The school at Shantiniketan was not performing well. This was known from an undated letter written by Rabindranath to Basanta Kumar Gupta. He wrote that he had talks with his father about the school. He was anxious about the guests who wanted stay at Shantiniketan because the school was occupying most of the space on the ground floor and upstairs and Debendranath did not like it. It was decided that very soon more teachers would be coming. Dwipendranath (eldest son of Dwijendranath) would join them soon and he might be annoyed to see the scarcity of accomodation. Dwipendranath was one of the member of the board of trustees of Shantiniketan. But as per convention none in the Tagore family could stay for long with his family in Shantiniketan, which Rabindranath did. There was some unpleasantness with Dwipendranath, which he mentioned in a letter. At first there were indirect references, but after some time he expressed it directly.
For this reason Rabinfranath had to purchase land outside the boundary of the trust's jurisdiction.
