Rabindranath in Selaidah

Debendranath started for Selaidah by boat on 6 Dec 1875. this time he took Rabindranath with him. Rabindranath wrote on a different account,
" Once I went by boat through the Ganges and I found a Gitagovinda published by extreme old Ford William." This was the first time Rabindranath went to Selaidah and he did not stay here for long time. While staying here, Rabindranath joined a programme which he described in Tattwabodhini Magh issue, titled "Kasyachit Darsakasya". After a few days Rabindranath came back to Calcutta [22 Dec],
In this  year Rabindranath  again went to Selaidah on 16 th feb 1876. Rabindranath described this journey in Jibansmriti.
First time Rabindranath went to Selaidah with his father. But as because he did not stay for long time, it was not possible for him to be acquainted with the place.
This time Rabindranath stayed in Selaidahfor more than a month.
Rabindranath wrote a poem "Prakritir Khed" which he read out in the 2nd session of "Bidwajjana Samagama". The size of the poem as it was read , was different from that published.
Rabindranath wrote patriotic poem this time. But this poem follows in the line of Bharat Bilap written by Hemchandra.
Rabindranath wrote a song for Sarojini written by Jyotirindranath.
"jwal jwal chita dwigun dwigun".
Thus he completed his foundation of his talent within 15 years of age.

Malati Punthi ; Foundation of Rabitalent (contd-2)

"Malati Punthi" is the third manuscript of Rabindranath. Blue Fullsape Khata obtained with the help of an office staff of their house was the first manuscript.. The second is a hard bound khata known as Letts' Diary. Malati Punthi was an important document of Rabindranath. He wrote "Prthirajer
Parajay" in Feb 1873 in Letts'Diary in Bolpur, Santiniketan on the way to Himalayas  with his father. Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyay imagined that the idea was reflected in the drama "Rudrachanda".
At the beginning of Maltipunthi a poetry titled "Prathan Sarga" was written. The mental condition of Rabindranaath was expressed in this poetry.
At the first part of 1943, Prof Malati Sen , Prof. of Lady Arwin School of Delhi, gifted the manuscript to Rabindra Bhaban through the  hands of Dhirendra Mohan Sen, Ex-Vice Chancellor  of Viswabharati. The name of the manuscript was Malati punthi after her name.
Sudhindra Kumar sen , brother of Mrs Sen , was a fond of Rabindranath and a Sahitya Kendra was established at their Residence at Lahore This Punthi was found in the collection of books of the Library . But this was unkown how the manuscript came in the hands of Sudhindranath. Probably the manuscript of Rabindranath had gifted the manuscript to Saratkumari Choudhurani , inhabitants of Lahore and wife of Akhoychandra Choudhury, the companion of Rabindranath in literature at his early age. Ultimately it came in the hands of Sudhindranath through  Akshoy Chandra Choudhury.
After the arrival of the manuscript in Rabindra Bhaban Prof. Prabodh Chandra Sen wrote after some time an essay titled "Rabindranather Bangla Rachana " wrote after some introduction that the manuscript was really a big hard bound khata. But now the stitching of the book was rotten  and the detached pages had become  worn out . One side of the hard coloured cover remained intact where as the cover of the other side along with some pages were not found.At present the pages not damaged had laminated . The new bound manuscript contains 231 memoirs. The size of the cover is 91/4 x63/4 and the size of the paper 81/2x51/2. The period of creation of the "Malati Punthi" was between 1874 and 1882.
Rabindranath was admitted in St.Xaviers' Collegiate School in Feb 1875 in pre-entrance i.e., class IX class. There was much difference between St.Xaviers Collegiate school with Calcutta Training Academy, Govt. Pathsala, or Bengal Academy. It was seen in the record of St.Xaviers Collegiate school that Rabindranath was not promoted to next class in 1876.

Foundation of Rabitalent - (contd-1)

