Death
Dwarkanath Tagore died "at the peak of his fortune" on the evening of Saturday 1 August 1846 at the St. George's Hotel in London during a tremendous thunderstorm the likes of which had not been seen for many years past. He was buried at Kensal Green on 5 August 1846 in a private ceremony without any religious observances. His heart which had been previously extracted was sent to Calcutta to conduct the Brahmo rites amidst great controversy. In his obituary, The London Mail of 7 August wrote "Descended from the highest Brahmin caste of India his family can prove a long and undoubted pedigree. But it is not on account of this nobility that we now review his life but on far better grounds…However gifted, his claims rest on a higher pedestal–he was the benefactor of his country…hey testified to his merits in the encouragement of every public and private undertaking likely to benefit India."
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