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Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941) was the
youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, born in Calcutta. He was educated at home; and
although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his
studies there. Tagore participated in the Indian nationalist movement in his own visionary
way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. He won the
1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in
1915, but within a few years he resigned the honor as a protest against British policies
in India.
- The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra
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