Rabindranath in the line of his ancestors for wealth but failed

Sudhindranath, the fourth son of Dwijendranath and ex-editor of Sadhana, was married to Charubala Devi, on 25 May 1894. Rabindranath wrote on that day the song, 'Bajilo Kaharo Bina'. After passing B.L. Exam. Sudhindranath began to practice in Court. Rabindranath wrote to Pramatha Choudhury, in England at that time, informing him that Sudhi had been practicing literature for some time, now he was practicing law.
Surendranath (1872-1940), son of Satyendranath, and Balendranath (1870-1899), son of Birendranath, attained adulthood. They wanted to go into business. Rabindranath also joined their adventurous path. Rabindranath wrote in a letter  that he had read only in books the greatness of work, but now he understood that only in work a man could find satisfaction in his life.
In the previous year, Surendranath drew a cartoon picture , titled 'Ekannabarti Bipul Paribar' and explained that in such a family none took any initiative of earning one's livelihood. But it was found that some amongst them were trying to find their own job. Balendranath followed in this trajectory. From the cash book of Debendranath it was known that Rs 1000.00 only was given to Balendranath for his business ,which marked the beginning of Tagore & amp; Comp;  Surendranath, son of Satyendranath, also joined the project. Rabindranath  became one of the partners. The Tagore &Company started several businesses, such as buying and selling the husk of cereals, forward trading in jute, installing a machine for making juice of sugar cane. But the company made huge losses. The burden of the loss fell on the shoulder of Rabindranath.
He went to Simla where Satyendranath was taking rest for one year.

Rabindranath was a good promoter of folk songs

In September, 1994, Rabindranath went to Ranaghat as a guest of Nabinchandra Sen and wrote a story, titled "Megh O Roudra". In Chaitanya Library, he read an essay "Chele Bhulano Chara". He was a good promoter of folk songs of Bengal.
He went to Bolpur stayed there for sometime and wrote a poetry "Antarjami". On the fourth year Rabindranath took the responsibility of editing the magazine, "Sadhana". from Sudhindranath.
As usual Rabindranath took the responsibility seriously. He began to write short stories, essays, on current issues etc. He wrote a number of critical essays on literature.  The  were Criticisms of Books was started by Bankimchandra in "Bangadarshan". Book reviews??  Rabindranath started his career writing essays criticising Books in the magazine, 'Gnanankur'. This time the standard of criticism should be at par with the standard of western literature.
Within these four years, as part of his busy routine, Rabindranath wrote so many articles, essays, poems, Short Stories etc that the collection could take the form of a book. The short stories, Panchabhuter Diary written by him in this period becale classics.
He wrote 3 volumes of books containing 87 short stories, of this 36 short stories were published in Sadhana.
But the task of fulfilling the duty of editor of Sadhana  was gradually becoming difficult.

Rabindranath against the behavior of Englishman towards Indians

When Rabindranath was studying in the class of Henry Morle in London University, he wrote an essay in English supporting the article written by Satyendranath Tagore titled, "Bharatbarshiya Ingraj".  When he went to England for the second time he wrote a diary where he discussed the attitude of the English towards Indians and when he went to Cuttak and Puri in Orissa, he expressed his sentiment in a letter written to Indira, protesting  the behavior of the Principal Mr. Haloard  and Magistrate of Puri about Indians. He also criticised severely the Bengalees who were flatterers of English man. All these stray thoughts took shape in his article titled,  'Ingrej and Indians'. This article he read in a meeting organised by Chaitanya Library and Beadon Square Literary Club in the hall of General Assembly Institution, presided by Bankimchandra.
He wrote in a letter to Pramatha Choudhury that he had wanted to present the essay to them before entering the hall. But it was his bad luck that none of them were present in Calcutta at that time. It was only Bankimbau to whom he was able to present the essay before reading it in the hall. Moreover, since Bankimbabu was the president of the meeting and he was a Govt.  pensioner, he should be taken into confidence before the essay was going to be read in the meeting. Rabindranath was pleased that Bankimbabu praised the essay. Chandi Charan Bandyopadhyaya, autobiographer of Vidyasagar, described in details the meeting in the packed up hall of the General Assembly. During his deliberation, Rabindranath praised, in the middle of the essay,  the secular nature of Akbar which Bankim Chandra vehemently contested. Chandi Charan in his article criticised Bankimchandra's response.  

