Marriage of first daughter at 15 and the second at the age of 10.

Madhurilata, first daughter of Rabindranath, was born on 25 October 1886 and was  married on 15 June 1901, i.e., when she was 15 years and his second daughter Renuka was born on 23 January 1891 and was married on 17 July 1901 (within one month of the marriage of his elder daughter) when she was 10 years old. Other than becoming a world famous poet Rabindranath had two great qualities. He was, amongst his all brothers, a true heir of his father relating to worldly affairs, and he was an efficient negotiator in domestic affairs. He arranged the marraige of his elder daughter with a son of the poet Biharilal Chakraborty after  long negotiation  via Priya Nath Sen, the neighbour of Biharilal Chakraborty, the details of which had been unearthed by Prasanta Prasanta Kumar Paul in his book "Rabijibani".  After long negotiation the marriage of Madhurilata was settled with a dowry of Rs. 10,000.00 only.    

The initial demand from the groom's side was for a dowry of Rs.20,000.  Rabindranath returned to  for final round of talks but on hearing their demand and managed to halve the amount.

(From left) Mira, Rathindra, Rabindranath, Daughter-in-law (Pratima), and Madhurilata.

Within one month of the marriage of the eldest daughter, Madhurilata, the second daughter Renuka or Rani was married to Satyendranath Bhattacharya, an LMS  passed Doctor. After his marriage Satyendranath was sent to  America for studying Homeopathy.

At the time of her marriage, Bela (Madhurilata) was 15 years old and Renuka was 10 years. Since Renuka was so young, there was no ceremony for 'bed of flowers' (phulsajya, in such cases the custom was to have second marriage after the girl had attained womanhood.)
It could be mentioned here that Rabindranath himself was against the child marriage. But he was unable to implement it in his family life. He said himself that 'the poet was not as he appeared in his writings'.
Child marriage was the rule in Tagore's family. Only exceptions were Indira Devi and Sarala Devi, because their fathers lived outside the perview of Jorasanko. The other members of Tagore family were dependent on Maharshi Devendranath.
After marriage, Bela went to Muzaffarpur to live with her husband, Saratchandra and Renuka remained with her parents till she attained womanhood and she had a second marriage after that.

Family of Rabindranath

Rabindranath and Bangadarshan

Rabindranath, in 1901, took the charge of editing Bangadarshan, a monthly literary journal founded in 1872 by Bankimchandra (1838-1894), who also served as editor up to April 1876 and was its main contributor.
The financial responsibility was undertaken by Sailesh Chandra Majumdar, brother of Srish Chandra, who opened  a publishing agency in the name of 'Majumdar Agency'. He also took the responsibility of publishing many books of Rabindranath. A club known as  Alochana Sabha,  comprising of literary persons was organised with the publishing agency as  its center. Many essays written by Rabindranath was first read there. Many such organizations started functioning from this place.
Rabindranath created a novel, 'Chokher Bali', for Bangadarshan. A few days earlier he had started writing a story named Binodini. He converted this story to Chokher Bali for Bangadarshan. Rabindranath had until that time focused on writing short stories and 'Nashtanir' was among one his last stories. His next project was a novel with a revolutionary plot.
'Bishbriksha', when written by Bankimchandra, had been a new experience for Bengali readers.  In Chokher Bali, they first encountered a novel with psycho-analysis.  In the mean time Rabindranath enunciated the relation between country and god in the kabyagrantha, Naibedya.  He wanted to express the same idea in prose in Bangadarshan. Thus he wrote, "when India was great, she was great in all respects-in vigor and wealth, in knowledge and religion, in national and international policies."

1901, Rabindranath at 40

At the age of forty Rabindranath started writing poetry later to be published as 'Naibedya'.
Sushitala or Sushi, the widow of Balendranath, was staying at her father's residence in Allahabad. She had been brought home by her mother after the death of Balendranath. An attempt was made from her paternal house to get her married again. Learning this, Rabindranath was sent to Allahabad by Maharshi to fetch Sushi from her paternal house. The other two branches of Brahmo Samaj were in favor of arranging marriage of widows but the Adi-Brahmo Samaj to which Maharshi belonged was against widow marriage. It might be mentioned here that after the death of Renuka (second daughter of Rabindranath) Rabindranath arranged the marriage of his son-in-law with an widow and got Rathindra married with a child-widow Pratima . The mother of late Balendranath wrote that she got her daughter-in-law, Sahana, admitted to an English School so that she might get solace in education. Peace of mind might be regained if one got real education.
Ramananda Chattopadhyaya was the Principal of Allahabad Kayastha College. Rabindranath wanted to meet him. Two influential magazines were  published at that time, part from Bangadarshan, the other was  'Prabasi' edited by Ramananda Chattopadhyaya.

