About Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath
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. He was educated at home; and although at
seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his
studies there. 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 also
started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic
ideals of education. 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. 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.
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