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Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, writer and humanitarian, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and he played a key role in the renaissance of modern India. Tagore is most widely known for his poetry, but he was also an accomplished author of novels, short stories, plays and articles. He took an active interest in a widespread range of social, cultural and artistic endeavours. He has been described as one of the first Twentieth Century’s global man.
“So I repeat we never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.”
Sadhana: The Realisation of Life, (1916)
Short Biography Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath began writing from an early age and impressed with his free-flowing style and spontaneous compositions. He mostly rejected formal schooling; he spent much time being taught at home. In 1878 he travelled to England and sought to study law at University College, London, but he left before finishing the degree.
After returning to India, in 1901, Tagore moved to Shantiniketan to found an ashram which became his focal point for writing and his view on schooling. He chose the name for the ashram – Shantiniketan meaning ‘Abode of Peace.’
“Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.”
– Tagore, Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life (1916)
Friendship with Gandhi
Tagore was firm friends with Gandhi and admired him very much. But, despite this friendship, he could be critical of his views. For example, he disagreed with Gandhi’s views on Swaraj protests and upbraided Gandhi when Gandhi claimed an earthquake was ‘divine retribution for the mistreatment of Dalits in India.’ Yet despite the frequent divergence of opinions, they could admire each other. When Gandhi went on a fast unto death, it was Tagor who was able to persuade Gandhi to give up his fast and look after his health.
Nobel Prize for Literature 1913
In 1913, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his work ‘ Gitanjali ‘ This made his writings internationally known and his fame spread throughout the world.
“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.” – Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore with Einstein
This gave Tagore the opportunity to travel extensively giving lectures and recitals in many different countries. He also became acquainted with many of the leading cultural contemporaries of the day; this included W.B.Yeats, George Bernard Shaw , Romain Rolland, Robert Frost and Albert Einstein .
Tagore had a great love for nature and many of his poems invoke the simple beauties of the natural world. For Tagore, his religion could be found in the wonders and mysteries of nature – as much as in temples and sacred books.
Tagore was a prolific composer of music. He composed over 2,000 songs which have been popularised and sung widely across Bengal. Like his literature, he broke away from classical constraints to offer a great emotive and spiritual appeal. Tagore is unique for being the official composer for the national anthem of two countries – India’s Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh’s Amar Shonar Bangla .
Tagore was an opponent of British imperialism, though he also felt Indians had a duty to improve their self-education; he said that British rule was partly due to the state India had fallen into. In particular, he was very denigrating about India’s obsession with caste.
‘the ultimate truth in man is not in his intellect or his possessions; it is in his illumination of mind, in his extension of sympathy across all barriers of caste and colour, in his recognition of the world, not merely as a storehouse of power, but as a habitation of man’s spirit, with its eternal music of beauty and its inner light of the divine presence.’ – Tagore, The Poet’s Religion’ in Creative Unity (1922) [ 1 ]
In 1919, Tagore returned his knighthood in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, in which many peaceful Indian protesters were killed.
Tagore was a polymath, and towards the end of his life he took up art and also pursued an interest in science. Tagore was also very much an internationalist, criticising nationalism, though also writing songs and articles in support of the general principle of the Indian independence movement.
“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. “
– Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore view on Religion
Tagore had mixed views on religion. He was brought up in a traditional Hindu family and taught to pray and meditate from an early age. He remembers the peace of mind he developed from chanting the Gayatri Mantra, but at the same time was detached from the more formalistic aspects of religion. He tended to see religion as not scriptures and places of worship but the life we lead. As he explained:
“My religion is my life – it is growing with my growth – it has never been grafted on me from outside.” ~ Tagore to Robert Bridges, 8 July 1914.
He was keen to avoid any fanaticism and saw the strength of his own Hindu religion as its ability to see more than one path to the goal. His life-long aspiration was to see a harmony of religions flourish in India – not from mere tolerance but an appreciation of the different merits other religions had.
