Rabindranath in Ahmedabad,

Palace at Sahibag, where Rabindranath stayed with his elder brother Satyendranath before going to London and this palace was used as a plot of Kshudita Pashan, a drama.
Rabindranath wrote," I was uprooted from the ground and planted in a separate field in a new environment. "
Satyendranath had a good library. The books were arranged in the holes of the wall. Rabindranath picked up a book of Tennyson with pictures. A solitary room at the top of the palace was alloted to him. In moonlit night he used to roam about on the roof. This was the first time he he gave gave tuning to his song .  narrated vividly in Jibansmriti. The first lines of the song ,"Niraba rajani dekha magna jochanay / dhire dhire ati dhire ati dhire gao go "  . This song was included in Bhagna Hriday and was published in Bharati ,  The music notation was published in Swaralipi Gitimala of Jyotirindranath.
The song "Balio amar golapabala" was published in Bharati , Agrahayan issue. Non-resident Bengalee, Rabindranath had close contact with Calcutta. Rabindranath was preparing himself at the same he was working  with his Songs and Kabyas.
English knowledge of Rabindranath was not satisfactory. He used to read all English books with the help of a dictionary. He could understand very little but he was not bothered and was satisfied with what he could follow. He was brought all the books of History of English literature.
Rabindranath went to Bombay at Dr. Atmaram Panduram's residence under his hospitality on Aug 1878.

Rabindranath at 16

In the year 1284 [1877] Bharati published only 9 issues . For easy calculation 1285 was taken as 2nd year of publication of Bharati. In the last issue Rabindranath was accepted as a member of editorial board. When 2nd issue of 2nd year was going to be published , Rabindranath began to be  ready to go to  Ahmedabad  before going to London. Though he was busy in selecting and editing the articles to be published , he was at a long distance when the printing was going. In the present issue only the introduction of articles of Rabindranath would be given.
In the index of  Baishakh issue the essay of Rabindranath titled "Samudrik Jib" was published.

These were the translated poetry collected from Malati punthi.

Satyendranath  came to Calcutta to fetch Rabindranath to Ahmedabad. Satyendranath was posted as assistant collector and Magistrate on 27the April 1865 After different changes he was posted in 19 April 1876 as a district and session judge [temp]. His official quarter was Sahibaug.

He was given a Govt. quarter at Sahibag. Rabindranath gave the detailed description of the palace at Sahibag.

This was a palace built for the king in Muslim period. At the base of the palace thin stray of the river Sabarmati flows. An open roof overlooked the river. Rabindranaath wrote that they were born and brought up at Calcutta where historical evidence was absent.after coming to Ahmedabad he found that the history suddenly stopped here and the  stories were all buried underground.

He gave a vivid description in his story titled Kshudita Pashan after a long period.

The main reason of his coming to Ahmedabad was to prepare himself fit for going to London. The English books purchased to make him known the styles of UK.

  Rabindranath wrote 3 articles in Bharati in 1st issue of 2nd year.

1. Bhanusingher Kabita, 2. Samudrik Jib/Kitanu, an essay, 3. Karuna, a novel.

At first there was tuning , Imankalyan, in Bhanusinger Kabita. Subsequently, that was lost.  

  While writing the essay Samudrik jib, Rabindranath was studying an English book on Science and this essay was a result of that reading. It was difficult to be taken as  written Rabindranath because at the end of the essay the letter "Bha" in Bengali. Probably, wanted to express his joy for the ensuing sea voyage to go to London.
Karuna , a novel to be published in serial.

Hindumela

Ultimately Hindu Mela was established under direct sponsorship of Thakur Bari , [this is also known as Jatiya Mela or Chaitra Mela]. The programme of the Mela prepared by Rajnarayan Basu was the point of inspiration. The main initiative was taken by Nabagopal Mitra , class mate of Satyendranath Thakur and editor of "The National Paper". Jorasanko Thakur Bari was full of environment of Nationalism. So this proposal was heartily accepted by them. Dwijendranath was one of the main observer. Ganendranath joined this enthusiastically  like the playing of Nabanatak. He became the secretary and Nabagopal Mitra was the assistant secretary to organise the 1st session  of Hindu Mela at the garden house at Chitpur of Raja Narasinha Bahadur on 12 April 1867. The first session was organised within less than a month The one of the enthusiast worker drama writer Manmohan Basu. Though this was arranged with  a small preparation.On the day of establishment some friends. All the important personalities like debendranath, Digambar Mitra, Jatindra Mohan Thakur, Durgacharan Saha, Upendramohan Thakur, Kaliprasanna Thakur, Kaliprasanna Sinha, Parychand Mitra, Girish Chandra Ghosh,[editor of Bengali paper.]Pary charan sarkar, Kailas chandra Basu,Jaygopal Sen,Prasad das Mallik, Kalikrishna Thakur were the sponsors. Hindu Mela has strong influence not only on Tagore family but also on whole of Bengal and India.
The  organisations Jamidar Sabha estabilished by Dwarakanath Thakur. British Indian association or Indian association established by Anandamohan Basu and Surendranath Banerjee had limited connection with the public. Hindu Mela or Jatiya mela was established with a broad idealism.  

