The Tagore Family
The Tagores became synonymous with the Bengal Renaissance, producing influential poets, artists, musicians, educators and reformers whose work reshaped Indian literature and culture. Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).
Places, portraits and paper.
Names carried across generations.
- 01Dwarkanath Tagore
- 02Debendranath Tagore
- 03Rabindranath Tagore
- 04Abanindranath Tagore
- · Dwarkanath Tagore
- · Debendranath Tagore
Major events by generation.
- 1794Dwarkanath Tagore born; later a merchant-prince of Calcutta.
- 1861Rabindranath Tagore born at Jorasanko Thakur Bari.
- 1901Santiniketan school founded.
- 1913Rabindranath wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1921Visva-Bharati University founded at Santiniketan.
- 1941Rabindranath Tagore passes at Jorasanko.
Places associated with the family.
- Jorasanko Thakur Bari, KolkataHeritage site
- Visva-Bharati, SantiniketanHeritage site
- Rabindra BhavanHeritage site
Biographies of prominent descendants.
- Dwarkanath TagoreMerchant, reformer
- Debendranath TagoreBrahmo Samaj leader
- Rabindranath TagoreNobel laureate, polymath
- Abanindranath TagoreBengal school of art
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