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{{Infobox person
| name = Darpanarayan Tagore
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1731
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1793|1731}}
| death_place = [[Rajshahi]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
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| predecessor =
| successor = [[Gopi Mohan Tagore]]
| children = [[Gopi Mohan Tagore]] (son)
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| relatives = [[Hara Kumar Tagore]] (grandchild)
| family = [[Tagore family]]
}}
'''Darpanarayan Tagore''' (1731–1793) was a member of the [[Tagore family]], who branched to [[Pathuriaghata]]. He worked as [[dewan]] to the [[French Indies Company|French East India Company]] at [[Chandannagar]] before moving to [[Calcutta]].<ref name="Banerjee1989">{{cite book |author=Sumanta Banerjee |title=The parlour and the streets: elite and popular culture in nineteenth century Calcutta |url=https://archive.org/details/parlourstreetsel0000bane |url-access=registration |accessdate=3 April 2017 |year=1989 |publisher=Seagull Books |isbn=978-81-7046-063-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parlourstreetsel0000bane/page/28 28], 49, 148}}</ref> He later became a merchant to Edward Wheeler, who succeeded Colonel Monson as a member of the [[Supreme Council of Bengal]] headed by [[Warren Hastings]].<ref name="Islam1979">{{cite book |author=Sirajul Islam |title=The Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of Its Operation, 1790–1819 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVEaAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=3 April 2017 |year=1979 |publisher=Bangla Academy |page=183}}</ref><ref name="Ghosh1985">{{cite book |author=Suniti Kumar Ghosh |title=The Indian Big Bourgeoisie: Its Genesis, Growth, and Character |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2vaAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=3 April 2017 |year=1985 |publisher=S.K. Ghosh |page=130}}</ref> He later purchased a large [[zamindari]] estate in his name at [[Rajshahi]] and
established himself as one of the leading zamindars in [[Bengal]]. He was succeeded by his son [[Gopi Mohan Tagore]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=S. N.|editor1-last=Leach |editor1-first=Edmund Ronald |editor2-last=Mukherjee |editor2-first=S. N. |chapter=Class, Caste and Politics in Calcutta, 1815–38 |title=Elites in South Asia |year=1970 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2u88AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA45 |accessdate=3 April 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |sbn=521-07710-9 |page=45}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Bengal: Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAlDAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=3 April 2017 |year=1996 |publisher=The Society |page=33}}</ref>

==Legacy==
Today, there is a street named after him called [[Darpanarayan Tagore Street]]. It spans approximately 0.25 kilometers and is situated in the historic [[Pathuriaghata]] neighborhood in [[North Kolkata]], between Maharashi Debendra Road and Jadulal Mullick Road—an area closely associated with the [[Tagore family]].<ref>{{cite google maps |url=https://in.geoview.info/darpanarayan_tagore_st,101765742w |title=Darpanarayan Tagore St |access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref>

==Family tree==
{{main|Tagore_family#Family_tree}}

==See also==
*[[Nilmoni Tagore]] – Darpanarayan's brother

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1731 births]]
[[Category:1793 deaths]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Bengali zamindars]]
[[Category:Tagore family]]
[[Category:People from Hooghly district]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]
[[Category:18th-century Bengali people]]
[[Category:18th-century merchants]]

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Maryparker at 02:22, 27 December 2025