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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath known for his poetry, music, and cultural influence in India.

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Rabindranath Tagore is best known for First Indian and non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, composer of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. On Dead or Alive, Rabindranath Tagore is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Rabindranath Tagore is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: First Indian and non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, composer of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
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About Rabindranath Tagore

In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobriquets Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Bishwokobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore and Bardhaman districts, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain.

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