Rabindranath Tagore(May 7 1861-7 Aug 1941)
Author of Gitanjali
The first non-European(Asian) to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works
His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: the India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The composer of Sri Lanka's national anthem: Sri Lanka Matha was a student( Ananda Samarakoon) of Tagore, and the song is inspired by Tagore's style.
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His Brother Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.
In 1901 Tagore moved to Santiniketan
In 1915, the British Crown granted Tagore a knighthood. He renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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