Last years (1932–1941) Įven during the last decade of his life, Tagore continued his activism. He also founded a school named "Sriniketan" for teaching agriculture and crafts at Surul at a distance of about three kilometers from Shantiniketan. He lectured on the evils of such practices and also wrote many poems and dramas on these themes. In the early 1930s, Tagore also grew more concerned about India's "abnormal caste consciousness" and differences based on castes.
Its goal was to use schooling to "free village from. Tagore recruited many scholars and officials from many countries to help the Institute. Elmhirst set up the Institute for Rural Reconstruction in a village named Surul, near Tagore's ashram at Shantiniketan. In 1921, Tagore and an agricultural economist named Leonard K. During this massacre, troops of the British Raj killed people who had no weapons. However, he gave back the title in 1919 to protest the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar. The British Crown gave Tagore a knighthood in 1915. The Swedish Academy had selected him based on a small number of his translated works, and his 1912 work of poems named Gitanjali: Song Offerings. On November 13, 1913, Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rabindranath's father bought a large parcel of land in Santiniketan, intending to establish a preparatory school. He was very popular among readers of the Bengali language, as well as other people who knew his works through translations and reviews. He also started receiving some royalties for his literary works. On January 19, 1905, Tagore's father also died.īy this time, Tagore had started receiving monthly income as part of his inheritance. Tagore's wife and two of his children died in Shantiniketan. He planted many trees and built a garden. He built a prayer hall, a school, and a library. In English, "Shantiniketan" means "an abode of peace". He went to Shantiniketan ( West Bengal) to build an ashram (which is like a monastery in Indian religions). Between 1891–1895, he wrote many short stories about life in Bengal, especially rural life. In 1898, Tagore's wife and children joined him there. In 1890, Tagore began managing his family's estates in Sheildah, now in Bangladesh. Together they had five children, but two died during childhood. Child marriage was common during that time. His father arranged a marriage for him with Mrinalini Devi, a girl of ten years. But in 1880, after Tagore did not do well in school, his father called him back from London.
Later he studied at University College London. He enrolled at a public school in Brighton, England. Tagore wrote a poem in the style of Vidyapati, a famous poet who wrote in Maithili. One of them was a long poem in Maithili (the language spoken by the people of Mithila, India).
He also read works of Kalidas.ĭuring this time, Tagore also composed many literary works.
There he read biographies and studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit. Tagore also visited his father's estate at Shantiniketan. They visited many places like Amritsar in Punjab (British India), and Dalhousie in the Himalayas. In February 1873, at age 11, Tagore went on a tour of India with his father. In 1877, at the age of 16, Tagore published his first large poetry collection and wrote his first short story and dramas. Tagore wrote his first poem when he was eight years old. He was the youngest of his parents' 14 children. Tagore was born in the city of Kolkata (Calcutta), at 6 Dwarkanath Tagore Lahne, Jorasanko Thakur Bari.
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