The Tagore Family: A MemoirThacker, Spink, 1892 - 187 pagini |
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Adisur appointed Ashley Eden Babu Kishori Chand Bahadur Bengal Bhatta Narayana Brahmans British-Indian Association brother Calcutta career character Chunder connexion countrymen Darpa Narayan death descendants Dwarikā Nath Tagore English estates feeling Gopee Mohun Tagore Government Halayudha hereditary Hindoo College Hindoo law Hindoo music Honorary honour Huro Coomar Hurry Mohun India interest Jessore Jotendra Mohun Tagore Kanouj Kishori Chand Mittra lakh of rupees land large number learned Legislative Council letter liberal Lord Dalhousie Lord Lytton Lord William Bentinck Maharaja Jotendra Mohun Mahommedans Majesty Mayo Hospital medal Member ment Mulajore Nāth Nundun occasion Patharia present Prince Prosunna Coomar Tagore public meeting Ragas Raja Sourendra Mohun Rajshahai Rām Ram Mohun Roy Rama Nath Tagore Reformer reputation revenue river-side Royal rupees Sanskrit saptaka Satto Sena sons Sourendra Mohun Tagore srutis studies suttee Tagore family temple tion Urdu vernacular
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Pagina 154 - Bengal, and of a family so ancient, they still enjoy to a great degree the veneration of the common people, which the present head of the house appears to value, — since I can hardly reconcile in any other manner his philosophical studies and imitation of many European habits, with the daily and austere devotion which he is said to practise towards the Ganges, (in which he bathes three times every twenty-four hours,) and his veneration for all the other duties of his ancestors.
Pagina 155 - Russe" of masonry, very steep, and covered with plaster, down which he said the ladies used to slide. Of these females, however, we saw none,— indeed they were all staying at his town-house in Calcutta. He himself received us at the head of a whole tribe of relations and descendants on a handsome flight of steps, in a splendid shawl, by way of mantle, with a large rosary of coral set in gold, leaning on an ebony crutch with a gold head. Of his grandsons, four very pretty boys, two were dressed...
Pagina 153 - Zennanah, the race is conceived to have lost claim to the knotted cord, and the more rigid Brahmins will not eat with them. Being, however, one of the principal landholders in Bengal, and of a family so ancient, they still enjoy to a great degree the veneration of the common people, which the present head of the house appears to value, — since I can hardly reconcile in any other manner his philosophical studies and imitation of many European habits, with the daily and austere devotion which he...
Pagina 55 - Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed till some one wave Out of the multitudinous mass, extends The empire of the whole, some feet perhaps, Over the strip of sand which could confine Its fellows so long time : thenceforth the rest, Even to the meanest, hurry in at once, And so much is clear gained.
Pagina 135 - MY DEAR SIR, — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yesterday.
Pagina 153 - This is more like an Italian villa, than what one should have expected as the residence of Baboo Hurree Mohun Thakoor. Nor are his carriages, the furniture of his house, or the style of his conversation, of a character less decidedly European. He is a fine old man who speaks English weU, is well informed on most topics of general discussion,' and talks with the appearance of much familiarity on Franklin, chemistry, natural philosophy, &c.
Pagina 154 - of masonry, very steep, and covered with plaster, down which, he said, the ladies used to slide. Of these females, however, we saw none ; indeed, they were all staying at his town-house in Calcutta. He himself received us, at the head of a whole tribe of relations and descendants...
Pagina 154 - England, and is conferred by government in almost the same manner. The house is surrounded by an extensive garden, laid out in formal parterres of roses, intersected by straight walks, with some fine trees, and a chain of tanks, fountains, and summer houses...
Pagina 155 - ... descendants on a handsome flight of steps, in a splendid shawl, by way of mantle, with a large rosary of coral set in gold, leaning on an ebony crutch with a gold head. Of his grandsons, four very pretty boys, two were dressed like English children of the same age, but the round hat, jacket, and trowsers, by no means suited their dusky skins so well as the splendid brocade caftans and turbans covered with diamonds, which the two elder wore.
Pagina 154 - Government in almost the same manner. The .house is surrounded by an extensive garden, laid out in formal parterres of roses, intersected by straight walks, with some fine trees, and a chain of tanks, fountains, and summerhouses, not...