‘The Idea of freedom to which India aspired was based upon realization of spiritual unity…India’s great achievement, which is still stored deep within her heart, is waiting to unite within itself Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist and Christian, not by force, not by the apathy of resignation, but in the harmony of active cooperation.’ ~ Tagore in Berlin, 1921.
However, he was also critical of the Hindu caste system.
Tagore’s poetry frequently hint at a mystical view of the world.
“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.” – Gitanjali “The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.” Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life (1916)
Tagore died on 7th August 1941, after a long and painful illness, aged 80. He died in his family home.
Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan . “ Rabindranath Tagore ”, Oxford, UK www.biographyonline.net , 1st Jun. 2009. Last updated 1 March 2019.
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Rabindranath Tagore born May 7, 1861 , Calcutta, India died Aug. 7, 1941 , Calcutta
Rabindranath Tagore is regarded as one of the greatest writers in modern Indian literature. Bengali poet, novelist and educator, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators protesting colonial laws.
Tagore was born in Calcutta in a wealthy and prominent Brahmin family. His father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a religious reformer and scholar; his mother Sarada Devi, died when he was very young. Tagore’s grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself, and financed public projects, such as Calcutta Medical College. The Tagores were pioneers of the Bengal Renaissance and tried to combine traditional Indian culture with and Western ideas.
The youngest child in the family, Tagore started to compose poems at the age of eight. He received his early education first from tutors and then at a variety of schools. Among them were Bengal Academy where he studied Bengali history and culture, and University College, London, where he studied law but left after a year without completing his studies.
His first book, a collection of poems, appeared when he was 17; it was published by Tagore’s friend who wanted to surprise him. In 1901 Tagore founded a school outside Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, which was dedicated to emerging Western and Indian philosophy and education. It become a university in 1921. He produced poems, novels, stories, a history of India, textbooks, and treatises on pedagogy.
Tagore’s reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication of Gitanjali: Song Offerings, in which Tagore tried to find inner calm and explored the themes of divine and human love. The poems were translated into English by Tagore himself. His cosmic visions owed much to the lyric tradition of Vaishnava Hinduism and its concepts about the relationship between man and God. Much of Tagore’s ideology comes from the teaching of the Upahishads and from his own beliefs that God can be found through personal purity and service to others. He stressed the need for new world order based on transnational values and ideas, the “unity consciousness.”
Between the years 1916 and 1934 he travelled widely, attempting to spread the ideal of uniting East and West. Only hours before he died on August 7, in 1941, Tagore dictated his last poem.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): A Biographical Sketch
The Renaissance man of modern India, Rabindranath Tagore put his country on the literary map of the world when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Though known primarily as a poet and writer, Tagore was also a painter, musical composer and radical thinker, an educationist and rural reformer. My paper is a brief biographical sketch which hopes to connect with Tagore's life and his work.
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Neeti Singh
My reflections on the relevance of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), circle around three mantras that underlie and harness a good deal of the work that Tagore did as poet-playwright, artist, ambassador and educationist. A close look at his life and actions along with his writings unfolds before us a legacy from which there is much to learn and benefit. The methods he adopted appeared quite ordinary and indigenous, their strength lay however in their guiding vision and corrective impact. The contributions come to us through his engagement with i) translation ii) Shantiniketan and iii) his innate sense of beauty. Tagore chose to translate (rather than write) his poems/plays into English, thereby subscribing translation as a means to producing literature in English. His school Shantiniketan combined the merits of both the Vernacular and English curriculum. It was the one means of recovering a nation divided by education into two major sections – the English and non English speaking Indians. The third gift as I see it lies in Tagore's cultivation of an inner 'sense of beauty'. A sense of beauty he affirmed, was the most effective way to refine, discipline and reform human character. Through his writings, his art, music, through Shantiniketan and through theatre Tagore shared with the world his unique vision; a sense of beauty furnished with enchantment and wisdom runs through all his endeavours and creative expression. The sense of regard I have for Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), is therefore compounded by a keen awareness of the fact that he rendered to India, Indian literature and culture, a precious amount of service. He was a exemplary role model both as writer and educationist. At a time when most Indians writing in English had eyes only for the wealth of poets abroad and had little to do with the literatures and traditions of their own soil, we find in Tagore's work a strong unbroken link with Classical, Bhakti and Baul traditions of writing. Tagore gives voice to the life around him, in an idiom that is his own and yet
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History and Theory, Theme issue 53, December 2015, Wesleyan University
Ranjan Ghosh
This article, through a close reading of Rabindranath Tagore's writings on history, tries to develop his theory of history and establish the character of his historical consciousness. Tagore's philosophy of history is distinguished from Western models of historical thinking and is resistant to aligning with nationalist and revivalistic narratives that speak only of one culture, one nation, and one community. The article works out a theoretical premise based on Tagore's engagement with time, historical distance, the everyday, history as life-view, historical fiction, historicality in literature, and the notion of the historical-now or presentism. Substantiated by the notion of a "poet-historian," Tagore's historical theory works at the limits of "global history," which is now often misappropriated through the principles of unifocality and bounded rationality. The article develops Tagore's sense of itihasa that frees history from the univocality of world history, creates its own "worlding," its historicality, enriching and disturbing our notions of global history.
