Biography of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest Bengali poet, was born in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkata, India on May 7, 1861. He was the fourteenth child of his parents. Tagore did not go to school at all. He learnt drawing, anatomy, geography, history, literature, mathematics and English at home.

He attended Presidency College for a single day. He went to England in 1878 to become a barrister. He enrolled at a public school in Brighton. But he again left school. In 1880, he returned to India without any qualification.

In 1890, Tagore began managing their estates in Shelaidaha in Kushtia. He stayed there till 1900. Then he went to Santiniketon in 1901 and founded an ashram. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1930. He died on August 7, 1941.