The books outside the syllabus  read by Rabindranath , were mentioned on different occasions. Maximum of these books were collected by the female members in the inner compartments of the house. Swarnakumari Debi wrote, " I remember when Malini came to our house for selling the books, the female members got excited. She increased the volume of books in the library." After being grown up he used to handle all the books - Manbhanjan, Pravas milan, Duti-Sambad, Kokil-dut, Rukmini-haran, Parijat-haran, Gita-gobinda, Prahlad Charitra, Rati-bilap, Bastra-haran, Annada-mangal etc.
For the first time Rabindranath had been out of Jorasanko. The whole family was shifted to Panihati to prevent themselves from Dengu epidemic.
Rabindranath's formal education had been obstructed thrice; 1. Dengu Epidemic, 2. Wearing of Sacred thread. & 3. journey to Himala
Rabindranath went to Panihati in March 1872 as a protection from Dengu. He came to the bank of the Ganges and  wrote that this was his first time to go out of Jorasanko. This is also the beginning which was extended through out his life, moving round the river.
The lesson of Music was also continuing with  Bisnu Chandra Chakrabarty, music teacher. Wearing of sacred thread of Rabindranath, Somendranath and Satyaprasad was held in this year, 9th feb 1873.
In the mean time , it was settled that Rabindranath would go to Himalayas with his father. They left for Calcutta on 14 th Feb,1873. Rabindranath had new dresses for this journey. During his journey Rabindranath continued his study regularly under his father.
First, they came to Bolpur Santiniketan. Rabindranath did not know how paddy looked like. For the first time he saw paddy field.
He was taking lesson from his father every day in the morning in English and Sanskrit.
Talent of Rabindranath was gradually unfolding. His blue coloured manuscript was changed to Letts' Diary.He wrote , 'Avilas' , Hindu Melar Upahar[poetries] and Prithwirajer Parajay [kabya grantha] .
Debendranath taught another sub toRabindranath i.e., Astrology . Rabindranath wrote essays on Astrology . Rabindranath wrote, " this my first serial on science subject."
When Rabindranath was at Bakrota a serial on Jyotishsastra in Tattwabodhini.
After the journey to Himalayas, Rabindranath began going to school, Bengal Academy.
Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay with the help of Sajani kanta Das was preparing collections of Rabindranath's creation.Avilas , the  poem written by Rabindranath was published in Tattwabodhini , Agrahayan, 1281. [1874-75] and this was Rabindranath's first published poem.
In this year in agrahayan issue of Tattwabodhini Avilas with 39 para was pulished. at the bottom of the publication it was written that the writer of the poem was 12 yrs. But the name of the writer was not published. Rabindranath was  13 yrs 7 months at the time of publication of the poem.
Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay remarked that in the poem no personsl desire of Rabindranath was expressed here. Bankim Chandrain in his essay titled "Bangalir Bahubal" had placed high ambition at the top of anything. This poem, Avilas was a protest against this essay.

Foundation of Rabitalent (1866-1876)

The foundation of Rabitalent was hard labour. 1. Reading books at random, 2.Singing songs from childhood, 3. Doing regular physical exercises.
The first book Rabindranath read was Sishu Shiksha -1st Part by Madan Mohan Tarkalankar. In that book he came across two words "Double Rhi" and "double li" which were absent in Barna Parichay , Pratham Bhag by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Rabindranath could not keep himself free from those two words and wrote ,

Dui Burho Ri RRi

Chale dhiri dhiri.

Dui bon li lli Hase khili khili.

Ha hanche Ha kshiya

Kshikase kha ksha.

Age of Rabindranath was 3yers 8 months.
At the age of 5 Rabindranath studied Barnaparichay 2nd Part by Vidyasagar and worked Srutilikhan [dictation], multiplication table and mental mathematics.
Rabindranath was acquainted with Ramayan by his servant Ishwar at the age of 6. Rabindranath began to study Bodhaday [pratham prakash] . His home tutor Nilkamal Ghosal explained the infiniteness of the sky. This story increased Rabindranath's imaginative power.
At the age of 7 [1868] Rabindranath began studying English. the first book he read was "The first book of Reading-by Parrycharan Sircar.
At the age of 7/8 Rabindranath started writing poetry. He wrote in this context, "My age does not exceed 7/8."
His first manuscript was a blue coloured copy book received from a staff of house office. 

