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Tagore

In Our Time

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Tagore Car & Sons, Calcutta

The Tagore family was established in Bengal, around the time that the East India Company itself was established. The great grandfather of a urban and art Tagore had really made his fortune working for the company as a revenue collector. He is reputed to have formed the first company, the first sort of British Anglo-Indian Company,. Tagore Car & Sons in Calcutta. So he was an assimilated Indian who benefited from the commercial and economic opportunities thrown up by theCompany.

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