Birth of Youngest daughter, Mira

(L to R) Mira, Rathindra,Rabindranath,Daughter-in-law, Bela.
Youngest daughter Mira (sitting left) was born on 13 January 1894. The poems written for the last two years were collected in "Sonar Tari" and he started to write Chitra Kabyagrantha.

He again went to Rajshahi, North Bengal. In the mean time the Zulu war was started in Africa. Remembering that war he wrote "Ebar Phirao More".  Apart from this, he wrote two essays, 'Rajneetir Dwidha' and 'Apamaner Pratikar'. These essays were published in 'Sadhana' .

Bankimchandra and Biharilal, were his ideal at the beginning of his life. But both died one and half month's apart. Bankimchandra died on 8 April 1894. Rabindranath read an essay at the condolence meeting. Gurudas Bandyopadhyaya presided over the meeting. Rabindranath paid his deepest respects to Bankimchandra in this essay.
Bangiya Sahitya Parishad was formed this year. Nabin Chandra Sen and Rabindranath Tagore were elected vice-president for the first year. Rabindranath wrote the introduction of 'Thakurmar Jhuli' written by Dakshinaranjan. Nabinchandra Sen in his autobiography described the youthful vigour of Rabindranath.

Rabindranath himself began to collect 'Chara' for the Sahitya Parishad.

Sometimes Rabindranath went to see his zamindari, sometimes he had to come to Calcutta. he found it difficult to make time for his creative work. Ultimately he went to Shantiniketan, Bolpur, and stayed there on the first floor of the two storied building constructed by his father. In this solitary place, he began to think about himself and made a short analysis about himself which he wrote in a letter.

Engrej O Bharatbasi

After the Great Revolution in 1857, the British authority passed in their parliament, the Indian Council Act,1861. This was reconstituted after 30 years, in 1892.  The Indian people placed a demand for  a representative Government. In response to their demand the British Government amended the above act to introduce community-wise reservation for some seats, imposing conditions for Indians to enter Government services and fixing the exchange value of Indian currency with British currency in such a fashion that India would lose crores of rupees. All these factors influenced the minds of the learned people of India including the Government pension holder, Bankim Chandra . A meeting was convened in the hall of Chaitanya Library presided by Bankimchandra. Rabindranath wrote an essay to be read at the meeting. He was asked to  read the essay in front of Bankimchandra prior to the meeting so that Bankimchandra could judge that nothing objectionable was there which might lead to a penal case.
Not only this essay, he wrote 'Engrejer Atanka', an essay explaining the necessity of Hindu Muslim Unity, 'Subicharer Adhikar' , ' Raja O Praja' and 'Rajnitir dwidha'. All these essays bore the testimony of patrotism of Rabindranath.
At the same time Rabindranath was moved at the oppression by the British on the Zulus of South Africa. From this time onwards, communal sentiments were injected amongst the Indians which vitiated the social life of Indians.

This ill feelings between the two communities developed, at first, in Maharashtra where Lokmanya Tilak encouraged Hindu patriotism organising  Shivaji Utsab, Sarbajanin Ganapati Puja etc. An organisation was established in the name of "Save the mother Cow" , as a symbol for Hindu religion. On the other hand slaughtering of cows are necessary rituals for the Muslims. Such disagreements led to communal riots. The Government may have been able to stop the disturbance but they did not.

