Soumendranath Tagore

Soumendranath Tagore (1910–1974), son of Sudhindranath Tagore and grandson of Dwijendranath Tagore, was a great orator. He was a name to reckon with in the cultural arena in the 1960s and 1970s.^[1] He was associated with the communist movement from his younger days.^[2] Soumendranath Tagore married Srimati Hutheesingh from an aristocratic Jain Gujarati family of Ahmedabad. She was a student in Shantiniketan and a well known dancer and choreographer who took training in dance in India and abroad. Srimati Tagore's brother Raj N Hutheesingh married Krishna Nehru, younger daughter of Motilal Nehru and sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

References

↑ Dwijendranath Tagore#Descendants
↑ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, 1976/1998, (Bengali), p. 607, ISBN 81-85626-65-0

Tagore family

1st generation	Dwarkanath Tagore Hara Kumar Tagore Prasanna Coomar Tagore Ramanath Tagore

2nd generation	Debendranath Tagore Gnanendramohan Tagore Jatindramohan Tagore

3rd generation	Dwijendranath Tagore Satyendranath Tagore Hemendranath Tagore Jyotirindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Swarnakumari Devi Prodyot Coomar Tagore Ganendranath Tagore Jnanadanandini Devi Kadambari Devi

4th generation	Pramatha Chaudhuri Indira Devi Chaudhurani Surendranath Tagore Lakshminath Bezbaroa Purnima Devi Sarala Devi Chaudhurani Gaganendranath Tagore Abanindranath Tagore

5th generation	Dinendranath Tagore Soumendranath Tagore Amiya Tagore Asit Kumar Haldar

6th generation	Jitendra Prasada Devika Rani Himanshu Rai

7th generation	Sharmila Tagore Jitin Prasada

8th generation	Saif Ali Khan Soha Ali Khan

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