The name Bharata Natyam is of relatively recent origin when performers like Rukmini Devi revived the dance in the 20th century.This dance derives its roots from Tamil Nadu and has developed into all over in India.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.