Rabindranath in North India-1935

The delegates of Indian Science Congress visited Santiniketan on 6th january, 1935.
Rabindranath became pleased to observe the dance performance of Gopinath and Ragini Devi.
Guru Gopinath (Malayalam: ഗുരു ഗോപിനാഥ്) (June 24, 1908 – October 9, 1987) was an Indian classical dancer, Kathakali master and mentor of a relatively new creative modern dancing style called Kerala Natanam.

(Keralanatanam in 1932- Laksminaraayana Dance by Ragini Devi and Gopinath)

The Governor of Bengal, Sir John Anderson  (Aged only thirty-four, Anderson headed the Civil Service staff of the new Ministry of Shipping in 1917. Later, he served as Under-Secretary for Ireland, and became Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office in 1922, where he had to deal with the General Strike of 1926. His career in the civil service was capped by a posting as Governor of Bengal from 1932 to 1937.) visited Santiniketan. But a heavy police arrangements for his safety was arranged by the authority. At this Rabindranath became annoyed and sent all his students to Srinietan. The Governor visited a lonely Santiniketan.

The poet started for Benaras on the very night.
He delivered  lecture, for the first time, in the convocation of Banaras Hindu University. The University awarded an Honarary Doctorate on this occasion.
He went to Allahabad by motor, attended different programmes and delivered lecture to the students. From Allahabad he went to Lahore addressed the Panjabi - students in their 5th conference on 15th and 17th february,1935. On 16th t=he recited poems in Y.M.C.A. hall. He visited Lahore-Dayananda Vedic Collegeand delivered lecture. Then he came to Lucknau and delivered lectures there for two days.    

Tagore again in Madras -1934

In the month of Oct 1934 Rabindranath was invited to come to Madras. He reached there on 21st  Oct. On 22 nd Oct he was greeted by the citizen of the city. He delivered lectures in many places. On 25th Oct a team from Santiniketan came to Madras who would stage Dance Drama to collect money They staged Sapmochan on 27, 28, 30 and 31st they staged Sapmochan. But they cou;ld not collect sufficient money.. Rabindranath returned to Calcutta on Dec 4th.
Rathindranath went to London to meet Anderson and discuss about Sriniketan. From 1922 to 1934, the dartington Trust donated some money to Santiniketan.
the poet is very busy to construct a earthen house, named "Shyamali". 

Tagore with Tan Yun Shan and Abdul Gaffar Khan

Rabindranath came to Santiniketan and began to do some reformation in the internalmatter of Santiniketan.
In August (19 & 26), Tan Yun Shang met Rabindranath and proposed him to open a Chinese Bhavan in santiniketan which rabindranath agreed. Subsequently Chinese Bhavan was constructed.
On February 18 Tan wrote to Tagore advising him of the progress much to the delight of the Poet.

1934

Returned to Santiniketan in February to organize the India Chapter of the Sino-Indian Cultural Society. The Society was established in September with Tagore as its first President and Rathindranath as the General Secretary
(Tan Yun Shang presenting Chinese Books to Tagore)

Abdul Ghaffar Khan of North West frontier came to Santiniketan to see his son,Abdul Gani reading there, He was greeted cordially.Khān Abdul Ghaffār Khān (1890 – 20 January 1988)  also known as Fakhr-e Afghān (Pashto: فخر افغان‎, lit. "pride of Afghans"), and Bāchā Khān (Pashto: باچا خان‎, lit. "king of chiefs"), Pāchā Khān or Bādshāh Khān, was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition to the British Raj in British India, and a lifelong pacifist and devout Muslim. A close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, Bacha Khan has been called the "Frontier Gandhi" by the Indians. In 1910, Bacha Khan opened a mosque school at his hometown Utmanzai, and in 1911 joined the freedom movement of Haji Sahib of Turangzai, however in 1915, the British authorities banned his mosque school. Having witnessed the repeated failure of revolts against the British Raj, Bacha Khan decided that social activism and reform would be more beneficial for the Pashtuns. This lead to the formation of Anjuman-e Islāh al-Afghān ("Afghan Reform Society") in 1921, and the youth movement Pax̌tūn Jirga ("Pashtun Assembly") in 1927. After Bacha Khan's return from the Hajj in May 1928, he founded the Pashto language monthly political journal Pax̌tūn. Finally, in November 1929, Bacha Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") movement, whose success triggered a harsh crackdown by the British Empire against him and his supporters and they suffered some of the most severe repression of the Indian independence movement.^[3] In 1962, Bacha Khan was named the Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience of the Year. In 1987, he became the first non-Indian to be awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. Bacha Khan was an important freedom fighter, and is a Pashtun national hero and a key figure of Pashtun nationalism.

Bacha Khan strongly opposed the All-India Muslim League's demand for the partition of India.

Rabindranath in Ceylon (3rd time)- 1934

Rabindranath delivered a lecture on the "Theories of Literature" in the Calcutta University and another lecture in Presidency college at the "Rabindra Parishad"
He also visited the " Bharati pen facotry" of Lahas "  and presided over the silver jubilee of Hindusthan Cooperative Airlines.
The poet expressed his concern about the spread of Hindu-Muslim riot in literature.
   He delivered a lecture in the Senate Hall in a meeting organised by International Relations Club on 7th April 1934.

