A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(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, later turning to mysticism and settling in his retreat in Śāntiniketan; and his son Rabindranāth (1861–1941), poet and writer, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.
Greatly influenced by the 
, some Buddhist texts, and the Bāul path as well as European poets such as Shelley and Wordsworth, Rabindranāth expressed his main spiritual vision in his work Sādhanā. In 1921 he founded the Viśva Bhāratī World University in Śāntiniketan which attracted many prominent teachers and had among its pupils some who, in their later lives, played substantial roles in Indian cultural and public life. It is still a significant educational institution in present-day India.
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