Sunday, August 1, 2010

Hemendranath and his children

Hemendranath's life was short.
The Longivity of Debendranath and his family members :
Debendranath--(1817-1905)= 88yrs
1. Dwijendranath -- (1840-1926)=86 yrs
2. Satyendranath--(1842-1923)=81 yrs
3. Hemendranath--(1844-1884)=40 yrs
4. Birendranath--(1845-1915)=70 yrs
5. Soudamini--(1847-1920)=73 yrs
6. Jtotirindranath--(1949-1925)=76 yrs
7. Sukumari--(1850-1864)=14 yrs
8. Punyendranath--(1852-1857=05 yrs
9. Saratkumari--(1854-1920)=66 yrs
10. Swarnakumari--(1856-1948)=76 yrs
11. Barnakumari--(1858-1948)=90 yrs
12. Somendranath  (1859-1922)=63 yrs
13. Rabindranath--(1961-1941)= 80 yrs.
14. Budhendra --(1863-1864)=1 yr.
Probably, the eldest child of Debendranath was a daughter who also didn't survive. The details to be searched.
Children Of Hemendranath
Hemendranath had eleven children. The first threee were sons and the last eight were daughters. The names were;
Hitendranath, Kshitindranath, Ritendranath, these three were the  sons.
Prativa, Pragna, Abhi, manisha, Shovana, Sushama, Sumrita, Sudakshina, these eight were daughters.
Among the sons, Kshitindrnath was well known as official Historian of Adi Brahmo Samaj and Editor of the Tattwabodhini juournal, a duty carried on by grandson Commander Amritomayi Mukherjee I.N. He tirelessly strove to unearth the tagore family records which were removed by Satyendranath Tagore and his daughter Indira Devi from Jorasanko. (  Ref :en.wikipedia.org)
Prativa Devi married Ashutosh Choudhury. Their son Arya studied architecture in England.
Pragnasundari Devi married the most famous Assam author Sahityarahthi Lakshinath Bezbarua (1868-1938), whose father was the physician to the last Kings of Assam.The inventive genius of Bezbarua who was an intellectual of the highest order and a humorist of considerable power.....his song O Mor Apanar Desh is the most popular assamese patriotic song of all times, and the de-facto anthem of Assam. Pragnasundari Devi was a literary phenomenain in her own right, her cook-book Amish O Niramis Ahar (1900, reprinted 1995) was a standard book given to everyBengali bride with her trousseau, and earning her the apellation "India's Mrs Beeton" . From 1897 -1902 Pragnasundari was the editor of the periodical Punya , at first started as the inhouse publication of Thakur-Bari. containing fiction, poetry, and domestic science and cooking. it was later edited by Hemendranath and Rabindranath.