Learn about the life and works of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian Nobel laureate and the author of India's national anthem. Explore his childhood, education, career, achievements, and legacy in this comprehensive biography. Poet, writer and humanitarian, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and he played a key role in the renaissance of modern India. Tagore is most widely known for his poetry, but he was also an accomplished author of novels, short stories, plays and articles. He took an […] Home Biography Biography 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. Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, novelist, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and Bengal Renaissance painter. Indian literature and music were transformed by the Bengali poet, dramatist, novelist, philosopher, and artist Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941).
