Who are the Tagores buried in the cemetery of IIEST Shibpur?
So if you didn't know, there are two people from the Tagore family(yes, the one and only Tagore family you are thinking about) who are buried in the cemetery present in the IIEST campus. I thought I will share with you whatever knowledge I have gathered about them, as I think it is pretty cool.
There was this guy named Joyram Tagore who was a super rich and zamindar type guy, he worked a government job in the East India Company.
His children were Darpanarayan Tagore and Nilmoni Tagore, who had a property dispute(inevitable)
Darpanaarayan tagore stayed back in paturiaghata which was the location of their ancestral house, whereas Nilmoni tagore went to Jorasanko and made his new estate there. this is where the Tagore family split, and the Jorasanko Tagore family is the branch from which Rabindranath Tagore came(Joyram was his great great great grandfather).
I said this because the Tagore graves in the campus cemetery are from the Paturiaghata family not the Jorasanko family, so they are very distant relatives of Rabindranath Tagore.
I will now sidetrack a bit to talk about Reverend Krishna Mohan Bannerjee, who was born into a Brahmin family but was largely influenced by Christian principles, because of which he was excommunicated by his family(and also because he was part of a rebellion group and had offended some precarious religious sentiments of his family, among many others). He converted to Christianity and joined a missionary society after which he became the first Bengali priest of the Christ Church in Kolkata.
I am mentioning him because he was later made a teacher at the Bishop's College, which is now Madhusadan Bhavan in IIEST Shibpur. Oh by the way, his grave is also in the college cemetery and his name is especially highlighted; you all can go see it
So back to the Tagores, Gyanendra Mohan Tagore of the Paturiaghata Tagore family married Krishna Mohan Bannerjees daughter Kamalmoni in, I think, the 1850s and converted to Christianity, and his dad being an orthodox Brahmin disowned Gyanendra. So he stayed in the Reverend's residence in campus and had two kids with Kamalmoni Barendranath Tagore and Nityendrabala Tagore, but they died in infancy. Its these two infants who are buried in the campus cemetery and are part of the Tagore family.
After his children died, Gyanendra Tagore moved to London to teach Hindu Law in Univerity College, London.
source: compiled from the Wikipedia article on Reverend Krishna Mohan Bannerjee and from this Times of India article, among others.