Available online: http://academic.udayton.edu/monishchatterjee/tagore/sadhaka.html
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Dr. Abha Shukla Kaushik
Rabindranath Tagore – the most eminent icon of the nineteenth century Bengal Renaissance was the first Asian to get the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. He was a polymath in his own right – a poet, a fiction writer, a dramatist, a painter, an educator, a political thinker, a philosopher, an advocate of science – the list is endless, not only in Asia but also the world over. In today’s world of specialization, it is important to remember such multifarious talents. He was a prolific genius who wrote over a hundred books of verse, about fifty plays, about forty volumes of novels, short stories and essays besides dabbling in painting and music. He was an ‘intellectual colossus’ with clear views on a whole range of issues like literature, politics, culture, social change, religion, independence, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, education, philosophy, international relations and much else expressed in his works especially the essays.
Rabindranath Tagore Beyond His Language
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This volume presents Rabindranath Tagore, the winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature, as a global figure who rose above divides and spoke to people distant both in time and space. No Indian writer in a regional language has ever managed to reach out to so many people worldwide as did Tagore. The volume presents how he was able to cross the boundaries of language to connect to various literary cultures, how his activities are related to the meta-linguistic domains of the psychological and the mythical, and how his paintings were linked to his textual experiments. Tagore scholars from East, West, Central and Northern Europe, Indian public figures, writers and artists combine various approaches in their contributions.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Biography
Last updated on April 8, 2024 by ClearIAS Team
Rabindranath Tagore was an iconic figure in the Indian cultural renaissance. He was a polymath poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist.
Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his collection of poems, Gitanjali.
He was called Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi affectionately and his songs are popularly known as Rabindrasangeet.
The national anthems of India and Bangladesh – the Jana Gana Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla respectively are from the Rabindrasangeet.
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The early life of Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 th May 1861 in Calcutta as the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
His grandfather Dwarkanath Tagore was a rich landlord and social reformer. His father, Debendranath Tagore was a leader of the Brahmo Samaj , a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.
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The Tagore family was a treasure trove of talent in every field. They hosted the publication of literary magazines; theatre and recitals of Bengali and Western classical music featured there regularly. Tagore’s father invited several professional musicians to stay in the house and teach Indian Classical music to the children.
Tagore’s oldest brother Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet. Another brother, Satyendranath, was the first Indian appointed to the formerly all-European Indian Civil Service. Another brother, Jyotitindranath, was a musician, composer, and playwright. His sister Swarnakumari became a novelist.
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Rabindra Nath Tagore had his initial education in Oriental Seminary School. But he did not like the conventional education and started studying at home under several teachers. He was mostly trained by his siblings both in literary as well as physical activities like gymnastics and martial arts.
Tagore was a child prodigy when it comes to writing as he has started writing and publishing poetry by the age of eight.
