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What was Rabindranath Tagore's profession?
What was Rabindranath Tagore's profession?
- Writer, poet, and social reformer (correct)
- Politician and diplomat
- Businessman and entrepreneur
- Scientist and inventor
Where did Tagore receive his formal education?
Where did Tagore receive his formal education?
- In a local school in Bengal
- At home
- In a university in India
- In England (correct)
What did Tagore do with his family estates?
What did Tagore do with his family estates?
- Abandoned them
- Donated them to charity
- Managed them (correct)
- Sold them off
Why did Tagore resign his knighthood?
Why did Tagore resign his knighthood?
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What was Tagore's primary literary genre?
What was Tagore's primary literary genre?
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- Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali writer, poet, and social reformer.
- He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj.
- Tagore was educated at home and went to England for formal schooling but did not finish his studies there.
- He managed the family estates and started an experimental school at Shantiniketan.
- Tagore participated in the Indian nationalist movement in his own non-sentimental and visionary way.
- He was knighted by the British Government in 1915 but resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.
- Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, but he was first of all a poet.
- His major works include Gitanjali, The Gardener, Fruit-Gathering, and The Fugitive.
- Tagore also wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies.
- He died on August 7, 1941.
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