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Dwarkanath Tagore

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Dwarkanath Tagore (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর, Darokanath Ţhakur) (1794–1846), one of the first Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs, was the founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family, and is notable for making substantial contributions to the Bengal Renaissance. [1]

41 relations: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Assam, Baharampur, Bangladesh, Bengal, Bengal Presidency, Bengali Brahmins, Bengali renaissance, Brahmin, Brahmo, British Indian Association, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Chitpur, Cuttack, Death mask, East India Company, Governor-General of India, Hooghly River, India, India Office, Indian National Congress, Indigo, Jorasanko, Jute, Kensal Green Cemetery, Kolkata, Murshid Quli Khan, Nilmoni Tagore, Odisha, Opium, Parsi, Permanent Settlement, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Radhakanta Deb, Ram Mohan Roy, Raniganj, Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Tagore family, West Bengal, Zamindar, 24 Parganas.

Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh was established as the Asiatic Society of Pakistan in Dhaka in 1952, and renamed in 1972.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Baharampur

Baharampur (pronounced asˌ) is a city in the state of West Bengal, India,in Murshidabad district situated in the central part of the state.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Bengal

Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency was once the largest subdivision (presidency) of British India, with its seat in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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Bengali Brahmins

The Bengali Brahmins are those Hindu Brahmins who traditionally reside in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Indian state of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Bangladesh.

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Bengali renaissance

The Bengali renaissance or simply Bengal renaissance, (বাংলার নবজাগরণ; Bānglār nabajāgaraṇ) was a cultural, social, intellectual and artistic movement in Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent during the period of the British Indian Empire, from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण) is a varna (class) in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations.

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Brahmo

A Bengali Brahmo or the traditional Bengali elites are Bengal's upper class.

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British Indian Association

The British Indian Association was established on 31 October 1851.

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official.

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Chitpur

Chitpur (or Chitpore) is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Cuttack

Cuttack is the former capital and the second largest city in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

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Death mask

A death mask is an image, typically in wax or plaster cast made of a person's face following death, often by taking a cast or impression directly from the corpse.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Hooghly River

The Hooghly River (Hugli; Anglicized alternatively spelled Hoogli or Hugli) or the Bhāgirathi-Hooghly, traditionally called 'Ganga', is an approximately distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, India.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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India Office

The India Office was a British government department established in London in 1858 to oversee the administration, through a Viceroy and other officials, of the Provinces of British India.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Indigo

Indigo is a deep and rich color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine.

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Jorasanko

Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of north Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.

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Jute

Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Murshid Quli Khan

Murshid Quli Khan, also known as Mohammad Hadi (1660 – 30 June 1727), was the first Nawab of Bengal, serving from 1717 to 1727.

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Nilmoni Tagore

Nilmoni Tagore (1721-1791) was a scion of Tagore family who, founded the Jorasanko branch of Tagore family leaving the old house of Pathuriaghata.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Parsi

A Parsi (or Parsee) means "Persian" in the "Persian Language", which today mainly refers to a member of a Zoroastrian community, one of two (the other being Iranis) mainly located in India, with a few in Pakistan.

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Permanent Settlement

The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land, with far-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the entire British Empire and the political realities of the Indian countryside.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Radhakanta Deb

Sir Raja Radhakanta Deb Bahadur (1784-1867) was a scholar and a leader of the Calcutta conservative Hindu society, the adopted son and heir of Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb of Shovabazar Raj.

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Ram Mohan Roy

Raja Ram Mohan Roy (c. 1774 -- 27 September 1833) was a founder of the Brahma Sabha the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in India.

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Raniganj

Raniganj is the South-Eastern neighbourhood in Asansol, in Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

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Robert Cutlar Fergusson

Robert Cutlar Fergusson (1768–1838) was a Scottish lawyer and politician.

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Tagore family

The Tagore Family, with over three hundred years of history,Deb, Chitra, pp 64–65.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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Zamindar

A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat.

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24 Parganas

24 Parganas district (cabbiś pargaṇā jēlā) is a former district of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarkanath_Tagore

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