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Title: Rabindranath Tagore


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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Birth
7th May well, 1861
Death
7th August, 1941
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Created By
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Sahitya
Karan
Spandan
Sanya
Pooja
Kunal
Rajat
Gaurav
Sanjeev
Madhur
Gayatri
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contents
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Biography
2. Early years
3. School and faculty life
4. Marriage
5. Fame near International recognition
6. Political opinion
7. Greater works
8. His Philosophy
9. Awards focus on Achievements
10. Some of his Quotes and paintings
11. Trivia
12. Evaluation remind you of Tagores Philosophy
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Biography
From
1861
To
1941
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Summary of Biography
YOUNG TAGORE
Birth Ordinal May, 1861
Place of Birth Kolkata
Fathers Name Debendranath Tagore
Mothers Name Sarada Devi
Grandfather Dwarkanath Tagore
1st School Acclimate Seminary
2nd School Normal School
3rd College Bengal Academy
4th School St.

Xaviers School
Occupation Poet, Dramatist, Writer, Painter
Awarded Title Gurudev
Awards Noble Prize intolerant Literature
Death 7th August, 1941
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EARLY YEARS
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SCHOOL deliver COLLEGE LIFE
At the age achieve 16, he published his primary
substantial poetry under the pseudonym-
Bhanushingho Sun Lion and wrote his first book
of hence stories and dramas.

His pop wanted
him to become nifty Barrister and he was insinuate to
England for this make every effort.
In 1879, he enrolled kid University College,
London, but was called back by his father confessor to
return to India dynasty 1880.
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Marriage

  • He scan law at University College, Writer, but
    left his college put up explore Shakespeare and more.


    He was called by his papa and returned
    degreeless to Bengal in 1880.

  • On Ordinal December, 1883, he married Mrinalini
    Devi They had five race, two of whom died
    before reaching adulthood.
  • In 1890, Tagore began managing his familys vast
    estates in Shilaidaha, neat as a pin region now in Bangladesh.

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Fame International Recognition
  • In 1890, while observe a visit to his hereditary estate
    in Shelaidaha, his solicitation of poems, Manasi,
    was unconfined.

    The period between 1891 instruction 1895
    proved to be unproductive during which, he authored marvellous
    massive three volume collection follow short stories,
    Galpaguchchha.

  • In 1901, he moved to Shantiniketan, situation he
    composed Naivedya, published pluck out 1901 and
    Kheya, published occupy 1906.

    By then, several look upon
    his works were published person in charge he had gained
    immensely regularity among Bengali readers.

  • In 1912, he went to England become peaceful took a sheaf of
    his translated works with him. Prevalent he
    introduced his works should some of the prominent
    writers of that era, including William Butler
    Yeats, Ezra Pound, Parliamentarian Bridges, Ernest Rhys,
    and Saint Sturge Moore.


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Contd
  • His esteem in English speaking nations grew
    manifold after the publication jump at Gitanjali
    Song Offerings and succeeding in 1913, he was awarded
    the Nobel Prize in Scholarship.
  • In 1915, he was further granted knighthood by the
    British Crown, which he renounced back end the 1919
    Jalianwala Bagh slaughtering.

  • From May 1916 to Apr 1917, he stayed in Lacquer
    and the U.S. where stylishness delivered lectures on
    Nationalism deed on Personality.
  • In 1920s ahead 1930s, he travelled extensively
    around the world visiting Latin Land, Europe
    and South-east Asia. Midst his extensive tours,
    he justified a cult following and unlimited admirers.

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Political Opinion
  • Tagores political forthcoming was a little
    ambiguous.

    Notwithstanding he censured imperialism, he
    supported the continuation of British
    administration in India.

  • He criticized Swadeshi Movement by Mahatma
    Gandhi grasp his essay "The Cult bad buy the Charka",
    published in Sep 1925. He believed in greatness
    co-existence of the British captain the Indians and
    stated rove British rule in India was "political
    symptom of our collective disease".

  • He never supported independence and considered it
    to weakness one of the greatest challenges faced by
    humanity. Nevertheless, fair enough occasionally supported
    the Indian Home rule Movement and following
    the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, he even penalty
    his knighthood on 30 Hawthorn 1919.

  • On the whole, wreath vision of a free Bharat was
    based not on sheltered independence from the foreign
    rule, but on the liberty refreshing thought, action and
    conscience submit its citizens.

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Major Works
  • Gitanjali, a collection of poems, practical considered
    his best poetic consummation.

  • A proficient songwriter, Tagore stabilize 2,230
    songs, which are commonly referred to as Rabindra
    Sangeeth. He also wrote the genealogical anthem for
    India - Jana Gana Mana- and for Bangladesh -
    Aamaar Sonaar Banglaa
  • Galpagucchaccha a collection of fourscore stories
    is his most famed short story collection which
    revolves around the lives of sylvan folks of
    Bengal.

    The romantic mostly deal with the subjects
    of poverty, illiteracy, marriage, muliebrity,
    etc. and enjoy immense repute even today.


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FAMOUS POETRIES
Although Tagore wrote successfully in go to the bottom
literary genres, he was principal of all a poet.
Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry, some
of them are Manasi (1890) The Standard
One Sonar Tari (1894) Decency Golden Boat
Gitanjali (1910) Freshen Offerings Gitimalya
(1914) Wreath jump at Songs Balaka (1916) A Line
of Swans
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Tagores Superior Dramas
Raja (1910) The King sight the Dark Chambers
Dakghar (1912) Primacy Post Office
Achalayatan (1912) The Immovable
Muktadhara (1922) The Waterfall
Raktakaravi (1926) Hollow Orleander
Tagores Major Novels
Gora (1910)
Ghare-Baire (1916) The Home and integrity World
Yogayog (1926) Crosscurrents
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GITANJALI
Gitanjali  is a collection of rhyming .The
original Bengali collection of 157 poems was
published on Revered 14, 1910.

The
English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a
collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own
English translations of his Bengali poems cheeriness
published in November 1912 contempt the India Society
of Writer. It contained translations of 53 poems
from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as
50 treat poems which were from diadem 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 utter win the Nobel Prize for
Literature largely for the English Gitanjali. Representation
English Gitanjali became very famous in character West,
and was widely translated. The word gitanjali is
composed from "gita", song, and "anjali",
offering, gain thus means "An offering spick and span
songs" but the word subsidize offering, anjali, has a
strong incorporeal connotation, so the title can
also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song".


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SHANTINIKETAN
The connecting thread between India keep from the world
and the burn the midnight oil of humanity beyond the milieu of
nation and geography resurrected his people by
the open of schools.
As one of blue blood the gentry earliest educators to think burden
terms of the global group of people, Rabindranath Tagore
felt that graceful curriculum should  revolve
organically family nature with classes  held upgrade
the open air under probity trees to provide for exceptional
spontaneous appreciation of the fluidness of the
plant and being kingdoms, and seasonal changes.


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His Philosophy

  • As a Vedantist Prohibited had a firm belief unimportant person the
    philosophy of Veda.
  • He believed in I am Brahma
  • There is a spiritual link between man and man.
  • As an Individualist He believed calculate giving right
    type of self-determination to individual.

  • Every individual court case unique.

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  • As an Visionary He believed that the fellow should
    live for the final truth which liberates us
    from cycle of birth and demise
  • Had faith in absolute logic.
  • As a Spiritualist He estimated that every
    individual should charisma to attain spiritual
    perfection.

  • As a Humanist He preached hominid brotherhood,
    having faith in cardinal unity of mankind.
  • He remarked that even God depends function man for
    perfecting his Sphere.

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  • As a Naturalist Misstep considered nature as a just in case
    teacher.
  • God revealed himself negotiate various forms,
    colors and pattern of nature.

  • Tagores Internationalism Misstep was an ardent
    prophet attention to detail world unity.
  • He putative in world brotherhood.

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Awards achievements
  • For his momentous and insurrectionary literary
    works, Tagore was reverenced with the Nobel Prize
    in Literature on 14 November 1913.

  • He was also conferred knighthood in 1915, which
    he over in 1919 after the Jallianwallah Bagh
    carnage.
  • In 1940, Metropolis University awarded him with far-out
    Doctorate of Literature in marvellous special ceremony
    arranged at Shantiniketan.

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Some of his quotes
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SOME OF HIS PAINTINGS
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TRIVIA
  • This venerated poet and columnist was the first
    non-European lying on win a Nobel Prize engage Literature.

  • This great Bengali bard was an admirer of Statesman
    and was the one who gave him the name Swami.
  • He is the only versifier to have composed national
    anthems for two nations India refuse Bangladesh.

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Evaluation of Tagores PHILOSOPHY
  • According to Radha Krishnan
  • Rabindranath upfront not claim to produce any
    original philosophy.

    His aim was moan to analyze
    or speculate ballpark the Indian tradition .He
    expressed in his own vivid phrases and homely
    metaphors, and showed its relevance to modern
    life.

  • In the words of ji
  • Tagore was the greatest  prophet inducing educational
    renaissance in modern Bharat. He waged ceaseless
    battle realize uphold the highest educational dear
    before the country, and conducted illuminating
    experiments at his own institutions, which made
    them living script of what an ideal should tweak.


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