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Name: Rabindranath Tagore
Birth Date: May 7, 1861
Death Date: August 7, 1941
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India
Place of Death: Calcutta, India
Nationality: Bengali
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, philosopher

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Biography of Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore or simply Rabindranath as he is known...


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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Rabindranath Tagore ( 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941 ) Indian philosopher, poet; winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.; also known as Rabi Thakur Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Gitanjali (1912) 1.2 Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life (1916) 1.3...


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Tagore, Rabindranath Summary
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TAGORE, RABINDRANATH (1861–1941), poet, novelist, playwright, composer, and spiritual leader, is best known as the winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of India's greatest modern poets. Yet he was also a complex figure...
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Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941) Summary
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Tagore, Rabindranath(1861 and Sasadhar Sinha, Social Thinking of Rabindranath Tagore (New York: Asia Publishing House, 1962). Of the many biographies of Tagore, mention may be made of Krishna Kripalani, Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography (New York: Oxford...
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Tagore, Rabindranath Summary
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(1861–1941), Indian poet. One of the foremost literary figures of modern India, Tagore was born 7 May 1861 into an affluent and cultured family in north Calcutta, in Bengal, and died there on 7 August 1941. He had an aversion to formal education...
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Tagore : Hindu Terms
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(Thākur) a prominent Bengali family whose several members contributed substantially to the Hindu reform movement. Chief among them were Devendranāth (1818–1905), a religious reformer who was active in Brāhmo Samāj affairs,...
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Rabindranath Tagore Information
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Rabindranath Tagore (help·info)α[›] (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর,β[›] IPA: [ɾobin̪d̪ɾonat̪ʰ ʈʰakuɾ] (help·info)) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),γ[›] also known by...


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Pacific Affairs
Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography.(Book Review)
12/22/2004: 637 words, approx. 2 pages
RABINDRANATH TAGORE: A Biography. By Uma Das Gupta. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2004. 120 pp. Rs. 225, cloth. ISBN 0-19-5669800-0. During the past decade, there has been an attempt by a small group of scholars in the area of Tagore studies...
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Philosophy East and West
The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore.(Book review)
01/01/2008: 2,756 words, approx. 9 pages
The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore. By Kalyan Sen Gupta. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 103. Hardcover $79.95. Discerning the philosophy of a poet is a difficult task. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a visionary whose music, poetry, dramas, essays, and novels...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mary M. Lago
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In the following essay, Lago discusses Tagore's short fiction as the first “modern” short stories in Bengali literature and also some major themes in Tagore's stories.
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Critical Essay by Sankar Basu
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In the following essay, Basu compares the short stories of Tagore to those of Anton Chekhov in terms of literary realism.
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Critical Essay by France Bhattacharya
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In the following essay, Bhattacharya discusses elements of the supernatural in ten of Tagore's short stories from the volume Story Collection (1959).
 


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