Rabindranath Tagore

Shuddha Satya Biswas

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Index• Introduction• Early-life• Young Age• As a poet• Roll in freedom• Use pen as sword• Partition of Bangal• Return Knighthood• Established Visva-

Bharati• As a versatile person• Last life• Acknowledgement• bibliography

Introduction

Rabindranath Tagore sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengalipolymath who reshaped Bengali literatureand music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His wide experience of Life reflected through his writing. As Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive,fresh and beautiful verse“ . He was not an active freedom fighter but he impaired people by “his elegant prose and magical poetry”.

Early Life Rabindranath Tagore was born into a distinguished Bengali family in Calcutta, West Bengal on 1861. His father's name was the Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a well known Hindu rereformer and mystic and his mother was Shrimati Sharada Devi. Tagore received his education at home. He was taught in Bengali, with English lessons in the afternoon. He read the Bengali poets since his early age and himself began writing poetry himself by the age of eight.

Rabindranath Tagore did have a brief spell at St Xavier's Jesuit school, but found the conventional system of education uncongenial

His father wanted him to become a barrister and he was sent to England for this reason.

Mid-life in 1878 he went to England to study

Law but he didn’t complete. in 1983, 9th dec he married Mrinalini

Devi. They have five children.

In 1901 he moved to Bolpur, Santiniktan.

In 1921 Tagore established ‘Sriniketan’, sought to moderate Gandhi's Swaraj protests, which he occasionally blamed for British India's perceived mental—and thus ultimately colonial—decline

As a poet

His first poem published in “Tatwabhononi” magazine in 1874

He was influenced by Kalidaas, william shakespeare.

Some of his famous writtings are ‘Manasi’; ’Sonar Tori’; ’Balaka’;’ ‘Purobi’.

became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercuria

Role in India’s freedom Tagore joined National Congress.

Tagore lampooned the Swadeshi movement; he rebuked it in "The Cult of the Charka", an acrid 1925 essay.

The Swadeshi Movement, beginning with the Partition of Bengal in 1905 and continuing till 1908

The boycott of foreign goods was but a small part of a more disturbing turn in anti- colonial politics, the rise of revolutionary nationalism

Tagore withdrew from the forefront of the nationalist movement after an eighteen year old, Khudiram Bose.

Use pen as a sword

• Tagore protest against British through his pen.

• Wrote “ghare baire” on the basis of “swadeshi movement.

• Wrote the novel “gora” in the year of 1910 to protest for the anti-apartheid.

• To influence the youth he wrote “ekla cholo re”

• He also wrote “jana gana mana” which is now our national

Partition of Bangal(1905)

He took a main role to prevent ‘Bengal Division’ for strengthen bond of love and togetherness between the Hindus and the Muslims of Bengal and together fight against the British empire.

he organized ‘Rakhi Bandhan Utsav’ Rakhi dates back to the year 1905 when the British

empire decided to divide Bengal, a state of British India on the basis of caste and religion.

He wrote a song “Aamar Sonar Bangla”. The song was written in 1905 during the first Partition of Bangal

He wrote novel “Gore Baire”. The book shows various national and regional campaigns of both militant and non-violent ideas which all had the common goal of ending British colonial.

Return Knighthood He was always a poet foremost, but due to the situation he was born into, his

role in India's independence movement was to inspire faith in the dream that was unfulfilled.

The British government conferred upon him a knighthood celebrating the occasion of the King Emperor. However, in 1916, the poet renounced this knightship in protest to the “Jallianwala Bagh massacre” of 1919 where 379 people were killed as the Imperial Government obtained the right to jail without trial, anyone whom they regarded as fractious.

Tagore was not a supporter of the non-cooperation movement as he felt the end result of disassociation from the British would be futile, since the future would only lead back to assimilation

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore differed in this way in their thinking on how to free India. Tagore and Gandhi, however, had a fond affinity for one another. Gandhi termed Tagore as his "Gurudev”

As a versatile man

Known mostly for his poetry, although, Tagore wrote 13 novels, 36essays, 95 short stories, travelogues, 38 dramas

He wrote over two thousand songs and composed that.

At sixty, Tagore took up drawing and painting. By his painting he wanted to express socity at that time.

Tagore, has a worship of science.

His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature.

Bibliography

• www.wikipedia.com• nobel.org• History.com• www. Live India.com