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Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore c. 1925
Born	Robindronath Thakur 7 May 1861 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died	7 August 1941 (aged 80) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Resting place	Ashes scattered in the Ganges
Occupation	Poet writer composer painter
Language	Bengali
Nationality	British Indian
Period	Bengali Renaissance
Literary movement	Contextual Modernism
Notable works	Gitanjali Ghare-Baire Gora Jana Gana Mana Rabindra Sangeet Amar Shonar Bangla (other works)
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Spouse	Mrinalini Devi (m. 1883; wid. 1902)
Children	5, including Rathindranath Tagore
Relatives	Tagore family
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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".

A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's "Jana Gana Mana" and Bangladesh's "Amar Shonar Bangla". The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

• Gitanjali: Song Offerings
• The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore
• The Home and the World
• Gora
• Kabuliwala
• Stray Birds
• The Post Office
• Sadhana – The Realisation of Life
• The Gardener ⎯ Beautiful Love Poems
• Nationalism in India
• My boyhood days
• The Religion of Man
• The Hungry Stones And Other Stories
• Glimpses of Bengal
• My Reminiscences
• Fruit Gathering
• Creative Unity
• Red Oleanders
• The Spirit of Japan