Founder of Nababidhan Brahmo Samaj, Keshabchandra Sen dies. Death mourned in the Brahmo press.
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Maghotsav
24th January, 1884
Maghotsav is celebrated on 11th Magh (Bengali month). Rabindranath composes nine songs for the occasion which are sung in the morning service.
Subhra asane birajo
Sansarete charidhar
Ki dibo tomay
Ke re oi dakichhe
Sakalere kachhe daki
Tomarei praner asha
Hatay loye deepa aganan
Animesh ankhi
Sakatore oi kandichhe
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Mrinalini goes to school
18th February, 1884
Debendranath takes a keen interest in and provides generously for Rabindranath's wife Mrinalini's schooling. He writes to Rabindranath, "Send Chhoto bou to Loreto House for English Education. It's certainly a fine arrangement that she will be taught separately and not with the other girls of the class……". Unprecedentedly, a maid is appointed exclusively for Mrinalini.
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Mrinalini receives monthly allowance
February, 1884
Mrinalini - Rabindranath's wife also receives a monthly allowance of Twenty Five rupees.
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Mrinalini in Gyanadanandini Devi's custody
February, 1884
Young Mrinalini - Rabindranath's spouse is in Gyanadanandini Devi's custody. This arrangement lasts till Rabindranath sets up his own house.
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Chhabi O Gaan
23rd February, 1884
Rabindranath publishes his sixth book of verse, Chhabi O Gaan, contaning thirty poems.
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Annual festival of Savitri Library
23rd February, 1884
Rabindranath narrates the satirical essay Akalkushmanda on the occasion of the annual festival of Savitri Library. There he also sings Vandemataram.
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Vivaha Utsav
March, 1884
In the last week of March 1884, Rabindranath's niece Hiranmoyee (elder sister Swarnakumari's daughter) marries Phanibhusan Mukherjee. To celebrate the occasion Rabindranath writes and stages a musical play Vivaha Utsav. Of the 45 songs in the play he contributes as many as 28.
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Kadambari Devi dies
19th April, 1884
Jyotirindranath's wife Kadambari devi, now 25, commits suicide. Rabindranath is heart-broken at this terrible catastrophe. Her death will soon draw from him certain elegiac poems to be included in the anthology Kadi o Komal.
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Jyotirindranath's shipping business
May, 1884
Jyotirindranath starts a short-lived shipping business. The hull of an old ship is refitted by shipbuilders in Calcutta (now Kolkata) complete with an engine and a superstructure. Now the ferry Sarojini is launched on the Khulna-Barishal route for conveying passengers and goods. Members of the family, Rabindranath included, take a pleasure ride on Sarojini. The business, however, incurs huge losses and swiftly collapses after Sarojini collides with the Howrah Bridge and sinks. Rabindranath writes about it in Jibansmriti.
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Sarojini Prayan
1884
Rabindranath writes about Jyotirindranath's short-lived shipping business in Jibansmriti, "In an effort to introduce indigenous shipping he suddenly bought the bare hull of a ship and later the hull filled, not only with engine and cabins – but with debt and disaster, too". A satirical piece Sarojini Prayan is published in three instalments in the Shraban, Bhadra-Ashwin and Agrahayan issues of Bharati.
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Death of Hemendranath
5th June, 1884
Rabindranath's elder brother, Hemendranath Tagore, Maharshi Debendranath's third son, dies at the age of forty.
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Bharati
June, 1884
It is proposed to wind up the Bharati magazine. Later Dwijendranath resigns as editor, Swarnakumari Devi becomes editor and runs the magazine, laying greater stress on covering scientific subjects.
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Bhanusingha Thakurer Padavali published
1st July, 1884
Rabindranath publishes a remarkable volume of verse written in an archaic but attractive style – Bhanusingha Thakurer Padavali and dedicates it to Kadambari Devi's memory. One thousand copies of the first edition are printed.
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Navajivan & Prachar
July, 1884
Rabindranath contributes copies of Bhanusingha Thakurer Padavali to both Navajivan edited by Akshayachandra Sarkar and Prachar edited by Rakhalchandra Banerjee.
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Hatey-Kalamey
26th August, 1884
Rabindranath narrates his essay – Hatey-Kalamey before an audience at Savitri Library.
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Rabindranath as Secretary of Adi Brahmo Samaj
16th September, 1884
Debendranath makes Rabindranath secretary of the Adi Brahmo Samaj – a post he'll continue to hold for many years to come.
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Cultural combat
1884
Around this time a cultural combat over theological and allied issues erupts between Tattwabodhini Patrika of the Adi Brahmo Samaj and Bankimchandra. Rabindranath emerges as a notable combatant on the Brahmo side.
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Sanjivani and Bangabashi
1884
Sanjivani is a Brahmo weekly and Bangabashi a neo-Hindu weekly. Rabindranath contributes a few articles and satirical pieces to the former.
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