Rabindranath TagoreFRAS (⫽rəˈbɪndrənɑːttæˈɡɔːr⫽ⓘ;
Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a
Bengalipolymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.[1][2][3] He reshaped
Bengali literature and
music as well as
Indian art with
Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali,[4] he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature.[5] His novels, poems, plays and short stories have been made into forty-four films. Moreover, he has been featured as a lyricist and songwriter in more than one hundred films. The following is a list of films made from Tagore's works:
^Stern, Robert W. (2001). Democracy and Dictatorship in South Asia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 6.
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^Henry Newman (1921). The Calcutta Review.
University of Calcutta. p. 252. I have also found that Bombay is India, Satara is India, Bangalore is India, