"The Tagoreans" is an organisation that believes in Rabindranath Tagore's philosophy of life and draws its inspiration from his creativity in various fields such as literature, music and art. Established by late Tapan Gupta in 1965 with the aim of conveying to the west the passion and joy of Rabindranath Tagore's creativity, philosophy, humanitarianism and genius. Its activities include staging of plays, musical concerts and dance dramas, organising poetry recitals, lectures, seminars, exhibition of arts and craft, promoting Bengali culture to a wider public in the UK and Europe and running classes to teach music and dance.

During more than last 40 years The Tagoreans have been involved in many notable activities. It had organised Voices of Bengal Festivals I and II in 1984 and 1988 bringing together for the first time on the stage in Britain artists from West Bengal and Bangladesh. In 1986, the group had organised the 125th anniversary of Tagore's birth with over 150 artists and scholars from around the world presenting dance dramas, musical events, plays, poetry recitals, seminars, workshops and art exhibitions. In 1989, the group had organised Nehru's birth centenary celebrations with a variety of events - lectures, international commemorative conferences and musical performances at the Commonwealth Institute, the Royal Festival Hall and Harrow School. In 1997, the Tagoreans had organised two very successful shows of an award winning play by the renowned actor and playwright Soumitra Chatterjee called Tiktiki, and in 1999, the group had organised a millennium concert in Calcutta, with an aim to thank those in West Bengal who had helped this organisation throughout the past 40 years - entitled Ganer Bhitor Diye. This was followed by another programme in December 2002 at Kolkata titled Ogo Shono Ke Bajai - based on Tagore's compositions on Banshi or flute.

In 2003, the Tagoreans organised a series of programmes by the noted Rabindrasangeet artiste Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta of Kolkata, while in the following year the Tagoreans organised a celebration of Tagore’s birth anniversary with Tagore’s portrayal of women’s love by Anchalik from Birmingham, Tagore songs based on Western compositions, and a composition based on Tagore's poem "Africa" by "Kalamandir" from New Jersey, USA - in May. In 2006, Tagoreans performed the invocation dance at the British Museum on the occassion of Mahalaya - welcoming the goddess Durga to earth. On 14th October 2007, Tagoreans celebrated 60 years of India;s independence at the Assembly Hall, University of London, featuring Rajat Bagchi, Minister (Co-ordination), Indian High Commission, Padmabhusan Prof Lord Bikhu Parekh, Dr. Vincent Cable MP, Dr. Martin Kampchen, Dr William Radice etc, as speakers. See Report.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 but is remembered and loved by Indians for his several thousand songs, paintings and novels, short stories, plays and dance drasmas. Together this literary output comprises 60 volumes of work unrivalled in its range and inspiration.

"The Tagoreans" are a registered charity in UK and have no religious or political boundaries and encourages participation from all sections of the community.