Rbindranath said, "I can not remember when music was unknown to me." His first teacher of music was Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay. Then he got Bishnu Chandra Chakrabarty as his music teacher. He was also the music teacher of Tagore family. An example of the song he taught,
"Chandra Surya har meneche jonak jwale bati" But the method of teaching of Bishnu Chandra was different from that of the modern teacher.
Rabindranath was learning wrestling and gymanastic. At the same time he  was also taking traing of Stick game.
Writing of poetry of Rabindranath was going as usual and the news spread not only within the house but also  outside it. Gubinda Babu, superintendent of the school [Normal], asked Rabindranath to write a poetry . Rabindranath did it . He wrote a poetry on common good feeling.[sadbhab]
Writing of poetry of Rabindranath was going as usual and the news spread not only within the house but also outside it. Gubinda Babu, superintendent of the school [Normal], asked Rabindranath to write a poetry . Rabindranath did it . He wrote a poetry on common good feeling.[sadbhab] 
 Rabindranath followed a time table from 4 am to 9 pm consisting of study, games and music.
He wrote , " the Bengali literature was very short. I have finished all the books readable or not readable. " He wrote that he read " Krittibas, Kashiram Das, Bibidhartha Sangraha , Arabyupanyas, Bangla Rabinsoa cruso, sushilar upakhyan, life sketch of Raja Pratapaditya Roy, Betal Panchbingsati, etc sufficient books at that time.
The time mentioned here a book titled  ' jamai barik' written by Dinobandhu Mitra [20 march 1872]. Some distant relatives of Rabindranath read the book. He did not attend the age and the person in concerned was not willing  to hand over the book to him. He put the book in a box under lock and key and kept the key in his pocket. Rabindranath, after many attempts, got the book and read that.
Rabindranath knew Bengali well but he knew little of English. He wrote, " in my childhood, when I knew little of English, I read many books with pictures titled "Old Curiosity Shop" from top to bottom."
A central idea protected him from being poisoned. Once his elder brother Dwijendranath instrucyed him to keep celibacy.  

Recapitulation of Indian school Education of Rabindranath (contd-1)

Rabindranath , Somendranath and Satya Prasad ended their study in Normal School [a Bengali School] and were admitted to an Anglo Indian School Bengal Academy [an  English medium]. They  started their education from March 1872 in Bengal Academy in class VII.  DeCruz, an European was the principal of the school at that time.   Rabindranath mentioned, in short, the difference between the two schools. " The students of this school were miscreant but not disgusting.. They also did  some mischievous act but those did not give a scar on the mind, they simply put some mark on the body. These are all disturbing but not disgraceful.. So I thought that I climbed on the stone leaving my foot from the mud.For that, my foot may be cut but I was relived of the dirt."
Rabindranath thought that their teaching was better in the previous school and there was none to look after. As a result this period of learning was totally failure. Though in this period of study there were some obstruction due to different reasons. At first the study was obstructed due to the Dengu epidemic secondly the study was obstructed due to their wearing of sacred thread. In both the occasions Rabindranath was out of station . First he had gone to Panihati with his family members and secondly he had gone to Himalayas with his father.
Rabindranath discontinued his study in Bengal Academy from Feb to June. He again began going to school from Jun 1873. But his relation with Bengal Academy was not sweet. He continued dropping of school with several excuses , sometimes with the help of Munshi. He used the roof of the outer house for his resting place after dropping out from the school . He also used the roof of 2nd floor for this purpose.
The chapter of Bengal Academy ended less than two years , Dec 1873..The they joined st. Xaviers Collegiate School in Feb 1875. Though they were admitted for some days in Metropolitan School they didn't attend the school.The whole of 1874 they relieved from attending any school. Rabindranath and his two classmates were admitted in Fifth Year's Class, equivalent to class IX or pre-entrance class.
Rabindranath continued dropping out of school even in St.Xaviers school.St. xaviersCollege record shows that Somendranath and Satyaprasad were promoted to the next higher class i.e.,entrance class But Rabindranath could not. either he did not sit for the examination or he got plucked probably the first one is correct. Here is the end of Rabibdranath's School life in India.
Rabindranath studied in four Indian Schools from infant to Class IX during 1865 to 1875 , 1.Calcutta Training Academy, 2. Govt. Pathsala, 3. Bengal Academy and 4. St. Xaviers Collegiate School.

Recapitulation of Indian School Education of Rabindranath

The beginning of education of Rabindranath started in 1864 under Madhab Chandra Mukhopadhyay when his age was 3 years 4 months. the name of the book he first read was Sishu Shiksha 1st Part.written by Madanmohan Tarkalankar, for learning alphabets. As because in Vidyasagar's Barna Parichay First Part the letters long Rhi and long Li were absent which  he had acquaintance with those letters from Sishu Siksha, first part. This is proved from the poem written by him (draft) in Pocket his Book,

Duiburho rhi rhi  [ long rhi]

Chale dhiri dhiri /

Dui bon li li [long li]

 Hase khili khli /                 

Rabindranath's first read book was "Sisu Bodhak"

