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Tagores Before Tagore : A Screenplay

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

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Binding: Paper Back

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Language: English

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When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India’s first ‘bourgeois’, died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son—and Rabindranath Tagore’s father—Debendranath Tagore. He was a social reformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath’s opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore narrates a historical period crucial to the making of indigenous modernity. Scripted at the insistence of the famed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, this screenplay, based on true events, chronicles the tumultuous happenings that shook Jorasanko between September 1846 and June 1860, following Dwarakanath’s sudden death. Tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit and domestic squabbles abound and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.

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Author	Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Language	English
Binding Type	Paper Back
Non Fiction	Biographies & Autobiographies
Indian Author	Yes
ISBN13	9780199480371
SKU	BK 0039164