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Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941

Indian polymath (1861–1941)

Victorian Era

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Key Dates

Birth

1861 May 7, 1861 →

Biography

Rabindranath Thakur, also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha was a Bengali polymath of the Bengal Renaissance period. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he has written and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

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Timeline

1861
Birth

Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

May 7 →
1941
Death

Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)

August 7 →

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