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A Bengali musicologist who came from an upper-class family from Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; that also later produced Rabindranath Tagore....

Sourindra Mohun Tagore

Sourindra Mohun Tagore
Portrait of Sourindra Mohun Tagore c. Huro Kumar Tagore's second son, Sourindro Mohun was born in 1840. Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1840–1914), a leading figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the late nineteenth century, as well as an educator, patron of music. A Bengali musicologist who came from an upper-class family from Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; that also later produced Rabindranath Tagore. Sourindro Mohun (1840-1914) was a member of the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family beside having a title as a Raja, and was a major player in the. Samaj, a reformist Hindu sect founded in the rival branch of the Tagore family junior to that in which Sourindro Mohun had been born. 1883
Born	1840 Pathuriaghata, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	5 June 1914 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Portrait of Sourindra Mohun Tagore c.

Huro Kumar Tagore's second son, Sourindro Mohun was born in 1840.

Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1840–1914), a leading figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the late nineteenth century, as well as an educator, patron of music.

A Bengali musicologist who came from an upper-class family from Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; that also later produced Rabindranath Tagore.

Sourindro Mohun (1840-1914) was a member of the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family beside having a title as a Raja, and was a major player in the.

Samaj, a reformist Hindu sect founded in the rival branch of the Tagore family junior to that in which Sourindro Mohun had been born.

1883

Born

1840

Pathuriaghata, Bengal Presidency, British India

Died

5 June 1914

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Raja Sir Sourindra Mohun Tagore or Sourindro Mohun TagoreCIE (1840, Pathuriaghata - 5 June 1914, Calcutta) was a Bengali musicologist who came from an upper-class family from Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; that also later produced Rabindranath Tagore.

He studied both Indian and western music theory and published extensively on the topics. He founded the Bengal Music School and Bengal Academy of Music. A staunch supporter of the British Empire and its agencies in India, he was commissioned to set Indian translations of God Save the Queen to Indian tunes.

Biography

Sourindro was the son of Hara Kumar Tagore and a younger brother of Jotindro Mohun Tagore belonging to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family. His family owned ex