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The Tagore Family’s Contribution towards Santiniketan. Shantiniketan, a town developed by members of the Tagore family, was founded by Debendranath Tagore. The literary maestro, Rabindranath Tagore, penned many of his literary classics in Santiniketan, and his son Rathindranath Tagore was one of the first five students at the Brahmacharya ...
Debendranath Tagore. Debendranath Tagore was a mystic and religious reformer in nineteenth-century Bengal. Under his leadership the Brahmo Samaj Movement was transformed from a small elitist gathering to a popular movement. His Atmajibani (literally, "autobiography") may be considered as one of the earliest spiritual autobiographies in modern ...
Dwarkanath Tagore. ' Prince' Dwarkanath Tagore ( Dwarakanath Ţhakur; 1794–1846) was one of the first Indian industrialists to form an enterprise with British partners. [1] He was the son of Rammoni Tagore, and was given in adoption to Rammoni’s elder brother Ramlochan Tagore. He was the scion of the Tagore family of Calcutta, father of ...
Jun 25, 2024 · In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The son of the religious reformer Debendranath Tagore, he early began to write verses, and, after incomplete studies in England in the late 1870s, he returned to India. There he published several books of poetry in the 1880s and completed Manasi (1890), a ...
Jun 17, 2017 · Debendranath Tagore. A Bicentennial Tribute (1817-2017) Kumkum Bhattacharya. Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:00 AM Last update on: Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:17 AM
Rabindranath was born on 7 May 1861 Calcutta. His father Debendranath Tagore was a leading light in the Brahmo Samaj – a reforming Hindu organisation which sought to promote a monotheistic interpretation of the Upanishads and move away from the rigidity of Hindu Orthodoxy which they felt was holding back India.
Debendranath was the eldest son of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore, who was often referred to as the "Indian Croesus" and was born in Jorasanko, in Calcutta, West Bengal. Being the son of a Prince he was brought up in a lap of luxury surrounded by pomp and power.