He wrote many poems for 'Naibedya', essays and the novel  'Chokher Bali' for Bangadarshan.
Madhurilata, the first daughter of Rabindranath, was married with advocate Saratchandra of Mazaffarpur and son of poet Biharilal Chakraborty, the inspiration of Rabindranath in his early age.  Saratchandra had to adopt Bahmmo religion to get married with Madhurilata according to the custom of Tagore family. The marriage was negotiated by Priyanath Sen.
Rabindranath was given felicitation at the Mukherjee Seminary in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, when he went there with his daughter to leave her at her husband's place.. This was the first felicitation given to him. He started Residential School at Santiniketan with five students and five teachers, namely, Brahmmabandhab, Rebachand, Jagadananda Roy, Sibdhan Bidyarnab, and Lorence.

Rabindranath and Jagadish Chandra (contd-2)

"In a large forest the trees shed their dry leaves one by one in profusion thus making the soil underneath fertile. In a country where there is continuous research in science, knowledge of it in fragmentary bits is being spread constantly. This is how one's heart's soil is quickened, becoming fertile with an alive feeling in science.It is the loss of it that has left our mind unscientific . We feel the impoverishment not only in our education , but also in the field of our occupation where we are bowed with frustration." wrote Rabindranath Tagore titled "Our Universe".
Rabindranath gave up the responsibility of editing "Bharati" and became free for tme being as he had done in the cases of  "Balaka' and "Sadhana". Rabindranath invited Jagadish Chandra Bose to come to Shilaidah. Jagadish Chandra went to Shilaidah sometime in April, 1899. Jagadish Chandra brought a few seeds from Shilaidah, just for curiosity's sake. After coming back home Jagadish Chandra wrote to Rabindranath that butterfly did not come out. He agian went to Shilaidah on 10 March 1900. He came back and wrote to Rabindranath that it was full moon when he returned home and asked Rabindranath to send him his written short stories.
Patrick Geddes wrote that once on receiving an invitation from the poet to stay with him at his house at Shilaidah on the river Padma, Bose accepted it with the demand of the fullest and highest hospitality his friend could render him - that of a new  story to be written every day and read to him every evening.
Jagadish Chandra had close relation with the children of Tagore.
Rabindranath was younger to Jagadish Chandra by 3 years but he felt pride for the affection he got from him.
Sangeet Samaj would stage 'Bisarjan' at the reception of Maharaja of Tripura on16 Dec 1901. Rabindranath received a letter written by Jagadish Chandra dated 2nd Nov 1901 intimating him the progress of his research work in England. Rabindranath was much pleased to know the love and respect Jagadish Chandra possessed for the country. He also came to learn that it would have been better for Jagadish Chandra if he could stay some few days more there. Rabindranth arranged financial aid to Jagadish Chandra from Maharaja of Tripura.

Rabindranath and Jagadishchandra (contd-1)

The relation between Rabindranath and Jagadishchandra Bose was well expressed in the book of Selected Letters and the Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore addressed to Jagadish Chandra Bose on two occasions.  Prasanta Kumar Pal, in his book 'Rabijibani' (p.148-149) wrote that  Jagadishchndra recorded by phonograph the Brahmasangeet sung by Rabindranath at Presidency College in 1891 but the relation between Rabindranath and Jagadishchandra  became close from this time (from 1897). The biographer of Jagadish Chandra Bose, Patrick Geddes, described in his book : 'on the occasion of Bose's return (April 1897) from his successful visit in Europe in 1896, Tagore called to congratulate him and, not finding him at home, left on his work table a great blossom of magnolia, as a fitting and characteristic message of regard. Since that tme the two were increasingly together, each complementing and thereby widening and deepening the other's characteristic outlook on nature and life. Rabindranath himself recognised this.  On 2 November 1900, he wrote from London that though Jagadishchandra was practically an unknown to him three years ago, the latter's affection had made it impossible for Rabindranath not to reciprocate.                                                                                                  

