This document provides a biography of Rabindranath Tagore in 12 sections. It details his early years and education in India and London. Tagore published his first works as a teenager and gained popularity for his poems, stories, plays, and novels in Bengali literature. In 1913, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his translated work Gitanjali. Tagore founded a school in Shantiniketan and travelled extensively to lecture on nationalism, personality, and promote internationalism. The document lists some of his major works in Bengali and evaluates his philosophy which incorporated nature, God, and world unity.

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3. 1 BIOGRAPHY
2 EARLY YEARS
3 SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LIFE
4. MARRIAGE
5. FAME ANDINTERNATIONALRECOGNITION
6. POLITICAL
OPINION
7. MAJOR WORKS
8. HIS PHILOSOPHY
9. AW
ARDSANDACHIEVEMENTS
10. SOME OF HIS QUOTES AND
PAINTINGS
11. TRIVIA
12. EVALUATION OF TAGORE’S PHILOSOPHY

4. BIOGRAPHY
From 1861
1941
1941
To

5. YOUNG TAGORE

7. At the age of 16, he published his first
substantial poetry under the
pseudonym- Bhanushingho [Sun Lion]
and wrote his first book of short stories
and dramas.
His father wanted him to become a
Barrister and he was sent to England for
this reason.
In 1879, he enrolled at University College, London, but was called
back by his father to return to India in 1880.

8. ❖ He read law at University
College,
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9. ▪ In 1901, he moved to Shantiniketan, where he composed
‘Naivedya’, published in 1901 and ‘Kheya’, published in 1906. By
then, several of his works were published and he had gained
immensely popularityamong Bengali readers.
▪ In 1912, he went to England and took a sheaf of his translated
works with him. There he introduced his works to some of the
prominent writers of that era, including William Butler Yeats,
Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, and Thomas Sturge
Moore.
▪ In 1890, while on a visit to his ancestral estate
in Shelaidaha, his collection of poems,
‘Manasi’, was released. The period between
1891 and 1895 proved to be fruitful during
which, he authored a massive three volume
collection of short stories, ‘Galpaguchchha’.

10. ●His popularity in English speaking nations grew
manifold after the publication of ‘Gitanjali: Song
Offerings’ and later in 1913, he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
●In 1915, he was also granted knighthood by the British
Crown, which he renounced after the 1919 Jalianwala
Bagh massacre.
●From May 1916 to April 1917, he stayed in Japan and the
U.S. where he delivered lectures on ‘Nationalism’ and on
Personality’.
●In 1920s and 1930s, he travelled extensively around the
world; visiting Latin America, Europe and South-east
Asia. During his extensive tours, he earned a cult
following and endless admirers.

13. Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One]
Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat]
Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings]
Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs]
Balaka (1916) [A Flight of Swans]

14. Tagore’s MajorDramas
R
aja(1910) [The King of the Dark Chambers]
Dakghar(1912) [The Post Office]
Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable]
M
uktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall]
Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Orleander]
Tagore’s Major Novels
Gora(1910)
Ghare-B
aire(1916) [The Home and the World]
Yogayog(1926) [Crosscurrents]

15. Gitanjali is a collection of poems .The original Bengali
collection of 157 poems was published on August 14,
1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a
collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English
of his Bengali poems first published in
1912 by the India Society of London. It
translations
November
contained translations of 53 poems from the
original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which
were from his drama Achalayatan and eight other books of
poetry — mainly Gitimalya (17 poems), Naivedya (15
poems) and Kheya (11 poems).
In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize for
English Gitanjali. The English Gitanjali became
Literature largely for the
very
famous in the West, and was widely translated.
The word gitanjali is composed from "gita", song, and
"anjali", offering, and thus means – "An offering of songs";
but the word for offering, anjali, has a strong devotional
connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer
offering of song".

19. As a Naturalist: He considered nature as a great teacher.
God revealed himself through various forms, colors and
rhythm of nature.
Tagore’s Internationalism: He was an ardent prophet of
world unity.
He believed in world brotherhood.

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21. SOME OF HIS QUOTES

22. S OME OF HIS
PA INT INGS

23. T R IVIA