Museum and gallery, Naogaon
Patisar Rabindra Kachari Bariপতিসর রবীন্দ্র কাছারিবাড়ি
- Time needed
- One to two hours.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
- Cost
- A small entry ticket.
The Tagore family's estate office on the Nagar river at Atrai, where Rabindranath came from 1890 to run the Kaligram estate and wrote poems, stories and letters: now a protected building and small museum.
At a glance
- Tagore here
- From 1890
- Agricultural bank
- 1905
About
Dwarkanath Tagore bought the estate in 1830, and Rabindranath arrived to manage it sixty years later. He did more than collect rents: the family set up a school, a charitable dispensary and, in 1905, an agricultural bank for the tenants, and their traces are still in the village.
The two-storey kachari has been restored, with his belongings, photographs and letters in the rooms, a bust of the poet by the pond and a quiet garden. It fills with visitors on 25 Boishakh, his birth anniversary, when songs and a fair take over the grounds.
Getting there: From Naogaon town to Atrai by bus or train, then a CNG to Patisar, about 12 km.
Things to do
- See the rooms upstairs, then sit at the pond ghat by the bust.
Good to know
- Come on 25 Boishakh for the celebration, or on a quiet weekday for the house itself.
