Shahzadpur, Bangladesh - Ancestral home of Tagore - postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Front view of the ancestral house of Tagore [Shahzadpur, Bangladesh]
• Publisher: Babindra Bharati, Calcutta
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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/ ; Bengali: [robindronatʰ ʈʰakur]), Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Phonetic transcription: Robindronath Ţhakur, Latin transliteration: Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura^[2] (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),(Bengali : 25 Baishakh, 1268 - 22 Srabon, 1348 - ২৫শে বৈশাখ, ১২৬৮ - ২২শে শ্রাবণ, ১৩৪৮ বঙ্গাব্দ) sobriquetGurudev,^[a] was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, who was a poet, musician and artist.^[4][5] He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",^[6] he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[7] Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.^[8] He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".^[9]

A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old.^[10] At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics.^[11][12] By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist,^[13] he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.^{[14][15][16][17][18]}

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.^[19][20][21]

Shahzadpur or Shahjadpur (Bengali: শাহজাদপুর) is an Upazila of Sirajganj District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.[1]

Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid was a Fourteenth Century Muslim saint recognized for his preaching of Islam in northern India. He was martyred at Shahjadpur.

Makhdum Shah was the second son of Muaz bin Jabal, a king of Yemen. Together with some twenty companions, he travelled east by the land route through Bukhara and into India preaching Islam. Eventually they settled in Shahzadpur, at the time part of a Hindu kingdom. The king was displeased with the disruption caused by Makhdum Shah and his followers and ordered them expelled from his kingdom. Makhdum Shah refused to comply and he and nearly all of his followers were killed. Makhdum Shah is buried beside the old Shahi mosque at Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District

Shahzadpur is emotionally connected with the fond memory of the Nobel-laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, who used to stay here in connection with administration of his father's zamindary. He wrote a lot of verses while living here. His Kachharibari (revenue office) is still there like the other place, Shilaidaha in Kushtia district.

Another point of interest is Naiem Hasan's House