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| birth_place        = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India|Bengal Presidency]]<ref>
| birth_place        = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[Company rule in India|British India]]<ref>
{{cite book |last1=Chaudhuri |first1= Narayan|title= Maharshi Debendranath Tagore |edition= 2nd|series=Makers of Indian Literature  |year=  2010|orig-year=1973 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location= New Delhi|isbn= 978-81-260-3010-1|page= 11}}</ref> (now [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]])
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| death_date        = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1905|01|19|1817|05|15}}
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'''Debendranath Tagore''' (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the [[Brahmo Samaj]] (“Society of Brahma,” also translated as ''Society of God''). He was the founder in 1848 of the [[Brahmo]] religion, which today is synonymous with [[Brahmoism]]. Born in [[Shilaidaha]], his father was the industrialist [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]; he himself had 14 children, many of whom, including Nobel-prize winning poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]], made significant artistic or literary contributions to society.
'''Debendranath Tagore''' (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the [[Brahmo Samaj]] (“Society of Brahma,” also translated as ''Society of God''). He was the founder in 1848 of the [[Brahmo]] religion, which today is synonymous with [[Brahmoism]]. Born in [[Shilaidaha]], his father was the industrialist [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]; he himself had 14 children, many of whom, including Nobel-prize winning poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]], made significant artistic or literary contributions to society.
== Family history ==
{{See also|Tagore family}}
The original surname of the [[Tagore family|Tagores]] was Kushari. They were [[Bengali Brahmins|Rarhi Brahmins]] and originally belonged to a village named Kush in the district named [[Bardhaman district|Burdwan]] in [[West Bengal]]. The biographer of Rabindranath Tagore, [[Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya]] wrote in the first volume of his book ''Rabindrajibani O Rabindra Sahitya Prabeshika'' that,{{Cquote|quote=''The Kusharis were the descendants of Deen Kushari, the son of [[Bhatta Narayana]]; Deen was granted a village named Kush (in [[Bardhaman district|Burdwan]] zilla) by [[Maharaja]] Kshitisura, he became its chief and came to be known as Kushari.''<ref name = "tagore3">Mukhopadhyaya, Prabhatkumar, ''Rabindrajibani o Rabindra Sahitya Prabeshak'', 1985, Visva Bharati, p 3</ref><ref>''On the edges of time (New ed.)'' (December 1978), Tagore, Rathindranath, Greenwood Press. p. 2, {{ISBN|978-0313207600}}</ref><ref>''Timeless Genius'', Mukherjee, Mani Shankar, ''Pravasi Bharatiya''(May 2010), p.  89, 90</ref><ref>''Rabindranath Tagore : Poet And Dramatist''(1948), Thompson, Edward, Oxford University Press. p. 13</ref>}}


==Thakur Bari (House of Tagores)==
==Thakur Bari (House of Tagores)==
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