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The Tagore Family, with over three hundred years of history,〔Deb, Chitra, pp 64-65.〕 has been one of the leading families of Calcutta, and is regarded as a key influence during the Bengal Renaissance.〔 The family has produced several persons who have contributed substantially in the fields of business, social and religious reformation, literature, art and music.〔 ==Background== The family surname of the Tagores is Thakur. Tagore's are Bengali Brahmins(Kushari), they had came from east part of Bengal (now in Bangladesh) and settled in the region situated on the right bank of river Hooghly (Rarh) in the Fourteenth century. Europeans started coming to Bengal in the 16th century, resulting in the founding of Ugulim (Hooghly-Chinsura) by the Portuguese in 1579.〔Sengupta, Nitish, pp 119-126〕 The Battle of Plassey in 1757 resulted in the deposition of the last independent Nawab of Bengal. After battle of Buxar, British East India company was given the right to collect revenues from Bengal and by 1793 the British East India Company abolished Nizamat(local ruler) and took control of the former Mughal province of Bengal. The Bengal renaissance of the 19th century was a remarkable period of societal transformation in which whole range of creative activities – literary, cultural, social and economic- flourished〔Sengupta, Nitish, pp 209-216〕 The Bengal Renaissance was the culmination of the process of emergence of the cultural characteristics of the Bengali people that had started in the age of Hussein Shah (1493–1519).〔''History of Bengali-speaking People'' by Nitish Sengupta, p 210, 212-213.〕 This spread over covering around three centuries had a tremendous impact on Bengali society. Incidentally that coincided with the rise of the Tagore family. The Tagore family attained prominence during this period through its unusual social positioning between Indian and European influences. To quote Chitra Deb,〔Chitra Deb is a writer on social and historical subjects. She is attached to ''Ananda Bazar Patrika '' and has made enormous contribution in the field of study of the Tagores.〕 “Though the cultural role of the Thakurs has received the greatest attention by far, their importance on final assessment is a composite one: commercial and political as well as literary and musical. They played a collective role in every patriotic movement of their times: Nabagopal Mitra’s Hindu Mela, the Congress and the National Conference, the Rakhi Festival of 1905, and the Nationalist Movement generally. The story of the Thakurs is inseparable from the story of Calcutta, Bengal and India.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tagore family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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