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Dr Uma Das Gupta

A historian and Tagore biographer who is a former professor of The Indian Statistical Institute. Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’, Andrews, Tagore and Gandhi: An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940, Rabindranath Tagore an Illustrated life, Santiniketan and Sriniketan are some of her celebrated works. She is a noted Tagore scholar and biographer.
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Meeting of East and West: Rabindranath Tagore’s Challenging Ideas for World Change

We all know that Tagore was primarily a poet. What we do not know well is that he was the founder of a new education

Tagore at Santiniketan
Rural Reforms and the Tagores (Part IV)

The University of Illinois has played an integral role in Visva-Bharati’s history of pioneering scientific experimentation in agriculture as part of Tagore’s ideas.

Tagore at Santiniketan
Rural Reforms and the Tagores (Part III)

That is how Rathi settled down to the life of a skilled gentleman farmer and continued to apply his knowledge usefully in an experimental farm...

Tagore at Santiniketan
Rural Reforms and the Tagores (Part II)

One was his determination to break out of the isolation imposed as much by the Indian past as by colonial rule. The other was in

Tagore at Santiniketan
Rural Reforms and the Tagores (Part I)

Tagore’s son Rathi and his class mate Santosh Majumdar, who was the son of a close friend of Tagore’s, came to study agriculture at the