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Tagore, Rabindranath

(1861-1941) Indian writer. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1915, he was knighted by the British King George V. Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919, following the Amritsar massacre of nearly 400 Indian demonstrators.

Bauls of Bengal

Who can't trace the influence of Baul songs in Tagore's Rabindra Sangeet?

Rabindranath Tagore - Biography

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.

The Mysticism of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, the first Hindu Nobel Laureate - brought out the essence of Eastern spirituality in his poetry like no other poet.

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