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In 1873, at the age of eleven, Tagore and his father left Calcutta to tour India for several months. He visited his father’s Santiniketan estate and Amritsar before reaching the Himalayan hill station of Dalhousie where he read biographies, studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the classical poetry of Kalidasa.
At the age of seventeen, he was sent to England for formal law schooling but he did not finish his studies there. He rather took up independent studies of Shakespeare.
He returned from England in 1880 and regularly published poems, stories, and novels in Bengali, slowly starting to transform Bengali literature.
In 1883, he married Mrinalini Devi, a child bride as was the tradition in those times.
Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan
Tagore moved to Santiniketan ashram in 1901, where he started an experimental school based on traditional guru-shishya teaching methods from the Upanishads. He hoped that the revival of the ancient methods of teaching will be more beneficial than the British imparted modern education system.
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His wife and two of their children died during this time which left him distraught.
After his return from England and during his stay in Santiniketan, Tagore wrote several literary works of poetry, stories, and novels. His works had started gaining immense popularity in India as well as abroad.
In 1909, Rabindranath Tagore started writing Gitanjali. In 1912, Tagore went to Europe for the second time. On the journey to London, he translated some of his poems/songs from Gitanjali to English. He met William Rothenstein, a noted British painter, in London who was impressed by the poems, made copies, and gave to Yeats and other English poets. Yeats was enthralled and later wrote the introduction to Gitanjali when it was published in September 1912 in a limited edition by the India Society in London. And in 1913, this collection of poems won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first non-European to receive the prestigious award.
In 1915, he was awarded a knighthood by King George V.
Rabindranath Tagore in Independence movement
Tagore participated in the Indian nationalist movement from time to time, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India , was his devoted friend. Tagore came to be recognized as one of the architects of modern India.
India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru , wrote in Discovery of India , “Tagore and Gandhi have undoubtedly been the two outstanding and dominating figures in the first half of the twentieth century. Tagore’s influence over the mind of India, and especially of successive rising generations has been tremendous. Not Bengali only, the language in which he wrote, but all the modern languages of India have been molded partly by his writings. More than any other Indian, he has helped to bring into harmony the ideals of the East and the West, and broadened the bases of Indian nationalism.”
In 1905, Viceroy Curzon decided to divide Bengal into two parts. Rabindranath Tagore strongly protested against this decision. Tagore wrote many national songs and attended protest meetings. He initiated the Rakhibandhan ceremony, symbolizing the underlying unity of undivided Bengal.
In 1919, following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre , Tagore renounced his knighthood condemning the act. He was a supporter of Gandhiji but he stayed out of politics. He was opposed to nationalism and militarism as a matter of principle, and instead promoted spiritual values and the creation of a new world culture founded in multi-culturalism, diversity, and tolerance.
Tagore the educationalist
1n 1921, Rabindranath Tagore established Viswabharati University and gave all his money from Nobel Prize and royalty money from his books to this University.
Tagore was quite knowledgeable of Western culture, especially Western poetry and sciences. Tagore had a good grasp of modern – post-Newtonian – physics and was well able to hold his own in a debate with Einstein in 1930 on the newly emerging principles of quantum mechanics and chaos. His meetings and tape-recorded conversations with his contemporaries such as Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells, epitomize his brilliance.
In 1940 Oxford University arranged a special ceremony in Santiniketan and awarded Rabindranath Tagore with a Doctorate of Literature.
Literary works of Rabindranath Tagore
Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was, first of all, a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are:
Manasi (1890) (The Ideal One), Sonar Tari (1894) (The Golden Boat), Gitanjali (1910) (Song Offerings), Gitimalya (1914) (Wreath of Songs), and Balaka (1916) (The Flight of Cranes).
The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali.
Tagore’s major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office] , Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders].
He is the author of several volumes of short stories and many novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [ The Home and the World ], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents].
Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.
He also played the title role in his first original dramatic piece- Valmiki Pratibha.
After an extended period of suffering, Tagore died on August 7, 1941, in the same mansion in which he was brought up.
