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Jorasanko Thakur Bari

18th century

The Tagore family mansion in Calcutta where Rabindranath Tagore was born and later died, now part of a university.

The family mansion where Tagore was both born and died, the heart of the Tagore family's cultural world.

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Interior of a marble-floored room with framed black-and-white portraits of a bearded man on two walls, a draped alcove with a framed photo on a cabinet, a brass pot with flowers, and potted palms.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, 18th century. Rabindra Bharati University.

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What it is

Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the Tagore family's ancestral mansion in Calcutta, dating from the 18th century. It is now held by Rabindra Bharati University. The image shows a marble-floored room with framed portraits, a draped alcove, and potted plants — the room in which Tagore died.

Why it matters

This house was the centre of the Tagore family's cultural life and a hub of the Bengal Renaissance, the 19th-century flowering of Bengali literature, art and social reform. Rabindranath Tagore was born here in 1861 and died here in 1941, making it central to understanding the setting that shaped him.

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  • What do the portraits and furnishings in the room suggest about the family's wealth and status?
  • Why might a family home become an important historical site after someone's death?
  • What is missing from a photograph of an empty room that a visit to the living house might show?

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Piano sheet music score titled 'Jana Gana Mana' by Rabindranath Tagore, in D minor/F major key with 4/4 time, tempo 96, two staves (treble clef) with dynamics like f, p, ff and a fermata at the end.Document

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