Modern poetry rabindranath tagore biography

Rabindranath Tagore
born May 7, 1861 , Calcutta, India
died Aug. 7, 1941 , Calcutta

Rabindranath Tagore is regarded as one of the greatest writers in modern Indian literature.

Modern poetry rabindranath tagore biography

Bengali poet, novelist and educator, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators protesting colonial laws.

Tagore was born in Calcutta in a wealthy and prominent Brahmin family.

His father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a religious reformer and scholar; his mother Sarada Devi, died when he was very young. Tagore’s grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself, and financed public projects, such as Calcutta Medical College.

The Tagores were pioneers of the Bengal Renaissance and tried to combine traditional Indian culture with and Western ideas.

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