Somendranath, Satya Prasad and Rabindranath was admitted in Kolkata Training Academy {first admission]in April 1865, situated at 13 Cornwalis Street and not in Oriental Seminary.. Rabindranath was of age 3 years and 10 months. Three of them got admitted at the same time though Rabindranath join them after  few months, at the end of the year.
Rabindranath's education in Calcutta Training Academy ended in Sept. 1865, before Puja vacation. 1.He was admitted at the end of 1864 , may be in Dec. 1864. Hence the duration of his school life in Calcutta Training Academy was 10 months (appr).
2.After Puja vacation he was admitted in Nov 1865 in Govt. Pathsala when his age was 4 yrs and six months.
The reason for change of this school was probably either the method of teaching of this school was not upto the mark  or the distance of Cornwallis Street from Jorasanko which was much for the children. Where as the Govt. Pathsala or Normal School is very near to their house. Also the school bus was available for the students.
Rabindranath was admitted in Infant Class in Govt. Pathsala, in Nov 1865. The selected books in that class were Barnashiksha, Dharapath (multiplication table), and books for handwriting. The headmaster of the school was Gopal Chandra Bandyopadhyay and the Superintendent was Gobinda Chandra Bandyopadhyay.
Rabindranath remembrered some Kailas Mukherjee who recited nice poems to him. He also remembered "Bristi pare tapur tapur, nadey elo ban".
In the childhood of Rabindranath Tagore the house of Jorasanko was full of joy..
In the life of Rabindranath changes of schools was a phenomenon. But the duration of his study in the Govt. Pathsala was longest.   It was termed by Rabindranath and others as Normal school.But they were different though their Managing Committee and school premises were same .The Primary object contemplated in the establishment of the Pathsala were to provide a system of national education, and to instruct Hindoo youths in literature and in the sciences of India and a broad, though the medium would be  Bengali Language.
Even if the school was sometimes referred as Normal School it was Calcutta Govt. Pathsala or Calcutta model School.
Rabindranath, Somendranath and Satyaprasad was admitted in Govt.Pathsala in Nov. 1865 and every new session began in January. Hence it seemed that they had been promoted to  the next class i.e.,class I in 1866. The amount spent for purchasing their books were not much which signified that the list of their books were small.
Srijukta Nilkamal Ghosal, teacher of Govt. Pathsala, was appointed as their private tutors.
From the "Hindoo Patriot" it was known that there were nine classes in every govt. school- one Sishu Sreni, 5 in junior section and 3 in senior section.
In St.Xaviers Collegiate School there were 8 classes. 2 elementary classes, I to V, and 1 entrance class.
Bipin Chandra Pal [1858-1932] said that there were 8 classes in our school . counted from 1st or entrance class to the last or infant class.
There were three scholarship examinations in the time of Rabindranath. 1. Primary Scholarship, 2. Minor Scholarship,& 3.Junior or Entrance scholarship. Rabindranath did not sit for any scholarship examination but the syllabus he had to cover was given as follows ;
In 1863 there was an advertisement in Somprakasin in Feb 1863 which covers the syllabus of First two scholarship examination.
Boys with 10 years of age are to sit for examination with the following syllabus.
Bengali Literature; Charupath prathom bhag - Ranjit Singher life sketch, Poetry reciting, dictation writing, Handwriting.
Grammer - Sandhi, Linga, kriya, Karak.
Geography - World atlas and Indian map drawing.
History - History of Bengali 2nd part.
 Arithmetic - Upto trairasik
Boys with ages 11, 12 and 13 are to sit for examination with this syllabus.
Bengali Literature - Naba Prabandsar, Telemax 1st part , poetry reading, dictation and Handwriting
Grammar - Sandhi, Linga, Kriya, Karak, Samas
History - History of Bengali 2nd part, Indian History by Krishna Chandra Roy .
Geography - Drawing of map of the four parts of the world by Tarinicharan Krishna and maps of all                      countries of Asia.
Arithmetic - Upto simple fraction.
Next year i.e., 1864  for minor scholarship examination ; Sitar Banabas, Byakaran, Charupath 3rd part, poetry reading, history of Bengal q1st and 2nd part. Indian History, Physical Science, Mental arithmetic, Hygiene, supervision of Zamindary, Simple economics, Letter writing, geography, arithmetic and geometry.
Some additional subjects had been included in this syllabus.
Syllabus for 1866. [vernacular scholarship]
Bengali Literature - Essays of Harinath Sarma, Jnankur of Nabakrishna Bandyopadhyay, Sadbhab                                 satak ; by Krishna Chandra Majumdar.
Grammar - sandhi, linga, karak, kriyapad, dhatu, samas. Descriptive and implicative essays
Arithmetic - Simple and decimal fraction, simple and compound interest, square root, mensuration of                     2- dimension, mental arithmetic.