Rabindranath and Jagadish Chandra Bose

(From top left) C.V.Raman, Meghnad Saha, Homi Bhaba, J.C.Bose, Srinivasa, Ramanujan, S.Chandra Sekhar, Hargobind Khorana, S.N.Bose, Jayanta Narlikar, E.c.George Sudarshan. Bose and Patents: Bose was not interested in patenting his invention. In his friday evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, London, he made public his construction of the coherer. Thus the electric engineer expressed "surprise that no secret was at anytime made as to its construction, so that it has been open to all the world to adopt it for practical and possibly money making purposes."  Bose declined an offer from a wireless apparatus manufacturer for signing a remunerative agreement. One of Bose's American friends, Sara Chapman Bull, succeeded in persuading him to file a patent application on 30 September 1901 and it was granted as US patent 755840 on 29 march 1904.

Speaking in NewDelhi in August 2006, at a seminar titled Owning the Future:Ideas and The Role in the Digital age, Dr. V.S.Ramamurthy, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT, Delhi, stressed the attitude of Bose towards patents: "His reluctance to any form of patenting is well known. It was contained in his letter to (Indian Nobel Laureate) Rabindranath Tagore dated 17 May 1901 from London. It was not that Sir Jagadish Chandra was unaware of patents and its advantages. He was the first Indian to get a US Patent ( No:755840) in 1904. And Sir Jagadish was not alone in his avowed reluctance to patenting. Roentgen, Pierre, Curie and others also chose the path of no patenting on moral grounds."  Bose also recorded his attitude towards patents in his inaugural lecture at the foundation of the Bose Institute on 30 November 1917.

Rabindranath as an Acharya in Shantiniketan

At the Paush Utsab on 31 October 1899, Rabindranath delivered a lecture on Upanishad Brahma. Satyendranath Tagore inaugurated the building of the Brahmabidyalaya, proposed by Balendranath, by opening the door and said in his inaugural speech that  the Brahmabidyalaya was established there, in a solitary place, to gather Brahmabidya. (This building is now converted to the central Library of Vishwa Bharati.)
The joint business of Balendranath, Surendranath and Rabindranath ended up making major losses and
the loss had to be made up either by borrowing money from other sources or waiting till the loss was made up by the profit it could earn. But Rabindranath did not want to wait. He wanted to close immediately the chapter of his failure.  His nature was to suppress defects by any means. He borrowed money from his friend Taraknath Palit and repaid the loan with the amount received by him from the lecture he delivered in America in 1917.

The lecture , on Upanishad Brahma, of Rabindranath delivered at Shantiniketan on Paush Utsab in 1899 was translated in English "The God of the Upanishad". Probably the translation was done by Satyendranath Tagore.   

School at Shilaidah, Pre-Shantiniketan

Rabindranath established his first school at Kuthibadi, Shilaidah for his children. He appointed an Englishman, Allen Lorence,  as an English teacher. Jagadanada Roy came as a teacher of Mathematics, a staff of the Tagore Estate. As a Sanskrit teacher, Shibdhan Bidyarnab was appointed. Rabindranath himself began to spend much time educating his children. Rabindranath's income from his estate was improving. He started writing 'Kanika', as meaningful as Chanakya Slok. In 1899, he started writing story in poetry, Katha O Kahini.Sometimes he wrote in prose also.
The young section of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad was now in favour of holding their activities in a separate building and not in Sova Bazar Rajbadi. Ultimately they won with the vote of Rabindranath. Manindra Chandra Nandi gifted a plot of land at Lower Circular Road to the Parishad. Rabindranath was among the list of receivers.

( this is a very rare picture )LUNCH AT THE 'Kuthibari' at Shilaidaha with family members. Tagore's wife and children moved to Shilaidaha in 1899, and the family lived there until Tagore moved to Santiniketan to found his school in 1901.

 — withShamima Jhumur, Tasmina Tuli, Manatosh Suter,Rony Syed Zakir Ahmed, Jayanta Ghosh, Wahid Pretom, Rumi Noman and Shamim Shago

Rabindranath brought his family to Shilaidah.

Jorasanko was full of families of the relatives of the Tagore family. Each family had its own ideas about the education of their wards. Rabindranath did not like the teaching methods of the then Indian schools. His first daughter Bela was then 11 years old, Rathindranath was 9, Renuka 7, Mira 4, and Shamindra 1. Hence at least three of them were to be admitted in Schools. Rabindranath brought all of them and his wife to Shilaidah and began to lead a family life. He wrote in his letter that he was eager to bring them to the lonely village from the luxurious building of Jorasanko. He also wrote a poem. He then started a school, the first one in his life, in his home. 
A school building was started in Shantiniketan  according to the plan of Balendranath Tagore with the intention of starting a Center for Culture of Brahma Bidya.
After three years Rabindranath began his residential School there in the name of 'Brahmacharyarshram'.
Balendranath died on 22 August 1899, after severe struggle against his ailment at the age of 30 years.                                            

Rabindranath and his wife Mrinalini

In June1899, Rabindranath went to Shilaidah, keeping his wife and children in Jorasanko. The family at Jorasanko was not only large in numbers but also beset by the problems of contradictory interests of varying personalities. Rabindranath's wife Mrinalini was buffeted by these varying interests. She wrote a letter to Rabindranath expressing her grievances. On the same day Rabindranath gave the reply in a long letter.
The letter explained the relation between the two persons and one's attitude towards the other. At first he consoled her and advised her to shed the tension, try to adjust and remain calm. He wrote that he himself was reconciled to the fact that that success did not come always. He said that if Mrinalini could do same, then both of them would live peacefully. Though he knew that Mrinalini was much younger and her experience limited, she was calm and patient. Therefore, she could protect herself from all sorts of hazards.  He continued to request her not to misunderstand him for giving her advice, which he did with great respect and love.

Rabindranath and Nationalism

Religion and spiritualism, patriotism and nationalism, devotion to art and literature -these three qualities of Tagore family had great effect on the mind of Rabindranath since his boyhood days.
The mutiny of the Indian army in 1857 (First war of independence, according to Marx), defeat of the black bill of Lytton in 1850, and Revolt of the indigo cultivators in 1860 paved the way of the growth of nationalism amongst Indian intellectuals. Moreover, there were other socio-economic and political reasons behind this awakenning.
In the second half of the 19th century, British imperialism had got a strong hold on the soil of India. Previously the British began to collect money and raw material from India and
import finished goods from Great Britain. But, during the first half of the 19th century, labour unrest in Britain resulted in a shift of capital to India for greater profit. They started industries, railways and other machineries for exploitation of the resources of Great India to convert it to British India.

The British imported capital from their own country and in the second half of the 19th century constructed the railways, jute mills, cotton mills and began to exploit the Indian people. This gave rise to a nationalist movement.  Surendranath Banerjee, Rajnarayan Basu, Anandamohan Basu, Dwarakanath Ganguly, Sibnath Shashtry, Bankimchandra, Nabinchandra, Hemchandra, Monamohan Basu, Nabagopal Mitra, and Dwijendranath, Ganendranath, Satyendranath, and Jyotirindranath of the Tagore family participated in the movement.
Gradually several organisations were formed. British Indian Association was formed in 1851, Indian League was formed in 1875, and Indian Association in 1876. These were the first political organisations. Though these organisations were formed by the rich and the affluent, they placed many demands to the British authorities.

Rabindranath and Bharati (contd-2)

The second essay published in ' Prasanga Katha' of Bharati was a discussion on 'Aitihasik Jatkinchit' written by Akshoy Kumar Moitra.  Akshoy Babu wrote in his article that the real history of our country was not written because people were not conscious about its history. He gave a solution  of this problem. He prescribed three medicines for its remedy: the coordinated effort of the littérateurs, the sympathy and support of the affluent society, and the help of the British. Rabindranath was not satisfied with the idea expressed by his friend Akshoy Babu and criticised him as he had done Mahendralal Sarker. Rabindranath concluded by saying that better results cannot be attained by meetings only but by one's talent. He also enunciated the purpose of writing history. He was of the opinion that the past could not be expressed by only describing the incidents that happened, how it appeared to people at that time should also be considered and hence the historical truth would be achieved by the amalgamation of the past incidence with the tradition of the local people.  
After becoming editor,  Rabindranath requested Ramendra Sundar Tribedi to send an article for Bharati. In reply Ramendra Sundar sent him a book on Geography meant for school students which was excellent.
In Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Rabindranath and Ramendra Sundar Tribedi were complementary to each other.

Rabindranath and Bharati (contd-1)

The section, named Alochana in 'Sadhana' was renamed as Prasanga Katha in 'Bharati'. Two things were discussed in Bharati. First, Dr. Mahendra Lal Sarker (1833-1904) founded the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science in 1876. Second, that it was created at the cost of  public money.  Mahendralal criticised the indifferent attitude of the people at the Annual General meeting of the Association Presided over by the then Lt. Governor Mackenzie. Rabindranath did not agree and he was of opinion that  self-respect of the people of the country was being wounded at this criticism in front of a foreighner. He wrote in return that it was better to construct the roads for movement without complaining to the higher authorities. He suggested to teach science in mother tongue so that it would be accessible to the ordinary people. He suggested that the Association for Cultivation of Science should work together with the department of Scientific terminology of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad to publish books for science in Bengali.The greatest teacher of Philology, Dr. Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyaya, said about the contribution of Rabindranath to the study of Philology that he was "the first Bengali with a scientific insight to the problems of the language; and it was flattering to the votaries of Philology to find in one who was the greatest writer in the language, and a great poet and seer for all time, a keen philologist as well, distinguished alike by an assiduous enquiry into the facts of the language and by a scholarly appreciation of the methods and findings of the modern western philologist."

Rabindranath and 'Bharati'

Rabindranath Tagore with eminent Bengali writers.
Sitting: From right- Satyendranath Dutta, Jatindramohan Bagchi, Karunanidhan Bandopadhyaya.
Standing : from right- Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya, Manilal Gangopadhyaya, Dwijendra Narayan Bagchi, Charuchandra Bandopadhyaya.
( This picture was taken in 1912 immediately before a trip to England. He got the Nobel Prize in 1913.)
In 1898 (Baishakh 1305) Rabindranath took the responsibility of Bharati.
In 1877, when Rabindranath was 16 years old, Jyotirindranath made Dwijendranath the editor of Bharati and published it. The main writers of the magazine were the two poets Rabindranath and Akshoy Choudhury. Practically speaking, Rabindranath was editing the magazine after returning from England. But the sudden death of Kadambari Devi almost led to the closure of Bharati. At this critical stage, Swarnakumari Devi took the responsibility of editing the magazine and saved the magazine from untimely death. She successfully conducted her duties upto 1894 (Chaitra 1301) but due to her illness, her elder daughter Hiranmoyee Devi had taken over the responsibility of editting the magazine.T She took the help of her youngest sister Sarala Devi, a Mysore resident. Rabindranath was requested by Hiranmoyee Devi to take charge but he was looking after the magazine 'Sadhana' at that time. Hironmoyee wrote that they (two sisters) were in charge of the magazine for three years. "Even stones show wear and tear if water is poured on it continuously." For three years, Hironmoyee was asking her Uncle (Rabimama) to take charge. At last he agreed to take over charge. She continued to do the other jobs excepting the editing.

Rabindranath at 37

To meet the expenses of the court case of Tilak, Rabindranath, along with Hirendranath Datta and Subodh Chandra Mallik, collected money and sent it to Pune.  Plague, an epidemic disease, was spreading  in Calcutta. In the same year Government placed the Sedition Bill in the Parliament and passed it. Govt. also passed the Vernacular Press Act to suppress the right to speak   A committee of the local papers, therefore, met secretly and then organised a formal meeting at the Town Hall, where Rabindranath, in his lecture against the suppression of the right to speak ( Kantharodh), asked that as many as possible newspapers should be published until the expression of public view became free; the mother land could not remain underground.
Rabindranath became Editor of Bharati.
The ritual of the sacred thread of Rathindranath was performed in Shantiniketan.
In the provincial Conference of Congress held at Dacca, Rabindranath read an essay in Bengali.
From 1884 to 1896, Rabindranath wrote several Kabya-Natya. This was a new invention of Rabindranath. He wrote- 'Prakritir Pratishodh' in 1884, Chitrangada in !891, 'Biday Abhishap' in 1894, and 'Malini' in 1896. Then he wrote- 'Gandharir Abedan', 'Sati', 'Narakbas', 'Lakshir Pariksha' etc.

Rabindranath at the age of 36

(Rabindranath with his family)
Rabindranath constructed 11 songs for Maghutsab of Adi Brahmo Samaj. "Baikunther Khata" was staged by ' 'Khamkheyali Sabha' where Rabindranath took the role of Kedar Babu.
He  wrote Dusamay,  started a new Kabyagrantha, Kalpana, and went to Shantiniketan. There he wrote Bhrashta Lagna.
Bangiya Pradeshik Sammelan was held at Natore. The Zamindar of Natore, Maharaja Jagadindranath, was the convener. Many respected persons and the young staff of Thakur Bari attended. At the end of 19th century, the political situation was volatile. At that time, the meeting was conducted in English, but Rabindranath was against this system. He, along with his young group, wanted that the medium should be Bengali . He wrote that when in consultation with Jagadindranath they wanted to introduce Bengali as a medium, W.C.Banerjee, the Founder President of the Congress, and other elderly Congress leaders rebuked them.  Rabindranath gave a strong reply at the closing session on the second day.    Satyendranath Tagore was elected to preside over the meeting. But luck was against them. The plan was aborted due to the earth quake the next day.
The year 1897 was packed with important incidents.
Shivaji Utsab was held at Pune, two government officers died of the Plague. Bal gangadhar Tilak was arrested.
Rabindranath again came to Shilaidah and was writing poems for Kalpana.
Jagadish Chandra Bose successfully completed his research at the Royal  Society of London. To commemorate the occasion Rabindranath wrote Pradip. He wrote many poems and songs while going to North Bengal by boat.  He started another Kabyagrantha, namely Kahini, and read Gandharir Abedan in Cacutta University Institute Hall.  

Rabindranath at 35, Youngest son Shamindranah was born

The song ,"Paadapraante raakha Sebake" was constructed by Rabindranath for Magha Utsab. There were two marriages in Tagore family-- of Balendranath and of Nalini, daughter of Dwipendranath. Rabindranath dedicated a small book, titled River, to Balendranath on the occasion of his marriage and wrote a poem for Chitra," Mor Ange ange jeno aaji basanta uday", a poem,  Jiban Debata and the last poetry of Chitra, Sindhu Pare.
The most important incident was the birth of the youngest son of Rabindranath , Shamindranath.
12th session of Congress was held at Beadon Square under the presidentship of  Rahimutulla Md Siani. Rabindranath sung Bandemaataram set to his own tune. The guests of the conference were invited  at Jorasanko where Rabidranath sung Ayi Bhubanamana Mohini.
He wrote a drama, "Baikunther Khata" at the request one of his friends.and within one month of its publication he wrote "Panchabhuter Diary". There is no such essay in Bengali even at present. Only it reminds us the book of the writer Wendell Holmes of America who wrote in his essay,  namely, 'Poet at the breakfast table book.'

Rabindranath now at 34

(L to R) Mira, Rathindra. Rabindranath, wife of Rathindranath, Bela.
 Last year, Mira, youngest daughter of Rabindranath was born.

The last issue (as a joint issue of Ashwin and Kartik) of the magazine Sadhana was published. After publishing the magazine Rabindranath heaved a sigh of relief as he was overburdened with responsibilities of his Zamindari and other activities.He was writing poems for 'Chitra'. He wrote several marvellous poetry for Chitra, namely, Purnima,Urbashi, Bijayini, Swarga Hote Biday. Chitra was published this year.
During summer, Rabindranath went to Patisar and stayed on a boat. It was too hot and  the windows had to be kept closed but the outside was visible through the window-slits.
Rabindraqnath was a poet of nature, human being was secondary to him. But while he was writing 'Chaitali', he explored the relationship between man and nature. He celebrated the victory of the human spirit in Chaitali. In his Short Stories (Galpaguchcha) he said the same.
In the meantime he was called for the partition of the Tagore estate. Unitl then, the properties of his dead brother, Girindranath, and his dead son, Hemendranath, had been managed along with the property of Debendranath. When his youngest son and two of his grand-sons entered a new business, Debendranath was unwilling to spread the risk to the estates of Girindranath and Gaganendranath.
After the partition, Shahjadpur Pargana of Pabna Diistrict went to Girindranath and the Zamindari in Cuttak to Gaganendranath. The process of partition was not entirely smooth and Rabndranath was greatly disturbed.
Hr wrote Malini Kabya Grantha while he was in Orissa.
His nephew Satyaprasad published his two books, Malini and Chaitali.