Indrani Sen

Rabindra Sangeet (Tagore Songs) denotes the corpus of approximately 2,232 songs written and composed by Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore. Blending Hindustani ragas, Bengali folk idioms, and selective Western and Celtic (especially Scottish) melodic ideas, the songs form a distinctive stream within the music of Bengal. They encompass devotional (puja), nature (prakriti), love (prem), patriotic (swadesh), and dramatic/dance-theatre repertories, with lyrics in refined yet direct Bengali. Rabindra Sangeet is central to cultural life in both India and Bangladesh, where it is taught, codified, and performed in concert, pedagogy, and ritual contexts.