

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

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“[N]o study is likely to be fruitful of results if carried on without a system. The majority of those who pursue knowledge for its own sake pursue it after an aimless and desultory fashion.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

The Study of Hindu Philosophy (1873)

“When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay book Kapalkundala

Kopal-Kundala, Chapter IV: With the Kapálik translated by Henry Arthur Deuteros Phillips (1885)

“Prose must be written in language that is well understood by its readers. The world would hardly miss those literary works that are mastered by only half-a-dozen pundits.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Peary Chand Mitra's Place in Bengali Literature (as quoted in Bengal Online http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/bankimchandra.asp)

“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation … Woman is light, man is shadow.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115

“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115