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Rabindranath Tagore

Died in 1941

Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, in the family house at Jorasanko, the last of the fourteen children of Debendranath Tagore, a leading figure of the Brahmo Samaj. Taught at home by tutors, he left in 1878 to study law in London, without completing his studies. From 1890 he managed the family estates at Shelaidaha, in eastern Bengal, and in 1901 he opened a school at Santiniketan. A friend of Gandhi, knighted in 1915, he renounced his title in 1919 after the Amritsar massacre. He died at Jorasanko on 7 August 1941; his songs provided the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

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