Geometry - Euclid 1st part.
Natural Philosophy - 1st 8 chapter of Natural Philosophy 1st part by Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay
History - Indian history 1st part by Tarini Charan , British India by Krishna Chandra
Geography - Geography by Tarini Charan except India, India Geography by Sashibhusan;map                                   drawing of important historical place.

Additional Subject - Zamindary system by Dinabandhu Mukhopadhyay, Patra Kaumudi, Political                                         Economy by Rajkrishna, Hegiene by Radhikaprasanna Mukhopadhyay.
Upper age limit of Vdernacular scholarship was 15 years of age.
This was the type of syllabus followed by Rabindranath. 2nd elder brother Hemendranath taught                                     them more of the above syllabus.
In 1867, Rabindranath promoted to class II in Govt. Pathsala.
In this class they studied Bodhoday after finishing Barnaparichay 2nd Part.,Primary lesson of Geography, history, hygiene and first four rules of arithmetic, Bodhaday of Ishwar Chandra was within their syllabus.
He got acquaintance with Ramayana from their servant Ishwar Chandra.
He got the idea of infinite dimension of universe from his Pandit and his imaginative power were gradually extended.
Rabindranath promoted to class III in 1868 in Normal School.
Nilkamal Ghosal was working as a private tutor to them (Rabindranath, Somendranath and  and Satyaprasad) appointed on Oct 1866 and was teaching in the morning 6 am to 9-30 am. From this year (1868) Rabindranath was formally learning English though it was not teaching his school. He started reading The first book of Reading [1853] by Parry Charan Sarkar. Rabindranath wrote in Chelebala " When the students of our age were fluently reading 'I am up' Ami hai upare , He is down-Tini han niche , then my knowledge did not reach to B-A-D bad, M-A-D . the book he referred was not First Book of Reading .
This was the time of Rabindranath to begin "creating of poetry".He started creating of poetry in Blue papered Khata got from the personals of the family office.
Rabindranath started class IV in 1869 at Normal School.
Nilkamal Ghosh and Aghor Nath Chattopadhyay for English continued as home tutor. Before the appointment of Aghornath , Rakhal Das datta was performing the same duty. Rabindranath and Somendranath started lesson from First Book of Reading.
Sejadada , Hemendranath was in charge of guiding their lessons. Rabindranath staarted wrestling, gymnastic , stick game.
Rabindranath sat for the annual examination in Bengali under the second teacher (Pandit) Madhusudan Bachaspati . Rabindranath got highest mark in the examination . at this Haranath pandit complained to the authority about the partiality taken by Madhusudan Bachaspaty. Rabindranath was re-examined under strict supervision of the Superintendent . But this time also  Rabindranath got the highest mark. This was the academic credit earned by Rabinadranath in Class IV of Normal School.
Rabindranath promoted to Class V in 1870 in Normal School.
This year their syllabus was a bit heavy. Physics by Akshoy Kumar Datta. Rabindranath commented that in Physics there were no sign for Material.Hemendranath was in favour of lessons on different subjects. Under the private tutor Aghornath Chattopadhyay Second Book of Reading by Parry Charan Sircar.They had started English Grammer. Sitanath Datta taught Natural Science with the help of instruments.
Beginning of Class VI in 1871 in Normal School.
Rabindranath mentioned in Jibansmriti that he did not receive any prize (academic) in the school. Only once he got a prize for good conduct." Satya was brilliant student among the three. Once he got a prize in class promotion.Rabindranath joyfully called "Gundada Satya got a prize. " Gundada asked , "you did not receive any prize ?"
Rabindranath described his daily time table.
They get up from bed before the sun rises. Put on short pant to practice wrestling. Training of bones of human body from a medical student. At 7 am to 9 am under Nilkamal Ghosal study of .Physics, Meghnad Badh Kaabya, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, history, Geography,  After this we had to go to school taking our bath and food. After the school hours, at 4-30 pm gymnastic and drawing. at the evening English study under Aghornath Chattopadhyay upto 9 pm.
In Dec 1871, Rabindranath promoted to Class VII in Normal School. But his life in Normal school or in Bengali School ended. In Feb 1872 study in Normal School ended when he was a student of class 
After leaving Normal School he was admitted in an Anglo Indian school namely Bengal Academy at the end of 1872.
Our prestige increased at this stage. Their dresses were categorically changed.
The merits of Rabindranath was gradually increasing in different directions.
Debendranath wrote in a letter dt.31Dec 1971 from Amritsar to Bacharam Chattopadhyay, an important leader of Brahmmo Samaj, " I became glad to learn that Rabindranath and others  joined
in the Meditation at Behala.I haven't listen anything about their teaching in Brahmanism". This informs us that Rabindranath joined  in the 18th session of Brahmo Samaj (15tnh Nov) in Behala as a singer.
The sixth annual session of Hindoo Mela was held on 13th Feb.in the garden house at Kashipore of Rajabaidyanath Roy . To report of this session National Paper wrote in a column, "..A young lad also rose and chanted exempore verses dwelling upon the great virtues of Rama. Then rose also many other young lads and read little excellent pieces of poems."It may be imagined that the young lad was none but Rabindranath.
Gunendranath and Jyotirindranath were attending office building of Debendranath. Actually it was not a office building but but a place for club. Gunendranath after entering the office usually took his seat in an easy chair. At this opportunity Rabindranath sat on his lap. Gunendranath used to narrate history of India and said that Clive was the person responsible establishing British Rule in India but Clive got suicide with the help of a razor. Sometimes he discovered that a copy book was hidden in the pocket of Rabindranath. Rabindranath wrote, " I wrote some poem titled Bharat Mata. In that poem there was a line ending "NIKATE", I could not find a suitable word fit to get a rythm . at last I used the word "Sakate". On hearing Gunendranath laughed in a loud voice. ".

