Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific Indian polymath from Bengal who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received little formal education but was taught at home from a young age, developing an interest in poetry. Tagore went to England to study law but did not complete his studies. He established Visva-Bharati University which sought to promote international understanding. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, becoming the first non-European laureate. Though he protested British rule through his writings, he disagreed with Gandhi's calls for non-cooperation with the British administration.

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3. Index
• Introduction
• Early-life
• Young Age
• As a poet
• Roll in freedom
• Use pen as sword
• Partition of Bangal
• Return Knighthood
• Established Visva-
Bharati
• As a versatile person
• Last life
• Acknowledgement
• bibliography

4. Introduction
Rabindranath Tagore sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengalipolymath
who reshaped Bengali literatureand music, as well as Indian
art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. His wide experience of Life reflected through his
writing. As Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly
sensitive,fresh and beautiful verse“ . He was not an active
freedom fighter but he impaired people by “his elegant prose
and magical poetry”.

5. Early Life
 Rabindranath Tagore was born into a distinguished Bengali
family in Calcutta, West Bengal on 1861. His father's name was
the Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a well known Hindu
rereformer and mystic and his mother was Shrimati Sharada
Devi.
 Tagore received his education at home. He was taught in
Bengali, with English lessons in the afternoon. He read the
Bengali poets since his early age and himself began writing
poetry himself by the age of eight.
 Rabindranath Tagore did have a brief spell at St Xavier's
Jesuit school, but found the conventional system of education
uncongenial
 His father wanted him to become a barrister and he was
sent to England for this reason.

6. Mid-life
 in 1878 he went to England to study
Law but he didn’t complete.
 in 1983, 9th dec he married Mrinalini
Devi. They have five children.
 In 1901 he moved to Bolpur,
Santiniktan.
 In 1921 Tagore established ‘Sriniketan’,
sought to moderate Gandhi's Swaraj
protests, which he occasionally blamed
for British India's perceived mental—
and thus ultimately colonial—decline

7. As a poet
 His first poem published in “Tatwabhononi”
magazine in 1874
 He was influenced by Kalidaas, william
shakespeare.
 Some of his famous writtings are ‘Manasi’;
’Sonar Tori’; ’Balaka’;’ ‘Purobi’.
 became the first non-European to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.] In
translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual
and mercuria

8. Role in India’s freedom
 Tagore joined National Congress.
 Tagore lampooned the Swadeshi movement; he
rebuked it in "The Cult of the Charka", an acrid
1925 essay.
 The Swadeshi Movement, beginning with the
Partition of Bengal in 1905 and continuing till
1908
 The boycott of foreign goods was but a small
part of a more disturbing turn in anti- colonial
politics, the rise of revolutionary nationalism
 Tagore withdrew from the forefront of the
nationalist movement after an eighteen year
old, Khudiram Bose.

9. Use pen as a sword
• Tagore protest against British through his
pen.
• Wrote “ghare baire” on the basis of
“swadeshi movement.
• Wrote the novel “gora” in the year of
1910 to protest for the anti-apartheid.
• To influence the youth he wrote “ekla
cholo re”
• He also wrote “jana gana mana” which is
now our national

10. Partition of Bangal(1905)
 He took a main role to prevent ‘Bengal Division’ for
strengthen bond of love and togetherness between
the Hindus and the Muslims of Bengal and together
fight against the British empire.
 he organized ‘Rakhi Bandhan Utsav’
 Rakhi dates back to the year 1905 when the British
empire decided to divide Bengal, a state of British
India on the basis of caste and religion.
 He wrote a song “Aamar Sonar Bangla”. The song
was written in 1905 during the first Partition of
Bangal
 He wrote novel “Gore Baire”. The book shows
various national and regional campaigns of both
militant and non-violent ideas which all had the
common goal of ending British colonial.

11. Return Knighthood
 He was always a poet foremost, but due to the situation he was born into, his
role in India's independence movement was to inspire faith in the dream that
was unfulfilled.
 The British government conferred upon him a knighthood celebrating the
occasion of the King Emperor. However, in 1916, the poet renounced this
knightship in protest to the “Jallianwala Bagh massacre” of 1919 where 379
people were killed as the Imperial Government obtained the right to jail
without trial, anyone whom they regarded as fractious.
 Tagore was not a supporter of the non-cooperation movement as he felt the
end result of disassociation from the British would be futile, since the future
would only lead back to assimilation
 Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore differed in this way in their
thinking on how to free India. Tagore and Gandhi, however, had a fond affinity
for one another. Gandhi termed Tagore as his "Gurudev”

12. As a versatile man
 Known mostly for his poetry, although, Tagore wrote
13 novels, 36essays, 95 short stories, travelogues, 38
dramas
 He wrote over two thousand songs and composed
that.
 At sixty, Tagore took up drawing and painting. By his
painting he wanted to express socity at that time.
 Tagore, has a worship of science.
 His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic,
optimistic, and lyrical nature.

14. Bibliography
• www.wikipedia.com
• nobel.org
• History.com
• www. Live India.com