Biday Abhishap

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Rabindranath settled his family life at Jorasanko when Mrinalini came back from Solapur with her children.This time Rabindranath went to Orissa and took Balendranath along with him. At Cuttak he remained as guest in the house of Biharilal Gupta who was district judge at that time. He went to Puri on horseback from Cuttak. This was his first visit to Puri. From Puri they went to Konarak. For his zamindari work he went to different places in and around Cuttak such as Pandua, Balia, Tiran etc He wrote "Panchabhuter Diary" and returned to Calcutta by steamer. In Orissa he wrote many poems.  He also wrote "Biday Abhishap", a drama in verse- about Kach O Debjani.
It was learnt from the book of Prasanta Kr. Paul that the manuscript of 'Biday-Abhishap' was just a note-book of 34 pages of which the first two pages were blank  On the 2nd page there was a sketch of a male turned back and head hidden behind the knees drawn by a pencil. The  rest of the pages were  ruled in light blue-color of which there were 22 rules.The right hand pages only were used for writing and left side pages were kept for subsequent corrections and additions. The full text of the subject was written by pencil and at the end of the essay the date was written by ink written in Payar rhymes in 328 lines with many

corrections. But after completion.he didn't change any of its lines- no change was found in the first publication in 'Sadhana' and the later publication in his collection of writings. After its publication in 'Sadhana', the poet Nitai Krishna Basu wrote in his diary that Rabibabu had began to write mixing up Mitrakshar with Amitraksar, which gave the poetry a lovely appearence. 

(Video)Part 1 of CHITRANGADA, 1892

Rabindranath had to go frequently to Shelaidah for looking after his zamindari. He had deep interaction with the farmers and villagers. He started writing poems for one of his greatest creation "Sonar Tari" (Golden Boat). In the middle of the year he went to Bolpur with his wife and three children- Bela (6), Rathindra (4), and Renuka (2). He again came back to the River, Padma and his Zamindari.
In 1892, an organisation was formed in the name 'Indian Musical Society'. This organisation would serve to fulfil the desire of upper middle-class people interested in music. Jyotirindranath and Rabindranath were associated with this organisation from the very beginning. For staging a drama of the society, he wrote a satire drama 'Goraay Galad'. He himself took the responsibilty of conducting the rehearsal.
Chitrangada, a Kabya Natya,  was published in this year (1892) and it was staged at Emarald Theatre after 'Krishnakanter Will'. Chitrangada is an excellent creation by Rabindranath based on a plot of a skeleton of a story taken from the epic Mahabharata, written in the style of blank verse.When Rabindranath translated his drama, written in his early days,  in prose (Sanyasi, King and Queen , Sacrifice etc), he changed many of his original work but  Chitrangada, (translated form being Chitra), was an exception. In Chitra he only dropped the para 7 and combined para 6 and para 8 to one, and changed some of the dialogues of Madan and Chitrangada.

Krishna Kripalani commented on Chitrangada saying that this was a lyrical drama par excellence... which was one of Rabindranah's best, and perhaps the only one that was flawless, if anything made by man could be called flawles. Not a line would one like to take from it ...where every utterence quivers with lyrical passion held in masterly restraint. But Dwijendralal complained that the Kabya Natya was vulgar and immoral.  Prasanta Pal mentioned all such remarks in his book "Rabi-Jibani".
At the end of the year Rabindranath went again to Solapur with his wife and children.
He came back to Rajshahi and remained as a guest of Loken Palit who was District Judge at that time. Akshay Kumar Moitra was there. He wrote 'Sirajuddaulah' and 'Mir Kasim' to great acclaim. In the Association of Rajshahi, he read an essay 'Shikshar Herpher' at their request. When Indians were busy chasing the English language he spoke in favor Benagali and placed a demand to the Authorities of Calcutta University to teach in the Bengali medium, which was supported by the then  vice-chancellor, Sir Justice Gurudas Bandyopadhaya, and Barristar, Anada Mohan Basu.