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If one were to sum up in a single word all the new ingredients that were added to India by her contact with a Western power, it would be ‘progress’. This is not to imply any value-judgement on the merits or otherwise of British imperial rule: it is merely that prior to the British presence, progress as an idea or an ideal did not really exist in India. By the 1830s, however, not only were the inhabitants of Bengal faced by a city, Calcutta, that had progressed from a tiny village on the east bank of the Hooghly to a ‘city of palaces’, a great commercial centre, capital of all the territories administered by the East India Company; they also found themselves increasingly swept into controversies about progress – educational progress, religious progress, legal and political progress, literary and linguistic progress. The Tagore family was at the centre of this sea-change. Tagore’s grandfather, Dwarkanath Tagore, had built up an immense family fortu
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