Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, artist, and composer from India. He wrote many short stories, novels, songs, and dramas. Tagore was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was knighted by the British government but later resigned the honor in protest of British policies in India. Tagore influenced Bengali culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and founded an experimental school in Shantiniketan.