Rabindranath went to Ceylon  by Ichanga Ship to stage some dramas. A team of students and teachers went there in advance by train. They were greeted in Colombo by Sir Baron Jayatilaka also by the citizens of Ceylon in Y.M.C.A. hall which was broadcasted in Radio Ceylon. Rabindranath recited a poem.They were invited by the Business Magnets of  domiciled Indians.
(Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (13 February 1868 - 29 May 1944) (known as D.B. Jayatilaka) was a Sri Lankan educationalist, statesmen and diplomat. He was Vice President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon; the Minister for Home Affairs and Leader of the House of the State Council of Ceylon; and Representative of Government of Ceylon in New Delhi)
The students of Santiniketan staged "Sapmochan" and also art exhibition of Rabindranath took place.
This was the third time that Rabindranath came to Ceylon. He came here in 1922 and 1928. But no team of students came at that time. The ceylonese did not witnessed Indian Dances earlier.They enjoyed by witnessing the Indian dances. This cultuyral expedition by Rabindranath took place since the victory of Ceylon by Bijoy Singh of Bengal.
Some students from Ceylon came to Santiniketan fro study but after this occasion a good number of students used to come to Santiniketan.

Despite Colombo they went to Gaulle, Horana, Mataru  and other places there.They staged Sapmochan for consecutive three days in Colombo.They observed Candy dance there.Rabi dranath completed his "Char Adhyay.
They also went to Jaffna where people of Tamil lived in large number.
They returned back on 15th June, 1934.   

Sarojini Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru with his wife in Santiniketan-1934

 Rabindranath came back to Santiniketan on 3rd January,1934 after traveling west, south and central India for about one and half months.

Sarojini Naidu came to Santiniketan on 9th Jan 1934 and was greeted cordially.

Kamala Kaul Nehru  1 August 1899 - 28 February 1936) was a freedom fighter and the wife of Jawaharlal .

Nehru - leader of the Indian National Congress and the first prime minister of India and the mother of Indira Gandhi. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serious minded and sensitive A file picture of 1918 shows barrister Jawaharlal Nehru and wife Kamla Nehru with one - year - old daughter Indira, in Bombay(left)

Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru came to Santiniketan to see their daughter reading in Santiniketan on 19th Jan  1934.

There was an earth quake in Bihar on 15th Jan 1934 which was mentioned by M.K.Gandhi  "as a result of sinful activity." This was protested  by Rabindranath in a letter written on 5th Feb.

Nalini ranjan Sarkar had close contacts with Surendranath Banerjee, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Chittaranjan Das, which developed his ideas related to nationalism and economic freedom. He joined the movement against the partition of Bengal in 1905. In later years, influenced by Gandhi's ideas of non-violence, he participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.
In the early 1920s, when C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swarajya Party, Nalini ranjan Sarkar joined it and soon became one of its leaders. He was, at the same time, involved with the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. He was also a member of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1923 to 1930 and again from 1937 to 1946 as well as Chief Whip of the parliamentary Swarajya Party in Bengal. In the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1928, he acted as the Secretary of the Exhibition organised for the occasion. Following the death of CR Das, he with Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nirmal Chandra Chunder, Sarat Chandra Bose and Tulsi Chandra Goswami dominated the Congress movement in Bengal and constituted what was known as the "Big Five" of the Bengal Congress. He was elected a Councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1932 and became its Mayor in 1935.He came to Santiniketan on 6th Feb 1934 as a chief guest and attended a lecture delivered by  Rabindranath on " Upekshita Palli" 

Rabindra-Week in Bombay-1933

Sarojini Naidu, also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was one of the framers of the Indian Constitution. Naidu is the second Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh state. Her birthday is celebrated as Women's Day all over India.
Sarojini Naidu organise to observe Rabindra- Week in Bombay. An exhibition of paintings of the students of Kala Bhavan and Taser Desh dance drama were held in Bombay.
From Bombay the poet went to Waltair and delivered lectures in the seires of lectures of KrishnaSwami in Andhra University. Then he came to Hyderabad as a guest of Sir Kishen Pershad. He delivered a lecture in Osmania University. In 1927, Nijam of Hyderabad donated Viswabharati one lac of Rupees.in 1927.
Rabindranath returned to Calcutta and delivered lecture on 29th Dec on " Bharat Pathik Rammohan" on the occasion of birth centenary of Rammohan and on 30th Dec in All India Womens Conference in Town Hall.  

Rabindranath in 1933

Rabindranath being a professor of Ramtanu Lahiri delivered lectures in the Calcutta University in the series of  " lectures on Kamala" on the "Religion of Human being" on 16,18, and 20th January 1933.He was appointed in the same post for two years but he did not have taken regular classes.

  Mayor of Calcutta, Bidhan Chandra Roy, came to Sriniketan as a chief guest on the 11th anniversary of Sriniketan on 5-6 Jan 1933.
Drinking water was installed in Santiniketan by Minister of Bengal, Bijoy Prasad Singha. This was the first time that a minister of the Government of Bengal came to  Santiniketan.
Rabindranath delivered lecture in the Calcutta University as a professor on " Shikhshar Bikiran".
He came to the house of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis at Berhanagar for taking rest at the end of March 1933.
In the mean time Madan Mohan Malaviya came there and informed him about the scandals circulated by British Government relating to India through out the world.
Having returned to Santiniketan Rabindranath issued a statement in reply to the above, "Fully equipped information centers in the West is necessary to form for Sober presentation abroad of facts and figures about the present situation   "
Rabindranath began constructing Bengali terminology with the help of a young Professor Bijan Behari Bhattacharya.
He went to Darjeeling during summer vacation and came to Santiniketan after two months.
He organised afforestation ceremony and Barsha Mangal in Santiniketan.

The famous Dancer Uday Shankar came to Santiniketan and showed some dances to Rabindranath on 12 July,1933.  

William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
Rabindranath sent a message to the death centenary of Wilberforce, the founder of the movement of slave-system.
On 12, 13, and !5th of Sept, 1933, the teachers and students staged in Madam Theater the recently finished two dance dramas, Taser Desh and Chandalika. Rabindranath delivered a lecture in Calcutta University on
" Rhymes " on 16th sept,1933.