Talent of Rabindranath (contd-8); Malati Punthi

The first manuscript of Rabindranath was blue coloured papers got from the office. Though nothing from this manuscript came out as a printing material.The second manuscript was a hard bound Khata known as "Letts' Diary" where he wrote Prthirajer Parajay. probably, Abhilas, Hindumelar Upahar etc poems  were  written in that diary. The third manuscript of Rabindranath was Malati Punthi , the oldest Manuscript of Rabindranath received.
In the first part of 1943 Prof. Malati Sen of Lady Arwin School, Delhi, gifted the  manuscript to Rabindrabhaban through the hands of ex-Principal of Rabindrabhaban Dhirendramohan sen. The name of the manuscript , Malati Punthi, was given after her name. Sudhindra Kumar Sen [died 1919], brother of Mrs.Sen, was an admirer of Rabindranath. After his initiative a Literature Forum was created at their former residence at Lahore. After many days of his death the manuscript was discovered at his library. Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyay , biographer of Rabindranath, inferred how the Manuscript came in the hands of Sudhindra Kumar Sen. It may be that Rabindranath once have given the manuscript to Saratkumari Choudhurani, resident of Lahore and wife of Akshay Chandra Choudhury. She was one of the associates of Sudhindra Kumar and he got it from her.
After  few days of its inclusion in the library of Rabindra Bhavan Prof. Prabodhchandra Sen in an essay titled "Rabindranather Balyrachana" wrote in a short description , "the manuscript was really a big bounded khata. But now the stitching of it had turned to be broken and the pages were damaged. The hard coloured cover of one side is still there. the cover of the other side along with some pages were lost. Now the pages recovered had been laminated and kept in the library of Rabindrabhavan with 231 memoirs. The size of the cover of the newly bounded book is 9 &1/2 by 6 & 3/4 and the size of the pages is 8 &1/2 by 5 & 1/2 ". At present the manuscript is preserved by Microfilm. The manuscript obtained are of 76 pages.                        

Talent of Rabindranat (contd-7)-last school attended

 Rabindrnath and his two class mates were admitted in "fifth year's Class" in St.Xaviers Collegiate School - the next class of which was Entrance class i.e., Rabindranath was admitted in Class IX. There were 40 students in the class. Roll no. of Rabindranath was 36. This information was received in the school diary of 1875 noticed in the Calender of St.Xaviers College , 1976.
Rabindranath took the help of Munshi during dropping out from Bengal Academy but now he had to take his own help to drop out from St.Xaviers' School. From his childhood Rabindranath possessed sound health. Only in three cases he had some illness.
The most important incident in this year in  Rabindranath's mother Sarada Devi died on 10th 1875 when Rabindranath was 13 years 10 months only.
An important chapter began in  Rabindranath's life as a poet in this year [1875] and i.e., the acquaintance  of Baishnab Literature.
The readers of History Of Bengali Literaturee know that almost all the branches of Bengali literature  after the time of Chaitanya were full love story between Radha and Krishna. But this gradually deteriorated in all the camps of Baishnabis for their misappropriation of the sacred thoughts in Baishnab literature and the then learned persons became disgusted with their behaviour. This was first changed by Madhusudan Datta who wrote Brajangana Kabya [1861] and the frustration of the learned persons were removed.
Rabindranath took the responsibility of writing a series of poems following Bidyapati in the pseudonym of Bhanu Singh titled Bhanu Singher Padabali.

