Biography

 

Rabindranath Tagore

Born: 7 May, 1861
Place of Birth: Calcutta, British India
Penname: Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita)
Father: Debendranath Tagore
Mother: Sarada Devi
Spouse: Mrinalini Devi
Children: Renuka Tagore, Shamindranath Tagore, Meera Tagore, Rathindranath Tagore and Madhurilata Tagore
Died: 7 August, 1941
Place of Death: Calcutta, British India
Profession: Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter
Language: Bengali, English
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)

Rabindranath Tagore: Literary Works

Japajog: Published in 1929, His novel is a compelling take on marital rape.

Nastanirh: Published in 1901. This novel is about relationships and love, both requited and unrequited.

Ghare Baire: Published in 1916. It is a story about a married woman constricted in her household trying to find her own identity.

Gora: In the 1880s, it is an expansive, exhaustive and extremely relevant novel which deals with several themes like religion, gender, feminism and also tradition against modernity.

Chokher Bali: In 1903, a novel which consists of various facets of relationships.

His short stories are Bhikarini, Kabuliwala, Kshudita Pashan, Atottju, Haimanti and Musalmanir Golpo etc.

Poems are Balaka, Purobi, Sonar Tori and Gitanjali.

 

Subhash Chandra Bose Biography

 

 

 

Born	23 January 1897
Religion	Hinduism
Place of Birth	Cuttack, Orissa Division, Bengal Province, British India
Nationality	Indian
Father	Jankinath Bose,
Mother	Prabhavati Devi
Died	August 18, 1945 (aged 48), Taipei (Taihoku), Japanese Taiwan
Spouse Name	or companion, Emilie Schenkl (secretly married without ceremony or witnesses in 1937, unacknowledged publicly by Bose
Chidren	Anita Bose Pfaff
Education	Alma mater University of Calcutta and University of Cambridge. He continued his studies at this school which was run by the Baptist Mission up to 1909 and then shifted to the Ravenshaw Collegiate School. The day Subhas was admitted to this school, Beni Madhab Das, the headmaster, understood how brilliant and scintillating his genius was. After securing the second position in the matriculation examination in 1913, he got admitted to the Presidency College where he studied briefly
Profession before joining politics	He then joined the Indian National Congress and worked under the leadership of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, who later became his political guru. He opposed the Dominion Status for India declared by the Congress under the guidance of the Motilal Nehru Committee. They were in favor of complete independence and nothing else. In 1930, during the Civil Disobedience he was sent to jail and released only after the Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed in 1931.
Known for contribution as	Figure of Indian independence movement
Political Career	Indian National Congress 1921 -1940,

vidyasagar

Date of Birth: September 26, 1820

Place of Birth: Village Birshingha, District Medinipur, Bengal Presidency (now in West Bengal)

Parents: Hakurdas Bandyopadhyay (Father) and Bhagavati Devi (Mother)

Wife: Dinamani Devi

Children: Narayan Chandra Bandyopadhyay

Education: Sanskrit College Calcutta

Movement: Bengal Renaissance

Social Reforms: Widow Remarriage 

Religious Views: Hinduism

Publications: Betaal Panchabinsati (1847); Jeebancharit (1850); Bodhadoy (1851); BornoPorichoy (1854); Sitar Bonobash (1860);

Death: July 29, 1891

Place of death: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency (now Kolkata, West Bengal)

 

Raja Rammohan Ray

Born: August 14, 1774

Place of Birth: Radhanagar village, Hoogly district, Bengal Presidency (now West Bengal)

Parents: Ramakanta Roy (Father) and Tarini Devi (Mother)

Spouse: Uma Devi (3rd wife)

Children: Radhaprasad and Ramaprasad

Education: Persian and Urdu in Patna; Sanskrit in Varanasi; English in Kolkata 

Movement: Bengal Renaissance 

Religious Views: Hinduism (early life) and Brahmoism (later in life)

Publications: Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidinor A Gift to Monotheists (1905), Vedanta (1815), Ishopanishad (1816), Kathopanishad (1817), Moonduk Upanishad (1819), The Precepts of Jesus - Guide to Peace and Happiness (1820), Sambad Kaumudi - a Bengali newspaper (1821), Mirat-ul-Akbar - Persian journal (1822), Gaudiya Vyakaran (1826), Brahmapasona (1828), Brahmasangeet (1829) and The Universal Religion (1829). 

Death: September 27, 1833

Place of death: Bristol, England

Memorial: Mausoleum at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England

vivekananda

Date of Birth: January12, 1863 

Place of Birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency (Now Kolkata in West Bengal)

Parents: Vishwanath Dutta (Father) and Bhuvaneshwari Devi (Mother)

Education: Calcutta Metropolitan School; Presidency College, Calcutta

Institutions: Ramakrishna Math; Ramakrishna Mission; Vedanta Society of New York

Religious Views: Hinduism

Philosophy: Advaita Vedanta

Publications: Karma Yoga (1896); Raja Yoga (1896); Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897); My Master (1901)

Death: July 4, 1902

Place of Death: Belur Math, Belur, Bengal

Memorial: Belur Math, Belur, West Bengal

Mother Teresa

Date of Birth: August 26, 1910 

Place of Birth: Skopje, Ottoman Empire (currently Republic of Macedonia)

Parents: Nikola Bojaxhiu (Father) and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Mother)

Institution: Missionaries of Charities

Religious Views: Roman Catholic

Death: September 5, 1997

Place of Death: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Memorial: Memorial House of Mother Teresa, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Ambedkar

Born: 14 April, 1891 

Place of Birth: Mhow in Central Provinces (currently Madhya Pradesh)

Parents: Ramji Maloji Sakpal (father) and Bhimabai Murbadkar Sakpal (mother)

Spouse: Ramabai Ambedkar (1906-1935); Dr. Sharada Kabir rechristened Savita Ambedkar (1948-1956)

Education: Elphinstone High School, University of Bombay, Columbia University, London School of Economics

Associations: Samata Sainik Dal, Independent Labour Party, Scheduled Castes Federation

Political Ideology: Right winged; Equalism

Religious Beliefs: Hinduism by birth; Buddhism 1956 onwards

Publications: Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability, The Annihilation of Caste, Waiting for a Visa

Passed Away: 6, December, 1956

Ramkrishna Dev

Date of Birth: February 18, 1836

Place of Birth: Kamarpukur village, Hoogly District, Bengal Presidency

Parents: Khudiram Chattopadhyay (Father) and Chandramani Devi (Mother)

Wife: Saradamoni Devi

Religious Views: Hinduism; Advaitaism; 

Philosophy: Shakto, Advaita Vedanta, Universal Tolerance

Death: 16, August, 1886 

Place of Death: Cossipore, Calcutta

Memorial: Kamarpukur village, Hoogly District, West Bengal; Dakshineshwar Kali Temple Compound, Kolkata, West Bengal

Baba Amte

Date of Birth: December 26, 1914

Place of Birth: Hinganghat, Wardha, Maharashtra

Parents: Devidas Amte (Father) and Laxmibai (Mother)

Spouse: Sadhana Guleshastri

Children: Dr. Prakash Amte and Dr. Vikas Amte

Education: Wardha Law College

Movement: Indian Freedom Movement, Anandwan, Bharat Jodo, Lok Biradri Prakalp, Narmada Bachao Andolan

Religious Views: Hinduism

Died: February 9, 2008

Place of death: Anandwan, Maharashtra