Kantharodh (The Throttled) at a public meeting in Calcutta.
1890: Assigned the job of managing the Tagore Estate at Silaidah (now in Bangladesh).
1899: Moved to Santiniketan with his wife and children.
1891: Birth of second daughter Renuka.
1901: Revived Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s monthly journal, Bangadarshan. Established a school for children called the brahmacharyashrama on the model of ancient Indian forest school at Santiniketan with approval of his father. Wrote the poems of Naivedya.
1892: Advocated education in mother tongue, rather than in English. He criticized the prevalent system of English education in India in his essay Sikhshar Herfer (Vagaries of Education). Sarada Devi
Maharshi Debendranath Tagore
1861: Rabindranath Tagore the fourteenth child of his parents Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi born at Jorasanko, Calcutta on the 7th of May.
‘Hindumelar Upohar’ (The gift of the Hindumela) at the Hindu Mela, which is considered to be his first public appearance.
1863: Tagore’s father bought seven acres of barren land from the zamindars of Raipur, Birbhum, West Bengal which later came to be known as Santiniketan. 1873: Traveled to the Western Himalayas with his father. On their way to the Dalhousie Hills, Rabindranath stayed at Santiniketan for the first time with the Maharshi. This is where he wrote his first drama Prithvirajer Parajay (The Defeat of Prithviraj). Unfortunately no copy of this work exists. 1874: First publication of his poem Abhilasha in Tattwabodhini Patrika.
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1895: He started a Swadeshi store in Calcutta for the promotion of indigenous goods and business among the youth of Bengal, and a jute-pressing factory in Kushtia, the district
Tagore with daughter Madhurilata and son Rathindranath
town adjacent to their estate in East Bengal.
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1902: Mrinalini Devi, his wife, died. 1903: His second daughter, Renuka, expired. 1903-1904: He started taking serious interest in the political problems of the country and wrote his seminal essay ‘Swadeshi Samaj’ (Our State and Society, 1904).
1896: Birth of youngest son Samindranath. 1898: Sedition Bill passed; arrest of Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Tagore read his paper
1879: First visit to London. 1880: Returned to India without completing his formal course of study. His first book Sandhya Sangit (Evening Songs) was published.
Tagore with Mrinalini Devi
Padma boat at Silaidah (now in Bangladesh)
1881: Wrote his first musical drama Valmiki Pratibha. 1883: Married to Mrinalini Devi. 1884: Sister-in-law Kadambari Devi committed suicide. 1886: Birth of first child, Madhurilata.
1875: Death of his mother. Recited his own patriotic poem INDIA PERSPECTIVES
1878: Stayed with his elder brother Satyendranath Tagore in Ahmedabad just before his departure for his studies at the University College of London as a student of Law.
1894: Birth of youngest daughter Mira. Elected VicePresident of Academy of Bengali Letters and became the editor of Sadhana, the new family journal of the Tagore family.
1888: Birth of elder son Rathindranath. INDIA PERSPECTIVES
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