Bharati Patrika O Rabindranath

In the paper Jnanankur O Pratibimba Kabya Upanyas, Banaful and Pralap bunch of poems started publishing. In the present year the list of publication are as follows;
4/6, Baisakh p-278-280 Pralap
4/7, Jaishtha p-316-318 Banaful
            ,,       p-318-319 Banaful
4.9 Shraban p-420-425 Banaful
4.10 Bhadra p-458-461, Banaful
4/12 Kartik, p-467-71, banaful
The most important incident in the life of Rabindranath was the publication of Bharati Patrika.in 1284 [1877] at his age of 16.

Bharati a Bangla periodical. It was first published in 15 Sravan, 1284 BS (29 July 1877). jyotirindranath Tagore (1849-1925) pioneered the publication of this literary magazine. Dwijendranath Tagore (1840-1926) was its editor. Rabindranath contributed three pieces for the first issue and very soon the Bharati became a prominent periodical. The Bharati combined analytical discussions on literature, science, geography, theory of knowledge, current topics, local history, and theatre, along with progressive political articles. It became the upholder of nationalist ideas during the editorship of Sarala Devi.

The Bharati has a very interesting editorial history. After Dwijendranath (1284-1290 BS), Swarnakumari Devi (1291-1301) took charge and worked hard to keep up the uniqueness of this excellent journal. It was conspicuous by its regularity, lucidity and wide acclaim among critics. Hiranmayi Devi and Sarala Devi jointly took charge as editors for the years 1302-1304, and Rabindranath was its editor for a year (1305).

Rabindranath Tagore with eminent Bengali writers.

Sitting: From right- Satyendranath Dutta, Jatindramohan Bagchi, Karunanidhan Bandopadhyaya.

Standing : from right- Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya, Manilal Gangopadhyaya, Dwijendra Narayan Bagchi, Charuchandra Bandopadhyaya.

( This picture was taken in 1912 immediately before a trip to England. He got the Nobel Prize in 1913.

Tattwabodhini was a paper published from Thakur Bari and some writings of Rabindranath was also published in this paper. But this was a religious paper of Brahmmo Society. and could serve the purpose of a Sahitya Patrika. The eminent paper in Bengali was Bangadarsan of Bankim Chandra. After few days Jnanankur , Aryadarsan,Bandhab, Pratibimba etc famous patrikas were published. In many of these patrikas some writings  of Rabindranath were published . Publication of Bangadarsan of Bankimchandra  was stopped after publication of 4 years. It was published under the editorial ship of Sanjib chandra but the previous glory was not re-established. After publication for few days Pratimba was amalgamated with Jnanankur. Bhramar stopped publicationafter one year three months. Bandhab was published irregularly for three years and the stopped for a year to reopen in 1285.

Rabindranath wrote a poem Kabir Nir after completion of forty years. 

Jyotirindranath published Bharati for the sake of Rabindranath and Akshay Choudhury.
Rabindranath was in the habit of reading all books he came across.He wrote in Jibansmririti that he could not gather much knowledge by all these likew Jamaibarik and turned into what is called Jyathami  and the result is the publication of a short story titled Karuna in Bharati.

In the first year first issue a poetry "bhikharini' of Rabindranath was published.

In each issue of Bharati, at least one writings of Rabindranath was published.  

In the issue   Ashwin  1287 of Bharati [p-292-93] part of the translation of Macbeth written by Rabindranath titled Dakini;Macbeth was published.  

In the first year of the publication a critical study of Meghnad Bad Kabya written by Rabindranath was published.A story titled Karuna written by Rabindranath at his early age was published in Bharati.

A picture of Binapani drawn on the cover of Bharati was the same as the picture drawn on the top of the back screen.
Rabindranath translated some poems from Moore's Irish Melodies of which one titled "Bicched"in 7th issue of the first year.. Rabindranath also translated poems of Byron titled which was also printed in Bharati.. 

