Q. The father of Rabindrabhanath Tagore was
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Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindrabhanath Tagore was born at Calcutta in West Bengal as the son of Mahrshi Devendranath Tagore and Sarada devi.
- One of Rabindrabhanath Tagore’s brothers, Satyendranth Tagore was the first Indian to get selected for the ICS in 1864.
- In 1901, Tagore established a school at Shanti Nikethan which finally devolped into the world famous University of ViswaBharthi in 1921.
- In 1912 Tagore Published Jana Gana Mana ( Now India’s national anthem)
- The national anthem is composed in the Raga,’Sankarabharanam”.
- The English translation of the national anthem is ” The morning song of India”
- In 1913,Tagore’s Gitanjali was selected for the Nobel Prize for liteature.
- Tagore also wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh ‘ Amar Sonar Bengala ‘
- In 1915, Tagore was awarded Knighthood by the British Monarch George V,but he surrenderd it in 1919 as a protest aganist the Jallianwallabagh Massacre.
- ‘Jeevan Smiriti’ is the Autobiography of Tagore.
- ‘Gora’,’Raja and Rani’,’Rajarishi’,’Kabooliwala’ etc are the famous novels of Tagore.
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