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...

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...

(born May 7, 1861, Calcutta, India—died Aug. 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms...

(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...

(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,...

(born May 7, 1861, Calcutta, India—died Aug. 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, writer, composer, and painter. The son of Debendranath Tagore, he published several books of poetry, including Manasi, in his 20s. His later religious poetry was...

Rabindranath Tagore (help·info)α[›] (Bengali: রবà§à¦¨à§à¦¦à§à¦°à¦¨à¦¾à¦¥ ঠাà¦à§à¦°,β[›] IPA: [ɾobin̪d̪ɾonat̪ʰ ÊÊ°akuɾ] (help·info)) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),γ[›] also known by...