Why tagore not thakur

What an idiot, this so-called television anchor? Share this story. What's on your mind? Start a conversation, not a fire. Post with kindness. Post Comment. Please review and accept these changes below to continue using the website. We use cookies to ensure the best experience for you on our website. Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat. So, in desperation they are taking up any issue without proper study.

There are enough references available to study. Kamlesh Parmar, associated with the board as a subject expert, said that both the usages are common in different Indian languages and Gujarati is no exception. Descendants of the poet confirmed that Tagore family members use two surnames in two languages — Thakur in Bengali and Tagore in English.

They expressed surprise at the BJP spokesperson's ignorance of what is common knowledge in Bengal. These are part of one's identity," said Sudripta Tagore, a Tagore family member who lives in Santiniketan and is a teacher by profession.

I have come to learn that in the 18th century we became Thakur in Bengali and Tagore in English. That's how it has been since then. Having lost that 'purity' the family must have found it difficult to live in a community which judged it harshly and gave it little quarter.

The predicament must have been particularly galling when it came to finding suitable husbands for the daughters. And so the family, hounded from their ancestral home, must have wandered from place to place, each member seeking fortune for himself and husbands for the daughters. He would be a bold Brahmin who accepted the daughter of such a family. Such a bold fellow was one Jagannath Kushari, who married a niece of the ill-fated brothers Kamadev and Jayadev, whose indiscreet jest had caused the family all the trouble.

Jagannath Kushari had to pay a heavy price for his boldness, for he too was obliged to leave his home and settled down in a village called Uttarpara in what is today known as Khulna district in South-East Pakistan.

It was a descendant, named Panchanan Kushari, in the male line of this bold and rash man who may be said to have founded what is today known as the Tagore family. Having lost the pride of caste they lost their fear too, for not much else was left to lose. Adventure was in the air. White men from across the seas had opened a factory and trading centre on the banks of the holy river Ganges and, though 'unclean barbarians', such was their power and prestige that even the Muslim rulers thought it prudent to keep on good terms with them.

So Panchanan and his uncle Sukhdev left home in the last decade of the seventeenth century, as their forefathers had done earlier, and settled down in a village called Govindpur on the bank of the Ganges not far from the British settlement. Govindpur now part of the teeming city of Kolkata was at that time a small fishing village whose inhabitants were all of the so-called low caste.

Seeing a Brahmin family settle in their midst they felt elated and gave the uncle and his nephew all the honour due to their caste as Brahmins. Panchanan was always referred to or addressed by them as Panchanan Thakur - Thakur meaning Holy Lord, as the Brahmins are often addressed even to this day. Panchanan had found a lucrative occupation in supplying provisions to the foreign ships that sailed up the river. The British and other foreigners had thus ample opportunities of dealing with Panchanan and naturally assumed, as most foreigners would still do, that Thakur was Panchanan's surname or family name.