![]() ![]() ![]() Due to Tagore's mother died in his early childhood, he was brought up by servants. It was a coincidence that Tagore and Motilal Nehru (father of Jawaharlal Nehru) were born on the same date. His father was Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, and his mother was Sarada Devi. Rabindranath Tagore was born on 6 th May 1861 in Jorasanko Mansion, Calcutta. He was a great man who left behind him a great institution of Vishva Bharti at Shantiniketan. ![]() Even once, Yeats said to a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine that Tagore is the product of the new 'renaissance in India.' His greatness lies in the field of music, and poetry and his songs are sung in all places wherever Bengali is spoken. It also influenced many great English poets like Ezra Pound and W.B.Yeats. He got the Novel Prize for his most popular collection of poems, 'Gitanjali'. Even this award of Novel Prize in literature was just the beginning of his recognition globally, for the place to which very few can attain in literary history. He was the first Indian to get the Novel Prize for literature in 1913 and gained a place for modern India on the world literary scene. His conscious mind and ability to penetrate or understand nature as well as life around him made him a great literary figure. However, Tagore did not have the academic struggle due to improper schooling. His contribution to emerging Indian English literature or to Bengali literature is significant and remarkable. Rabindranath Tagore was one of the great personalities in the history of Indian English literature as well as in Bengali literature. The national anthem of Sri Lanka was also inspired by Tagore's work. He had also written the national anthem for Bangladesh, 'Amar Shonar Bangla'. However, he has written so many poems, short stories, novels, drama etc., but his fame mainly lies on 'Gitanjali' and the national anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'. Although his first language was Bengali, he started his writings in Bengali but later translated many of them into English, which became the milestone for his literary career. His 1930 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford were published as The Religion of Man (1931).Rabindranath Tagore, a multitalented personality, can be explained as "here is god's plenty." He was a poet, a novelist, a painter, a social reformer, a composer, a philosopher etc., and was also known as Gurudev. He sought to interpret Indian philosophy to other cultures. To this end he added an international university to the Shantiniketan complex (1921) and divided the rest of his life mainly between its affairs and travelling abroad on lecture tours. Not naturally drawn to politics, he shunned active resistance to British rule, seeking instead ways of harmonizing eastern and western world views. He continued writing, with the lyric collection Balaka appearing in 1914 and the novel Home and the World in 1916. Tagore used his Nobel Prize money to improve Shantiniketan, adding an agricultural school (1914). Lecture tours in the USA (1912–13) and Britain (1913) followed Tagore was hailed as a sage and lionized in western intellectual circles. Yeats, under whose auspices it was published in England. On a visit to England (1912) Tagore showed his own English version of Gitanjali to William Rothenstein and W. The King of the Dark Chamber (1910) is one of his most successful dramas, though generally his plays were too symbolic and literary to exert a lasting influence. His best novel, Gora, appeared in 1908 and his most famous collection of lyrics, Gitanjali, followed in 1909. In 1901 he founded Shantiniketan at Bolpur near Calcutta: this famous educational establishment was a blend of traditional ashram and western schools. He also published his first poetic collections – Manasi (1890), Chitra (1895), and Sonar Tari (1895), in which he pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali instead of the archaic literary idiom then approved for verse, and wrote his first plays. By the early 1890s he was the chief contributor to leading Bengali journals. In 1877 he went to England to study law but soon returned, married (1883), and undertook the management of his family's estates. Privately educated, he read Bengali and English poets and wrote poetry from an early age. Tagore was born into a distinguished Bengali family in Calcutta his father was the Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, the Hindu reformer and mystic. In 1915 he was knighted but repudiated the honour in protest against the Amritsar Massacre (1919). Indian writer, who was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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