Maharishi Debendranath Tagore was a scholar and a social reformer. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1842, which was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy in 1828. Earlier, he headed the Tattvabodhini Sabha, which was founded in 1839. More facts about Debendranth Tagore and his contributions are given below.
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Facts About Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905)
More facts related to Debendranath Tagore and his contributions are given below:
- He was born in May 1817 in Calcutta.
- His father, Dwarkanath Tagore, was a very wealthy Calcutta businessman and philanthropist who along with Raja Rammohan Roy.
- He was the father of Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Bengali poet, artist, writer and essayist.
- Tattvabodhini Sabha, which was founded by Debendranath Tagore, started a monthly theological journal named Tattvabodhini Patrika in Bengali. Tattvabodhini Sabha and Tattvabodhini Patrika, both focused on the systematic study of India’s past with a rational
- outlook and propagated the ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy.
- After some years, Tattvabodhini Sabha was incorporated into the Bahmo Samaj.
- He gave a new life and vigour to the Brahmo Samaj. Moreover, he also gave a definite form and shape to the theist movement.
- Debendranath worked on two fronts i.e. within Hinduism as the Brahmo Samaj was a reformist movement and outside Hinduism, the Samaj opposed the Christian missionaries for their attempts at conversion and their criticism of Hinduism.
- In 1844, Debendranath set up a Tatwabodhini Pathshala or Theological School to teach Vedanta and train young men to teach the Brahmo religion.
- He made Keshab Chandra Sen the acharya, soon after Sen joined the Samaj in 1858.
- After the dismissal of Keshab Chandra Sen as acharya in 1865, he and his followers founded the Brahmo Samaj of India in 1866, while Debendranath Tagore’s Samaj came to be known as the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
- He compiled and published the Brahma Dharma Grantha, which is a theistic manual of religion and morals.
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