# Rajendrahal Mitra — My Reminiscences character guide

> Rajendrahal Mitra in My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mitra, Dr. Rajendrahal Mitra, Dr. Rajendrahal, Rajendrahal

**First appearance:** 0036-part-vii-xxxv-rajendrahal-mitra

## Snapshot

A formidable scholar who talks philology to a stripling without condescension, yet terrifies his opponents on the Municipal Corporation and University Senate.

## Who they are

He is the brilliant polymath the narrator visits at the Court of Wards, where the older man sets aside his work to deliver discourses on language, philology, and whatever subject he has lately studied. Hard of hearing and therefore never questioned, he talks on, and the young visitor listens enraptured, even extracting a contribution for the Bharati. He matters because he embodies intellectual generosity at its most inspiring, and because his example shows the narrator what a life of the mind can look like.

## In the story

### [Home Studies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-iv-xvii-home-studies)

Edited an illustrated monthly miscellany that the narrator read.

### [Rajendrahal Mitra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-vii-xxxv-rajendrahal-mitra)

Enthusiastic president of the short-lived Literary Academy; a brilliant scholar and engaging conversationalist who mentored the narrator.

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