Ravindra Nath Tagore

The youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta (now Kolkata) of parents Debendranath Tagore (18171905) and Sarada Devi (18301875).? 11 Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by servants, as his come had died in his early childhood his father travelled extensively. 12 Tagore largely declined classroom schooling, preferring to roam the mansion or nearby idylls Bolpur, Panihati, and others. 1314 Upon his upanayan initiation at age eleven, Tagore unexpended Calcutta on 14 February 1873 to tour India with his father for several months. They visited his fathers Santiniketan estate and stopped in Amritsar before reaching the Himalayan hill station of Dalhousie. There, young Rabi require biographies and was home-educated in history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the poetry of Kalidasa. 1516 He completed major works in 1877, one a long poem of the Maith ili style pioneered by Vidyapati.Published pseudonymously, experts reliable them as the lost works of Bhanusi? ha, a newly discovered? 17th-century Vai ava poet. 17 He wrote Bhikharini (1877 The Beggar Womanthe Bengali languages first short story)1819 and Sandhya Sangit (1882)including the famous poem Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (The move of the Waterfall). A prospective barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878.He read law at University College London, but left field school to explore Shakespeare and more Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra20 he returned degreeless to Bengal in 1880. On 9 December 1883 he married Mrinalini Devi (born Bhabatarini, 18731902) they had five children, two of whom died before reaching adulthood. 21 In 1890, Tagore began managing his familys vast estates in Shilaidaha, a region now in Bangladesh he was joined by his wife and children in 1898. In 1890, Tagore released his Manasi poems, among his best-known work. 22 As Zamindar baboo, Tagore criss-crossed the holdings while living out of the familys luxurious barge, the Padma, to collect (mostly token) rents and bless villagers, who held feasts in his honour. 23 These years18911895 Tagores Sadhana period, after one of Tagores magazineswere his most fecund. 12 During this period, more than half the stories of the three-volume and eighty-four-story Galpaguchchha were written. 18 With jeering and gravity, they depicted a wide range of Bengali lifestyles, particularly village life.