Tagore Town is a neighborhood in
Allahabad,
India
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. It was built in 1909.
It was predominantly populated by
Bengali's. The place is named in the memory of
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
.It is also the home of the former Cabinet Minister of India and current MP Pandit
Murli Manohar Joshi of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
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(BJP).
References
Neighbourhoods in Allahabad
Memorials to Rabindranath Tagore
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