Dwarkanath Tagore believed that India would develop through westernisation
and industrialisation.
Dwarkanath went to England twice, in 1842 and again in 1844.
Dwarkanath did not return home from his second visit to Europe.
Soon after Dwarkanath' s death in London, it was discovered that
Born in 1794, Dwarkanath was only thirteen years old when his father died.
thirteen years earlier, Dwarkanath died, away from his home, in London on 1st August 1846,
maternal grandfather of Aurobindo and Barin), Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, the famous editor of the Som Prakasa
The family fortune reached its peak in the life and career of Dwarkanath Tagore, the grandfather of poet Rabindranath.
Soon after Dwarkanath' s death in London, it was discovered that
die firm' s liabilities far exceeded its ready assets.
What no longer stands is the stately edifice which Dwarkanath had built on the adjoining land where he entertained friends
What no longer stands is the stately edifice which Dwarkanath had built on the adjoining land where he entertained friends
and guests and all the leading lions of the then ruling society of Calcutta.
Like his friend and senior contemporary Raja Rammohun Roy who had died in Bristel,
thirteen years earlier, Dwarkanath died, away from his home, in London on 1st August 1846,
at the age of fifty- two.
In the heart of Calcutta in the quarter known as Jorasanko the family mansion of the Tagores still
stands, now a seat of learning, a grateful nation' s monument to Dwarkanath' s illustrious grandson.
On the eve of his departure for England a contemporary English
journal published in Calcutta wrote," To describe Dwarkanath' s public charities would be
to enumerate every charitable institution in Calcutta, for from which of them has he withheld his most liberal donations?
According to Samaren Roy:" Here were born many of the religious and social reformers of nineteenth- century Bengal, notable among them, Rajnarain Bose(
maternal grandfather of Aurobindo and Barin), Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, the famous editor of the Som Prakasa
and associate of Pandit Sivanath Sastri.