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- He was active in the Brahmo Samaj,
which aimed to reform the Hindu religion and way of life.
- He was one of the founders in 1848 of
the Brahmo religion, which today is
synonymous with Brahmoism.
- His movement, the Brahmo Samaj, was formed in 1843 by
merging his Tattwabodhini Sabha with the
Brahmo Sabha, ten years after the death of Raja Ram
Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Sabha.
- His considerable material property included
estates spread over several districts of Bengal; most
famously, the Santiniketan estate near
Bolpur in the Birbhum district, a later acquisition, where
his eldest son Dwijendranath Tagore set up
his school.
- He was a master of the Upanishads and
played no small role in the education and cultivation of the
faculties of his sons.
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