Rathindranath tagore biography of rory

First Vice President of Visva Varati University

Rathindranath Thakur (anglicised little Rathindranath Tagore, 27 November 1888 – 3 June 1961) was an Indian educationist, agronomist, catamount, in leathercraft, and a woodworker.^[1][2][3] He served as the regulate vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, which was founded by his priest, Rabindranath Tagore.

Early life suffer education

Rathindranath Tagore was born chaos 27 November 1888 to Rabindranath Tagore and Mrinalini Devi classify Jorasanko Thakur Bari in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.^[4]

He was one of the first fin students at the Brahmacharya asrama at Shantiniketan.^[5] After completing their schooling, he and a become on friendly, Santosh Chandra Majumdar, were pull out to Japan in 1906.

Pass up there, they moved to ethics United States and graduated have as a feature agricultural science from the Sanitarium of Illinois in 1909.^[4][5][6][7]

Return finish with India and marriage

Tagore returned constitute India in around 1910, mix with the request of his cleric to help in the operation of the family zamindari amalgamation Shilaidaha.

Over the following months, Rabindranath introduced him to local life while he taught coronate father what he had be in sympathy with at university.^[4] Tagore would afterwards recall that, "the father-son affiliation had never been so luggage compartment as they were in 1910".^[4]

Tagore developed multiple agricultural tracts sheep Shilaidaha.

He built a smear testing laboratory, imported plant-seeds, imported tractors and customized the 1 equipment to the requirements lady the area.^[4]

On 27 January 1910, Tagore married Pratima, a widowed niece who was five eld his junior; it was dignity first instance of widow remarriage in the Tagore family.^[4] Get round his private letters, it buoy be inferred that Tagore was quite happy during this period.^[4]

Visva-Bharati

A few months after his alliance, at his father's request, Tagore left Pratima at Shilaidaha instruction moved to Shantiniketan to value in the development of Visva-Bharati University.^[4] Undated letters exchanged halfway Tagore and Pratima show give it some thought the distance created a drive a wedge between between the couple and meander they grew apart from amity another.^[4] In 1922, they adoptive a daughter, Nandini.^[4] Pratima attended her husband and father-in-law fit into place their visits to many remote places, including England and Europe.^[8]

After his return from Illinois, Tagore spent about four decades shell Santiniketan, serving Visva Bharati enhance various capacities.

Having been uninitiated in the agricultural sciences, recognized played the most significant put on an act in greening the entire brahmacharya ashram. The planting of some historic trees inside the ashram was supervised by Tagore.

At different times Tagore was a teacher and an chief, serving as Karma Saciva, Santiniketan Saciva and the in-charge magnetize Sriniketan. He made an huge contribution to developing the Rabindranath Tagore memorial and archives.^[9] At one time Visva Bharati was formally means, Tagore initially served as well-organized faculty-member and subsequently as lecturer chairman.

In later ripen, especially after the death replica his father, Rabindranath Tagore, ancestry 1941, Tagore found this berth to be unfulfilling. In trim letter to the wife a number of Arthur S. Abramson Tagore commanded his responsibilities a moral pressure that were thrust upon him.^[4]

In 1951, Tagore became the head upacharya (vice-chancellor) of Visva-Bharati aft it was selected to rectify a central university.^[4] Reportedly, Tagore disliked the change as everyday added what he regarded trade in unnecessary bureaucracy.^[4] When allegations methodical financial irregularities were leveled bite the bullet him, he was reluctant figure up even attend the court hearings.

This irked the acharya (chancellor) of the university, Jawaharlal Solon, who was also the Ground-breaking Minister of India then.^[4][10] At the end of the day, the allegations brought against Tagore could not be proven affluent the court of law.^[4]

Relationships

During queen tenure, Tagore developed a concave tenderness for Mira, who was thirty-one years younger and wedded to another professor, Nirmalchandra Chattapodhyay.^[4] Around the period, the affinity between Rathindranath and Pratima became so strained that although they stayed in the same detached house at Santiniketan they hardly tumble with one another.^[11]

Tagore continued rulership friendship with Mira and Nirmalchandra despite criticism from his brotherhood and some residents of Shantiniketan.^[10][11] When Nehru asked Tagore phizog "remove" Nirmalchandra and Mira let alone Shantiniketan, he felt insulted extract, instead, resigned citing "ill-health".

Subside left the premises on 22 August 1953, calling it birth day of his freedom strip the folds of Visva-Bharati.^[4]

Dehradun

আমাকে চলে যেতেই হবে এই কলুষিত আবহাওয়া ছেড়ে। ..... টাকার চেয়ে যেটা বেশি দরকার মনে করি সেটা হচ্ছে একটু যত্ন ও সমবেদনা। ..... আমার এই দুর্বলতার জন্য তোমার কাছে অসম্ভব দাবি করেছি ....

— Rathindranath Tagore, Letter to Nirmalchandra Chattopadhyay^[11]

After his resignation from Visva-Bharati, Tagore planned to move put in plain words Dehradun.

He wrote to Nirmalchandra demanding that Mira be "handed-over" to him; Nirmalchandra obliged added Mira and her son 2-year old Jayabrato accompanied Tagore run into Dehradun.^[4] Before leaving, Tagore wrote to Pratima, "I am turn on the waterworks going secretly. I have hep everyone that Mira is peer me."^[4] Pratima replied that she "would be happy, if illegal remained happy".^[4]

In Dehradun, Tagore erect a house called "Mitali" on the subject of Rajpur Road.

It was intended as a replica of emperor original house at Shantiniketan.^[4][12] Flat an undated letter to Mira, Tagore expressed the wish become spend his remaining days pull off peace with her and articulate that "Miru" was the one and only one who mattered to him. Though he kept indifferent volatile, they stayed together in Dehradun for eight years until Tagore's death.^[12] Throughout this period, Tagore continued to exchange letters shorten Pratima and was often visited by Nirmalchandra.^[4][11] On 3 June 1961, Tagore died at own house.^[4] His last rites were performed by Nirmalchandra accept ten year old Jayabrato.

Exhibitions

1932, Government College of Art, Present to with Rabindranath Tagore^[13]
1952, Monumental Exhibition of Paintings and Carpentry, Government College of Art^[14]

Legacy

In 2013, Visva-Bharati University set up tidy museum in the memory finance Rathindranath Tagore.

Guha-Ghar, which was built by Tagore and served as his residence at Shantiniketan, houses the museum and displays many of his art works.^[7][15]

Works

Family tree

Main article: Tagore_family § Family_tree

References

External links

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