Debendranath Tagore

Debendranath Tagore (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj (“Society of Brahma,” also translated as “Society of God”). He was the founder in 1848 of the Brahmo religion, which today is synonymous with Brahmoism. Born in Shilaidaha, his father was the industrialist Dwarkanath Tagore.

Debendranath Tagore
Portrait of Debendranath Tagore
Born(1817-05-15)15 May 1817
Calcutta, Bengal, Bengal Presidency[1] (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died19 January 1905(1905-01-19) (aged 87)
Calcutta, Bengal, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
NationalityBritish Indian
OccupationReligious reformer
MovementBengal Renaissance
Spouse(s)Sarada Devi
Children14, including Satyendranath Tagore, Hemendranath Tagore, Jyotirindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Swarnakumari Tagore

Family history
See also: Tagore family

The original surname of the Tagores was Kushari. They were Rarhi Brahmins and originally belonged to a village named Kush in the district named Burdwan in West Bengal. The biographer of Rabindranath Tagore, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya wrote in the first volume of his book Rabindrajibani O Rabindra Sahitya Prabeshika that,

The Kusharis were the descendants of Deen Kushari, the son of Bhatta Narayana; Deen was granted a village named Kush (in Burdwan zilla) by Maharaja Kshitisura, he became its chief and came to be known as Kushari.[2][3][4][5]

Thakur Bari (House of Tagores)

Debendranath Tagore was born to the Tagore family in Jorasanko, popularly known as Jorasanko Thakur Bari in North-western Kolkata, which was later converted into a campus of the Rabindra Bharati University. The Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history,[6] has been one of the leading families of Calcutta, and is regarded as a key influence during the Bengal Renaissance.[6] The family has produced several persons who have contributed substantially in the fields of business, social and religious reformation, literature, art and music.[6][7]

Upasana Griha, Prayer Hall, built by Debendranath Tagore in 1863, Santiniketan.

References
  1. Chaudhuri, Narayan (2010) [1973]. Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. Makers of Indian Literature (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 11. ISBN 978-81-260-3010-1.
  2. Mukhopadhyaya, Prabhatkumar, Rabindrajibani o Rabindra Sahitya Prabeshak, 1985, Visva Bharati, p 3
  3. On the edges of time (New ed.) (December 1978), Tagore, Rathindranath, Greenwood Press. p. 2, ISBN 978-0313207600
  4. Timeless Genius, Mukherjee, Mani Shankar, Pravasi Bharatiya(May 2010), p. 89, 90
  5. Rabindranath Tagore : Poet And Dramatist(1948), Thompson, Edward, Oxford University Press. p. 13
  6. Deb, Chitra, pp 64–65.
  7. "The Tagores and Society". Rabindra Baharati University. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
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