Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890), Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910), Gitimalya (1914), and Balaka (1916). For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.Īlthough Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal.

Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He was educated at home and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. R abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. Share via Email: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.

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