biography
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Tagore, Rabindranath
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pronunciation:
[tagaw(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1941)
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| biography:
| Poet and philosopher, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), E India. He is best known for his poetic works, notably Gitanjali (1912, Song Offering), and his short stories, such as Galpaguccha (1912, A Bunch of Stories), but he also wrote plays (such as Chitra, 1896) and novels (such as Binodini, 1902). In 1901 he founded near Bolpur the Santiniketan, a communal school to blend Eastern and Western philosophical and educational systems. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the first Asian to do so, and was knighted in 1915 - an honour which he resigned in 1919 as a protest against British policy in the Punjab. |
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