# Gitabitan

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gitabitan
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gitabitan.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitabitan
> Source revision: 1335090874
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{short description|Collection of songs by Rabindranath Tagore}}
{{italic title}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2026}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2026}}
'''''Gitabitan''''' ({{lit|Garden of songs}}) is a book forming a collection of all 2,232 songs ([Rabindra Sangeet](/source/Rabindra_Sangeet)) written by [Bengali](/source/Bengalis) polymath [Rabindranath Tagore](/source/Rabindranath_Tagore).<ref name="DasguptaGuha2013">{{cite book|author1=Sanjukta Dasgupta|author2=Chinmoy Guha|title=Tagore-At Home in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zfX4llLjyUC|date=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-1084-2|page=254}}</ref><ref name="som2010">{{cite book |last=Som |first=Reba|author-link=Reba Som|publication-date=26 May 2010|year=2010|title=Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and His Song|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-08248-3<!--0670082481-->|ol=23720201M |pages=89–91}}</ref>

==Editions==
The first edition of three volumes was published in 1931 and 1932, and contained the songs in chronological order. To make the collection more user-friendly, Tagore revised the book and arranged the songs by theme. The revised edition of the first two volumes was published in 1941, the year when Tagore died. Volume three, which included all of Tagore's dance-dramas, was published in 1950. In 1960 [Visva Bharati](/source/Visva_Bharati) published the ''Gitabitan'' as a single volume.<ref name="som2010" />

==Themes==
The six major parts of this book are ''Puja'' (worship), ''Prem'' (love), ''Prakriti'' (seasons), ''Swadesh'' (patriotism), ''Aanushthanik'' (occasion-specific), ''Bichitro'' (miscellaneous) and ''[Nrityonatya](/source/Rabindra_Nritya_Natya)'' (dance dramas and lyrical plays).<ref name="som2010" />

==Other collections==
The ''Swarabitan'', published in 64 volumes, includes the texts of 1,721 songs and their musical notation.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bhattacharya|first1=Sabyasachi|title=Rabindranath Tagore: an interpretation|date=2011|publisher=Viking, Penguin Books India|location=New Delhi|page=208|isbn=978-0670084555|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYpkWGHGkwYC}}</ref> The volumes were first published between 1936 and 1955.{{citation needed|date=January 2026}}

Earlier collections, all arranged chronologically, include ''Rabi Chhaya'' (1885), ''Ganer Bahi o Valmiki Pratibha'' (1893), ''Gan'' (1908), and ''Dharmashongit'' (1909).<ref name="som2010" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swarabitan.rabindraswarabitanfree Swarabitan & Gitabitan Android App]
* [http://www.iopb.res.in/~somen/Gb_misc/index.shtml Gitabitan] (includes pdf version)
* [http://www.gitabitanarchive.net Gitabitan Archive]
* [http://gitabitan.com Gitabitan.com]
* [http://www.gitabitan.net Gitabitan of Rabindranath Tagore - An Encyclopedic Site]

{{Rabindranath Tagore}}

Category:Rabindra Sangeet
Category:Works by Rabindranath Tagore
Category:Indian songs
Category:20th-century Indian books
Category:Songs in Bengali

{{anthology-book-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gitabitan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitabitan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitabitan?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.