In the summer vacation of 1889, Jnanadanandini Devi went to her husband in Solapur with her children and Rabindranath with his family ( i.e, his wife, daughter, Bela, and 4 months old son) accompanied them. He had no establishment of his own and it was not possible for his wife to do any work with two small children, so they had to live with Satyendranath. They stayed there for one month. Rabindranath wrote here a full length, 5 Ankas, lyric-drama, 'Raja O Rani'. Later he said that it came to him in a flood of lyrics, thereby reducing the drama. He wanted to rectify it after some time but that became another creation 'Tapati'. In Park Street it was staged during Puja Holidays when Rabindranath took the role of Raja (King) and Jnanadanandini and Mrinalini took some of the female roles. From Solapur they went to Khadki, Pune, as a guest of Prof Govinda Bittle Kadkad. Khadki was a very famous historical place where the battle of Khadki took place on Nov. 5, 1817 between the forces of the British East India Company and those of Bajirao II, the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. Here Rabindranath went to hear, one day, the lecture delivered by the famous Pandit Ramabai on the 'rights and powers of woman'. The audience was packed with Maharashtrian heros who didn't like the lecture and disrupted it. Rabindranath criticized the attitudes of the 'male members' attending the lecture.
Raja O Rani was staged regularly in the stage of Emarald Public Stage. Dwijendranath, the eldest brother of Rabindranath, after reading the book wrote to Rabi that he had just finished the book and he had not found in his life time such a good book, even in English literatue.Pulin Behari Sen requested readers to read the book.