Legacy of Rabindranath Tagore:
Rabindranath Tagore changed the way Bengali literature was perceived as he left an everlasting impression on the readers.
Many countries have his statues erected and host many yearly events to pay tribute to the legendary writer.
Many of his works have been made global, thanks to a host of translations by many famous international writers.
There are five museums dedicated to Tagore. While three of them are situated in India, the remaining two are in Bangladesh. The museums’ house his famous works, and are visited by millions every year.
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From the artistic point of view, however, Tagore excelled in the art of short story writing. As Bhattacharya wrote, "The short story was intrinsically suited to Tagore's temperament and it could carry the strongest echoes of his essentially poetic genius." ... Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography, Oxford University Press (London), 1962. Lago ...
On August 7, 1941, Tagore died at his family home in Calcutta. Summary. Internationally known as a humanist who sought to reconcile such apparent opposites as man and nature, materialism and ...
Rabindranath Tagore. born May 7, 1861 , Calcutta, India. died Aug. 7, 1941 , Calcutta. Rabindranath Tagore is regarded as one of the greatest writers in modern Indian literature. Bengali poet, novelist and educator, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a ...
Rabindranath's grandfather, Dwarkanath Tagore, lived lavishly and broke the Hindu religious ban of those times by travelling to Europe, just like his contemporary, Rammohan Roy, the nineteenth century social and religious reformer. Roy started a religious reform movement in 1828 that came to be known as the Brahma Samaj Movement.
Rabindranath Tagore; a biography by Kripalani, Krishna, 1907-1993. Publication date 1962 Topics ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.9 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date ... Be the first one to write a review. 86 Previews . DOWNLOAD OPTIONS No suitable files to display here. ...
Download Free PDF. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)* A Biographical Sketch Uma Das Gupta Family Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861. He belonged to a remarkable family. They traced their connection as far back to the end of the seventeenth century with the area now occupied by Calcutta, India.
compared with Rabindranath Tagore's. Through days filled to overflowing with other work I have been oppressed by the knowledge that, even in my own tongue, Rabindranath was all the while lecturing and writing faster than I could hope to read. I cannot pretend to have read more than a considerable fraction
Rabindranath Tagore. : Uma Dasgupta. Oxford University Press, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 104 pages. Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known to us today primarily as a poet and littérateur. Not many people, though, are aware of the vital significance of his efforts in the field of education and rural reconstruction.
Rabindranath Tagore, born May 7, 1861, in Kolkata, India—died August 7, 1941. Bengali poet, short-story writer, music composer, playwright, novelist, and painter brought new prose and verse forms and colloquial language into Bengali literature, freeing it from standard methods based on classical Sanskrit.
The Works of Rabindranath Tagore consist of poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and essays that Bengali poet and Brahmo philosopher Rabindranath Tagore created over his lifetime. This ebook presents a collection of all major works of Tagore. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Rabindranath Tagore. 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 as laid down in the Upanishads.
Back in his hometown, he devoted himself completely towards his love for reading and writing. In 1882, he wrote one of his most acclaimed poems, 'Nirjharer Swapnabhanga'. In 1883, Tagore married Mrinalini Devi and fathered five children. In 1890, his compilation of poems, 'Manasi' was released. The period between 1891 and 1895 saw the ...
In 1909, Rabindranath Tagore started writing Gitanjali. In 1912, Tagore went to Europe for the second time. On the journey to London, he translated some of his poems/songs from Gitanjali to English. He met William Rothenstein, a noted British painter, in London who was impressed by the poems, made copies, and gave to Yeats and other English poets.
Rabindranath Tagore : an anthology by Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941. Publication date ... xi, 416 pages ; 25 cm Contains a play, short stories, a novel travel writings, letters, songs, epigrams, and essays by India's, indeed Asia's, first Nobel prize winner for literature Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-416) ... PDF access not ...
Selected short stories by Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941. Publication date 2002 Topics Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Translations into English Publisher ... Be the first one to write a review. 690 Views . 13 Favorites. Purchase options Better World Books. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS No suitable files to display here. ...