Rabindranath Tagore and Mrinalini Devi with their first child, Bela, in 1886 Hindustan Times While studying at University College, London, Tagore became exposed to British social life and Western music, and he enjoyed both. Earlier, he had enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England, where he stayed at a house owned by the Tagore family near Brighton and Hove in Medina Villas. In 1878, after his matriculation, the 17-year-old Rabindranath Tagore was sent to London to qualify for the Indian Civil Service or as a lawyer, where he joined University College.

His father, Devendranath, gave him lessons in Sanskrit, astronomy, and the scriptures, which formed the basis of Tagor’s reformed religion. He also learned lessons in wrestling, music, and drawing from professionals. UNESCO By the age of 14, Tagore had gradually started withdrawing himself from formal schooling, and for the rest of his education, he preferred home-tutoring and his own personal efforts to learn various subjects. UNESCO Although he attended a number of English-speaking schools, he never liked their teaching method moreover, he never wished to be taught in a foreign language. OpenEdition He attended one of the Bengali-medium schools established by Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (an Indian educator and social reformer of the 19th century), and later in his life, Tagore said that he owed his love of Bengali language and literature to this school. Tagore was mostly home-tutored it was a regular norm for affluent Bengali families to hire private tutors for their children in those times. Jorasanko Thakur Bari, where Rabindranath Tagore grew upīy the time he was growing up, primary schools were set up by the colonial administration in India. Nasrin, W.A.M Van Der Wurff on Tuesday, ( age 80 years at the time of death) in his ancestral home “Jorasanko mansion” (Jorasanko Thakur Bari), Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India). Rabindranath Tagore was born as Robindronath Thakur Colloquial Bengali By Mithun B. Santiniketan (1901–1932) – Middle years of Rabindranath Tagore.Shelaidaha (1878–1901) – The period of his Sadhana.

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