Sri Aurobindo's maternal grandfather. Has formed at India secret society. Young Tagor become its member. Society was occupied in revolution propaganda and fought for India's independence. Rajnarayan was born at village Borale near Calcutta at 1826. Educated at best English-speaking school and at Calcutta College. He was erudite man, was interested in Vedanta philosophy. He worked three years in Calcutta and then moved at Midnapoor, where he spent most of his life. There he worked as a director of school. He was a leader of local branch of Brahmo Samaj. At March 1866 — after a break of society — he returned at Calcutta and became main representative and then president of Adi, or true Brahmo Samaj. During his activity at society, he stood up for Hinduism and Brahminism, traditional Bengal lifestyle. Anniversary National Assemblage (Jatya Mela), following Rajnarayan's ideas, was so popular that it became forerunner of movement of 1870s, which culminated at India National Congress. At 1879 Rajnarayan retired at Deoghar (Bihar State), where he spent last years of his life at study of workings of Indian, Persian and European mystics. Else while alive he was named risi and "Grandfather of Indian Nationalism".