Kapalkundala
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While returning from a lengthy pilgrimage, Nabakumar encounters a wicked Tantric sage who intends to sacrifice him to the goddess Shamshaan Kali. Freed by Kapalkundala, a beautiful young forest dweller, Nabakumar marries her the next day. Despite their happiness, he soon encounters his first wife, who has secretly joined forces with the sage. Kapalkundala is a novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, and journalist. Born into a Bengali Brahmin family, he was highly educated from a young age, graduating from Presidency College, Kolkata with an Arts degree in 1858. He later became one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta before obtaining a Law degree in 1869. Throughout his academic career, he published numerous poems and stories in weekly newspapers and other publications. His first novel, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864), is his only work in English. Between 1863 and 1891, he worked for the government of Jessore, eventually reaching the positions of Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector. Anandamath (1828), a novel based on the Sannyasi Rebellion against British forces, served as powerful inspiration for the emerging Indian nationalist movement. Chatterjee is also known as the author of Vande Mataram, a Bengali and Sanskrit poem set to music by Bengali polymath and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.