ABSTRACT
Devendranāth, eldest son of Dwārkanāth Tagore, was born in Calcutta, May 1817, into a wealthy family. Educated at the Hindu College he showed a great interest in religious questions from an early age and founded the association known as the Tatwabodhini Sabha in 1839 for the purpose of gaining knowledge of God and disseminating information about the religious heritage of India. His first contact with the Brahmo Samāj nine years after the death of its founder made him realize that the aims of the Sabha could more easily be attained through amalgamation with the Samāj and this was duly effected in 1843. He instituted reforms in the Samāj including the removal of caste distinctions, idolatry and incarnational doctrines in accordance with the trust deed and rejected the doctrine of the infallibility of the Vedas. His main aim was to propagate knowledge of Brahma as taught in the Upanishads.
