Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay included the song 'Vande Mataram' in his novel:

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee) included the song "Vande Mataram" in his Bengali novel "Anandamath", published in 1882.

About Vande Mataram:

• Bankim Chandra is believed to have composed the song around 1875, in a mixture of Sanskrit and Bengali.
• It was later included in "Anandamath", where it is sung by the sannyasi (ascetic) rebels.
• The song praises the motherland as a goddess, describing her rivers, fields, fruits and strength.
• It was first sung at a session of the Indian National Congress in 1896 (Calcutta), by Rabindranath Tagore.
• It became the rallying cry of the freedom struggle, especially during the Swadeshi Movement (1905), when the movement in Bengal was even called the "Vande Mataram movement".
• On 24 January 1950, the Constituent Assembly adopted the first two stanzas of "Vande Mataram" as the National Song of India, with equal honour and status as the National Anthem, "Jana Gana Mana".

About Anandamath:

• It is a historical novel set against the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in Bengal in the late 18th century, during the Bengal famine of 1770.
• It tells the story of a group of sannyasis (the "santans", or children) who fight against the oppressive rulers.
• It inspired many revolutionaries in the freedom struggle.

About Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay:

• He was born in 1838 in Bengal.
• He was one of the first two graduates of the University of Calcutta (1858).
• He served as a deputy magistrate in the British government.
• He is regarded as one of the greatest Bengali novelists, and a pioneer of the modern Bengali novel.
• He edited the Bengali journal "Bangadarshan".
• He died in 1894.

His other novels:

• "Durgeshnandini" (1865): his first Bengali novel.
• "Kapalkundala" (1866).
• "Devi Chaudhurani" (1884).
• "Krishnakanta's Will" and "Rajmohan's Wife" (his only English novel).

Why not the other options?

• ✗Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and Devi Chaudhurani are his other novels.