 He was the second eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore, the only Indian to get a Nobel Prize in Literature.The second son of Debendranath Tagore, the elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family of Calcutta (now Kolkata), he learnt Sanskrit and English at home.A student of Hindu School, he was part of the first batch of students to appear for the entrance examinations of the University of Calcutta in 1857.