Talent of Rabindranath (contd-6) - Alternative opinion

Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay quoted the news below from the Indian Daily News dated 15 Feb 1875;
" The Hindoo Mela " - The ninth anniversary of the Hindoo Mela was opened at 4 PM, on Thursday, the 11 th instant, at the well known Parsebagan ...on the Circular Road , by rajah Kamal Krishna , Bahadoor,the President of the National Society...../Baboo Rabindranath Tagore, the younest son of Baboo Debendranath Tagore, a handsome lad of 15, had composed a Bengali poem on Bharat (India) which he delivered from memory;the suavity of his tone much pleased his audience.
As per this description the ninth anniversary of Hindoo Mela was inaugurated  under the president ship of Raja Kamal Krishna Bahadoor  on 11 Feb 1875,  and Rabindranath [though mentioned to be age 15, but actually he was 13 years 9 months] had recited a poem "Bharat".
Jogesh Bagal in his book Hindoo Melar Itibritta mentioned that this is the first time when Rabindranath at the age of 14 , openly recited a poem in a public programme.
It was known for many days that in the inauguration Rabindranath recited a poem titled " Hindoo Melar Upahar" which was published in bi-lingual paper "Amrita Bazar Patrika on Thursday 25 th Feb !875. signed Sri rabindranath Thakur.
But a few years ago, Rathindranath Ghatak Choudhury in his article "Rabindranather Ekti Dusprapya Kabita" reprinted  a poem of 80 lines titled ,"Hok Bharaate Jay" and changed the thoughts kept in mind by readers for a good number of years. This was published in the magazine "Bandhab" edited by Kaliprasanna Ghosh and published from Dhaka.
   

Talent of Rabindranath (contd-5)-Discontinuation from School

Returning from the Himalayas after a tour with his father, Debendranath, Rabindranath created a feeling to all the members of his family which resulted high hopes about him. But his attitude was not in accordance his subsequent behavior . His elder brothers tried to send him to school several times but failed. Lastly they gave up the hope of sending him to school. One day my eldest sister , Bardidi, said, "we hoped that Rabi will change after being grown up. But their hopes were dwindled away." Rabindranath felt that his status was gradually decreasing in the society of Gentleman.  His reproach took the shafe in the poem, Abhilash;

Oi dakho pustaker prachir majhare

Din raatri aar swasthya kariteche byay

Pauchite tomar o dwarer sammukhe

Lekhanire kariyache sopan saman. [6th stabak]

Just after the month of Publishing Abhilash in Tattwabodhini, an essay about astrology, titled "Grahagan jiber abasbhumi" was published in Paus issue.After this Rabindranath's talent was expressed before a huge gathering of learned persons when he recited a own written poem in the ninth anniversary of Hindu Mela. The different papers  published the information mentioning his name. Previously, his journey to Himalayas was published without his name in "Somprakash" paper and his name was published in printed form in Tattwabodhini but this time his name was published in  English daily papers and in weekly magazines, which was read by huge number of learned persons. The importance of this incident was unique.

  

Talent of Rabindranath (contd -4)- Hindu Mela

Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay quoted from Indian Daily News dated 15 Feb 1875;
"The Hindu Mela"; The ninth anniversary of the Hindu Mela was opened at 4 pm, on Thursday, the 11th instant , at the well known Parseebagan ....on the Circular Road , by Rajesh Kamal Krishna, Bahadur, the president of the National Society .../Baboo Rabindranath Tagore, the youngest son of Baboo DebendranathTagore, a handsome lad of some 15, had composed a Bengali poemon Bharat (India) which he delivered from memory, the sauvity of his tone much pleased his audience. "
According to this description the 11th Feb 1875, Raja Kamal Krishna Bahadur being on the chair,
the 9th Annual session of Hindu Mela was held and Rabindranath , actual age being 13 years 9 months, recited a poem on Bharat written by him.
Jogesh Chandra Bagal  in his book "Hindu Melar Itibritta" [1375] wrote, "this is the first time a young boy of 14 years old recited a own written poem as a " Gift to Hindu Mela". This information was published in Bengalee on 20 th Feb 1875.
The news of the long poem, "Hindu Melar Upahar" recited by Rabindranath in the ninth session was published in Bilingual magazine Amrita Bazar Patrika on 25 Feb 1875. This is the first poem published in the name of Rabindranath .    
The life as a poet of Rabindranath started from this year when he came to understand Baishnab Sahitya. At the medieval age in all the avenues of Banga Sahitya the love story of Radhakrishna took a prominent part. This is known from the History of Bengali Literature . But subsequently the system became polluted due to moral turpitude of the followers of Baishnab Sahitya. Poet Madhusudan first wrote a Kabya " Brajangana Kabya" [1861] to remove the immorality of the then Baishnab Sahitya.   The learned Bengalees gradually became again attracted to this literature.
This was the first   series of poems written in a pseudonym Bhanusingh  by Rabindranath.He discussed in different essays of Vidyapati's Padabali leading to the publication of "An introduction to the Maithili language of north Bihar containing a grammar , Chrestomathy & Vocabulary.[1882].

