
Professor Uma Das Gupta is a historian and a renowned Tagore biographer. She is the author of many books and articles on Tagore. Some of the most recent are: Rabindranath Tagore: My Life in My Words. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2010; Rabindranath Tagore: An Illustrated Life. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Uma Das Gupta, Rabindranath Tagore: My Life in My Words, New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2010, 9.
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B.B.Kling, Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India, 1976, Calcutta, K.P.Bagchi, p.10.
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Uma Das Gupta, ‘Tagore family’ (per.1690-1951), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn. Oxford University Press, Oct 2008 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/94945″).
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K.Kripalani, Dwarkanath Tagore: A Forgotten Pioneer, 1981, New Delhi, National Book Trust, 38-39.
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Uma Das Gupta, Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography, 2004, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2.
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The Times, London, 3 August 1846.
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Uma Das Gupta, ‘Tagore family’ (per.1690-1951), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn. Oxford University Press, Oct 2008 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/94945).
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Rabindranath Tagore, Atmaparichaya, 1400(1993), Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, 78-79. Translation mine. [Hereafter Atmaparichaya].
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Uma Das Gupta, Rabindranath Tagore: An Illustrated Life, 2013, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 16. [Hereafter Illustrated Life]
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Rabindranath Tagore, My Boyhood Days, 2005 edn., Calcutta, Rupa, 42-43. [Hereafte, Boyhood Days].
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Rabindranath Tagore, My Reminiscences, 2008 edn., Calcutta, Rupa, 96. [Hereafter Reminiscences].
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Ibid., 245-246.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Pashchatya Bhraman( Westward Voyage), 1343(1936), Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, i-v. Translation mine.
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Illustrated Life, 30-31.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal: Selected Letters, 1991 edn., London, Papermac, 67.
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Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The History and Ideals of Sriniketan’, November 1941, Calcutta, The Modern Review, 433.
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Atmaparichaya, op.cit., 37. Translation mine.
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Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man, 1958, London, Unwin Books, 11.
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Reminiscences, 48.
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Boyhood Days, 34.
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Illustrated Life, 22-23.
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‘Tagore and Einstein on Music’, Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson eds., Purabi, A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, 1991, London, 175.
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Reminiscences, 183-184.
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Rabindranath Tagore to Myron Phelps, 9 December 1911, File: Phelps, Myron, Rabindra Bhavana Archives, Santiniketan.
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W.W.Pearson, Santiniketan: The Bolpur School of Rabindranath Tagore, 1916, London, Macmillan, 18.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Gora, 1943, London, Macmillan, 406.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Poems, poem no. 51, 2003, Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, 74-75.
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Rabindranath Tagore to Kshitimohan Sen, 30 November 1920, File: Sen, Kshitimohan. Rabindra Bhavana Archives, Santiniketan. Translation mine.
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Rabindranath Tagore, The Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the Santiniketan Asram, 1918, Bolpur, 4-5.
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Uma Das Gupta, Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography, 2004, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 38.
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Rabindranath Tagore to Mira Ganguli (nee Tagore), Chitthi Patra (Letters), IV, 1350(1943), Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, 71. Translation mine.
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Sisir Kumar Das (Ed.), English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, III, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi 1996, pp.631-632.
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Rabindranath Tagore to Sudhindranath Datta, 16 Kartik 1335 (2 November 1929), 1379(1972), Calcutta, Desh, Sahitya Sankhya, 139. Translation mine.
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Rabindranath Tagore to Rani Mahalanobis, 7 November 1928, in Pritwis Neogy ed., Rabindranath Tagore On Art and Aesthetics, 1961, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 89.
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Uma Das Gupta ed., A Difficult Friendship: Letters of Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore 1913-1940, 2003, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 163.
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Sabyasachi Bhattacharya ed., The Mahatma and the Poet, 1997, Delhi, NBT, 178.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Palli Prakriti, 1962, Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, 31-34. Translation mine.
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Amiya Chakravarty ed., A Tagore Reader, 1966, Boston, Beacon Press, 367.