Naogaon, Rajshahi
The estate house on the Nagar river where Rabindranath Tagore stayed while running his family’s Kaligram estate, now a memorial museum.
Each year around Tagore’s birthday (25 Boishakh), Patisar hosts celebrations with songs, recitations, discussions and a village fair, drawing visitors from across the region.
Patisar was the headquarters of the Kaligram estate of the Tagore family. Rabindranath Tagore first came here in the early 1890s to manage the family’s lands and returned many times over the following decades, arriving by boat along the rivers and staying in the kachharibari, the estate office and residence.
Patisar shaped his ideas about rural life. He set up schools and a dispensary for his tenants and founded the Patisar Krishi Bank to give farmers cheap credit, later putting money from his Nobel Prize into it. Several of his poems and letters were written here.
The kachharibari is now a memorial museum looked after by the Department of Archaeology, with Tagore’s belongings, photographs and the house itself, beside the Nagar river.
Leave Naogaon in the morning by bus, or take a train to Atrai station.
Auto-rickshaw or CNG through the villages to the kachharibari.
See the rooms, Tagore’s belongings and the photographs.
Sit by the river where his boat used to moor, then head back via Atrai.
October to March; or around 25 Boishakh (early May) for the Tagore birthday celebrations
Patisar is in Atrai upazila, south-east of Naogaon town. Go to Atrai by bus or by train on the Santahar line, then take an auto-rickshaw or CNG on to Patisar; check the road locally. From Naogaon allow around 1.5–2 hours.