Talent of Rabindranath (contd-3) - First meeting with Ishwar Chandra

By this time the teacher Ramsarbaswa Vidyabhusan of Metropolitan School in place of Harinath Bhattacharya and Dwipendranath, Arunendranath, Nitindranath, Sudhindranath were transferred from Normal School to Metropolitan School in Jan 1875. Though he was not satisfied with the performance of his students, he was glad to see the talent of the boy [Rabindranath]. One day he fetched Rabindranath to Vidyasagar to show his translation of Macbeth. Rabindranath wrote , "the room where Vidyasagar was sitting  , full of Books,  and Rajkrishna Mukhopadyay was sitting there. On seeing this Rabindranath was getting trembled in his breast. Ramkrishna Babu advised him to recite the portion where the dialogue of the she-devil and some peculiarities in the  rhymes ."
Rabindanath wrote about this translation of the Macbeth in Jibansmriti, "Luckily, the translation was lost. Otherwise I had carry the weight of deeds."
Sajani Kanta Das mentioned that the translation was word by word. The translation of Macbeth was as follows;
The first scene of the first chapter of Macbeth was complete, the first part of the third scene and first part of the first scene of 4th Anka was wonderful. One might see the merit of the translation.
Jnanchandra Bhattacharya had taught not only Macbeth but also Kumarsaambhab of Kalidas. Rabindranath said that the three Sargas which he taught was committed to his memory.

Jnanchandra Bhattacharya also made Rabindranath acquainted with another poets , Kalidas. Rabindranath had deep regards to both the poems, Kalidas and Shakespeare.Rabindranath translated many slokas of Third sarga which he  translated in payar rythm . Part of this slokas was published in  Bharati magazine in Magh 1284.   

The slokas 62 and 63 rewritten form;

Uma o jaman tare karila pranam 

Sunila aloka shovi nabak[rnikar]

Khasia abanitale parila[amani] {62}

Ananyabhajan pati lav kara bali

Ashisila mahadev ; jatharta ashis

Uccharita haila jadi ishwarer bani

kavu biparit artha na hay ghatan. [63]

This year in Agrhayan issue a poem, written by Rabindranath, with 39 lines was published in Tattwabodhini. At the bottom of the poem it was written a twelve year old boy wrote this. No name was published.

In the life time of Rabindranath Sajanikanta Das discovered this in Nov 1939 which Rabindranath unequivocally agreed. It was written in 1873. This poem Abhilas was a protest launched by Rabindranath against a statement Bankim Chandra. 

Talent of Rabindranath (contd-2)- John Beames

John Beams,IAS [1837-1902] had done many research work on Philology of Bengali literature and wrote books 1. Outlines of Indian Philology [1867], 2. Comparative Grammar of the modern Aryan languages of India, 3 vols [ 1872-79] and  3. A grammar of thge Bengali Language, literary and coloquial [1894].
John Beames (21 June 1837 – 24 May 1902) was a civil servant in British India and an author. He served in the Punjab from March 1859, to late 1861 and in Bengal from December 1861 until the conclusion of his service in 1893. He was also a scholar of Indian history, literature and linguistics. His great work was a comparative grammar of Indo-Aryan languages, published in 3 volumes in 1872–1879.
While serving in Baleshwar, Orissa, as a collector he wrote a booklet suggesting formation of a Parishad to discuss about Bengali language [Suggestions for the formation of an academy of literature in Bengali by John Beams ]
There had been much improvement in the English, The French, the Germany, The italian; and the Spanish with joint effort, Beams mentioned.
The famous writer of Bengali literature, Rajnarayan Basu gave a lecture for three hours on the proposed "Bangla Sahityer Bhasa O Riti sangsthapani Sabha" on 11 Aug 1873. The minutes of the lecture was published in different papers .
Ultimately, Jyotirindranath and Rabindranath formed The Bengal Academy of Literature or Bangiya Sahitya Parishad on 23 Jul 1893.