Publication of Rabindranath within 15 years of age

year............................................write up...................................................published
1869                    Paulabarjani-translation in serial                                  Abodhbandhu
1873                       Prithirajparajay - Natyakabya                                       Malati punthi
                                   Essays on Astrology -serial                                    Tattwabodhini
1874                Macbeth O Kumarsambhab -translation                     some portion in Bharati
                                    in Bengali in poetry form
                                          Abhilas - Poetry                                                 Tattwabodhini
1875                         Hindumelar Upahar - poetry                          Bilingual Amritabazar patrika
                       Jwal Jwal chita dwigun dwigun- song                                  sarojini natak
                                         Banafool - kabya                                    Jnanankur - in serial from
                                                                                                     Agrahayan 1282 to kartik 1283
1876                        Bhubanmohini Pratva - essay                            Jnanankur
                                  Pralap - lyrics                                                      Lettratis' diary
                                        Prakritir khed - poetry                                         ,,
                             Ek sutre bandhiyachi sahasrati jiban - song                sarojini
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Jnanankur # 59 Jnanankur o Pratibimba # 60 Jyotirangan # 61 Kanchdapara Prakashika # 62 Karnadhar # 63 Khristiya Bandhab.
Let us see the publication made by Rabindranath within 15 years of age. It was already seen that Banafool kabya upanyas and Pralaap bunch of poems. began to publish in "Jnankur O Pratibimba".
Within Chaitra 1282three sarga of Banaful and two bunches of Pralaap were published . In the present year the publication of Rabindranath was as follows;
4/6 , Baisakh, p-278-80 Pralaap
4/7, Jaishtha , p-316-18, Banafool 4th sarga
4/9, Shraban, p-420-25, Banafool kabya. 6th sarga.
4/10, Bhadra p-458-61, Banafool Kabya, 7th sarga
4/12, Kartik, p-467-71, Banafool Kabya 8th sarga.
In the  issue  of wrote that Sadharani, 5th Asharh Rabindranath's poetry printed at the last page was beautiful. This was first  comment on Rabindranath's poetry by his name.The criticism on banafool was published in Chaitra of Jnanankur which said Banaful was nice.The idea of his poetry was taken from Jaydeb and it took double the strength by mixing with the lyrics of Shelly.
In the lifetime of Rabindranath Pralaap was not added to any book.
When he published his Saishab Sangeet in 1884 containing poems written between 13 to 18 age, he did not include Pralaap but he added Abhilas, Hindumaler Upahar, Prakritir Khed. Pralaap was taken in the Centenary publication series by Govt. of W.B. Banafool first took the shape of a book in 9th Mar 1880. Rabindranath wrote in Jibansmriti that Somendranath printed this book being partial to me. This was again taken in unpublished work of rabindranath in 1940.The issue of Jnanankur O Pratimimba  where the last portion of Banafool was published, an essay in prose Titled Bhuban Mohini Prativa , abasar sarojini and Dukkh sangini was also published.This essay also was not taken in any book in the Lifetime of Rabindranath. This was taken in Vishwabharati Patrika in 1369.
Rabindranath gave an explanation of his essay, Bhuban Mohini Prativa in Jibansmriti.
An essay titled Pralaap Sagar was published in Jnanankur O pratibimba by an unknown writer which was claimed to be written by Rabindranath by Dr. Sukumar Sen.
At this time Rabindranath wrote four songs which were sung in Hindu Mela.  

Music training of Rabindranath

Rabindranath said that he could not remember when he could not sing.
Rabindranath got his music training  from four teachers.
1. Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay,
2. Bishnu Chandra Chakrabarty,
3.Jadunath Bhattacharya, &
4. Srikanthya Singha.

Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay was the first music teacher of Rabindranath.

Bishnu Chandra Chakrabarty and his elder brother Krishna Chakrabarty were paid teachers of Brahmo Society since the time of Rammohan Roy. Even after the death of  Rammohan he remained as paid teacher.
Indira Debi wrote to Prasanta Kumar Paul that Bishnu Chakrabarty taught songs to Rabindranath fit to the childhood, e.g.,

Bagh palalo biral elo

Sikar karte hati

Moghal pathan mugdha halo

Pharcy pare tanti

Jadunath Bhattacharya

Jadunath taught music to poet Rabindranath Tagore in his young age. The writer of “Vande Maataram”, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay also took music lessons from Jadunath.

For Jadunath's melodious voice, Rajas of Panchacot awarded him the title of 'Ranganath' and Maharaja of Tripura; Birchandra Manikya awarded him the title of 'Tanraj'. Jadunath had written various songs in Bengali and Hindi. He was known for 'Khanderbani' dhrupad music.

Jadunath raised this music to a higher level and made it well known throughout India. He expired at the age of 43. Jadunath's 177 years old tanpura that Dhrupad legend Jadu Bhatta used to play while giving lessons to icons like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore has made its way to Indian Museum.


Sree Kanthya Singha ; Rabindranath cited an example  with reference to  Sree Kanthya Singha without referring the name of Jadu Bhatta in Jiban Smriti.
" Once there was a famous singer in our house for some period. He always talk nonsense to Srikanthya Babu in drunken state. Sreekantha Babu took it with a smiling face and did not protest a little. At last the singer was asked to leave our house. At this Sreekanthya Babu said that there was no need of driving him out of the house. He did nothing. It is only the wine who did the mischief."