Name: RAHMAN, FAHIM

ID= 21-44399-1
Course Name=Bangladesh Studies
Section= [A]
Presentation Topic=Presentation on a famous personality.
Name of the famous personality=Rabindranath Tagore.
Early Life and family background:
• Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th
May 1861 in Calcutta during British
Raj.
• He was born on the prominent
Tagore Zamindari Family
• His father was Debendranath Tagore
who was a Hindu philosopher and
religious reformer and his mother was
Sarada Devi.
• Tagore despised formal education and
so he was home school by his brother
Hemandranath.
Adolescent and youth:
• At the age of 11 when he was considered as
coming to age he and his father left Kolkata in
February 1873 for an India tour for several
months when he read biographies studied
history, astronomy, modern science, Sanskrit,
   etc.
• Since his father wanted him to be a barrister
Tagore headed for Britain in 1878 where he
attended lectures briefly at University College,
   London which he left to pursue English Literature
Homeland return, marriage and further life:
• Rabindranath Tagore returned back to Bengal in 1880 degree-less,
resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking
the best from each and started writing poems, novels and stories.
• He married Mrinali Devi who was 10 years old at that time(it was a
tradition to marry young girls at that time).Together they had 5 children;
two of them died in childhood.
• In 1890 Tagore began managing his vast ancestral estates in Shilaidaha ,
  Bangladesh as a Zamindar where he would roam around and meet with
  Baul poet, Gagan Harkara and then he went to popularize Lalon songs.
Tagore's house in
Shilaidaha, Bangladesh.

Tagore's family boat

at Padma river. 
 Involvement in politics:
• Tagore's politics exhibited a marked
ambivalence—on the one hand, he
denounced European imperialism, 
    on the other hand he shunned
   the swadeshi movement.
• He viewed the British rule of India as
"a political symptom of our social
disease''.
• Tagore denounced nationalism and
Tagore meeting with Mahatma Gandhi at instead advocated for humanity.
Shantiniketan in 1940.
Knighthood and its repudiation:
• Rabindranath Tagore was awarded
Knighthood by the then King of
England George V in 1915.
• In 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
   Occurred where the British open fired
   On hundreds of unarmed Indians
   Which resulted to at least 379 deaths
   As a response Tagore asked the British
   To repudiate his Knighthood
Works of Rabindranath Tagore:
• Known mostly for his poetry, Tagore wrote novels, essays, short stories,
travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs.
• Some of the notable dramas are Valmiki Pratibha,Visarjan,Dak Ghar,
   Chandalika,Raktakarabi,etc.
• Tagore effectively invented the Bengali-language short story genre at the
age of 16 by writing Bhikarini.He wrote several stories in his 3 volume
book Galpaguccha.
• Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas, among
them Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi.
• Tagore wrote several songs, his songs Amar Sonar Bangla became the
national anthem of Bangladesh and Jana Gana Mana the national
anthem of India.
Amar Sonar Bangla, National
Anthem of Bangladesh, written
in Bengali

Jana Gana Mana, National

Anthem of India, written in
Bengali 
Winner of 1913 Nobel Prize on literature:
• Tagore wrote several poems. Gitanjali
 was Tagore's best known book of
poem  collection for which he was
awarded the Nobel Prize on Literature in
1913,the first non-European awardee.
• On 25 March 2004, Tagore's Nobel Prize
was stolen from the vault of Vishwa
Bharatiya University .On 7 December
2004, the Swedish Academy decided to
present two replicas of Tagore's Nobel
Prize, one made of gold and the other
made of bronze, to the Visva-Bharati
University.    
Final years and demise:
•  Tagore's last five years were marked by
Last picture of Tagore before
his death, circa 1941.
chronic pain and two long periods of
illness. These began when Tagore lost
consciousness in late 1937; he remained
in coma and near death for a time. This
was followed in late 1940 by a similar
spell, from which he never recovered.
Poetry from these years of sickness is
among his finest. A period of prolonged
agony ended with Tagore's death on 7
August 1941, aged 80. He was in an
upstairs room of the Jorasanko mansion
in which he grew up.
Legacy of Rabindranath Tagore:
• Every year, many events pay tribute to Tagore: Kabipranam, his birth
anniversary. Bengali culture is fraught with this legacy: from language
and arts to history and politics. Economist Amartya Sen deemed
Tagore a "towering figure", a "deeply relevant and many-sided
contemporary thinker".
• Tagore was renowned throughout much of Europe America and Asia.
   By way of translations, Tagore influenced Chileans Pablo Neruda and
   Gabriela Mistral, Mexican write Octavio Paz and many others.
• There are eight Tagore museums. Three in India and five in Bangladesh