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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . branch of study; among his works of art are:- Designs for Memorial Address to Lady Cu zon, Casket presented to His Majesty the King-Emperor by the Calcutta Corporation and the Carmichael medal. Book Illustration:- Omar Khayyam (in Colours); Rabindranath Tagore’s Crescent Moon; and Sister Nivedita’s Myths and Legends of India; Painted Water-Colour picture of Asoka’s Queen for Her Majesty the Queen-Empress; has exhibited at most art Exhibitions in India and won medals and first prizes; Trustee, Indian Museum, and keeper of Art Gallery, Calcutta; Member of Art Advisory Committee to Government of Bengal. Publications: Short Stories from Sanskrit Literature; Annals of Rajasthan, etc.; many articles in monthly periodicals. Address: 5, Dwarkanath Tagore’s Lane, Calcutta.  Tagore, Hon’ble Maharaja Bahadur Sir Pradyot Kumar, Kt. (1906), Calcutta; e.s. of late Maharaja Bahadur Sir Jotindra Mohan Tagore, K.C.S.I.; b. 1878; succeeded to hereditary title, 1908; educ: Hindu School, Calcutta, and then privately; m. Lady Soorja Bala Tagore; Owner of vast estates in Bengal and Behar; Nominated Member, Bengal Legislative Council; Sheriff of Calcutta, 1908-09; Member, Calcutta Corporation for six years; Member, Bengal Fisheries Board; Honorary Presidency Magistrate; Mem ber, Committee of Management, Calcutta Zoological Gardens, etc.; Trustee, Indian Museum; Member, Executive Committee of the Victoria Memorial; represented Calcutta at the Coronation of late Emperor Edward VII. Recreations: Motoring, Photography, and Music. Address: “The Prasad”, Pathuriaghatta, Calcutta; “Emerald Bower”, Cossipur. Club: Calcutta.  Tagore, Rabindranath; D.Lit. (Calcutta University); Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, and Essayist; Noble PrizemenNobel Prize winner [sic] in Literature, (1913); s. of Maharishi Debendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family of Jorasank, Calcutta; g.s. Dwarakanath Tagore; b. 1861; educ: privately by his father; an accomplished prose writer when only sixteen; the influence of his father’s character is seen in his profoundly spiritual hymns and the meditative calmness that breathes in his essays on religious subjects; also in his tendency to retirement; his poems, stories, songs, and hymns are famous in Bengal; an eminent Singer and Musician; has successively edited the ‘Barathi’; the ‘Belek’ ‘the Sadhana’, and the ‘Bangadarsan’ all Bengali monthly Reviews; travelled much in India and Europe; for many years managed his late father’s vast estates; served for long as Secretary, Adibrahma Samaj; devoted much time and attention to a School established in his father’s garden house, ‘Santi Niketan’, at Bolepur in which students practiced Brahmacharia and lived with their teachers as in the days of old; was a prominent worker in Swadeshi cause in Bengal, his patriotic songs and lectures contributing not a little towards its success in that province; visited England, 1913; his writings were first introduced to British public by Mr. W. B. Yeats, 427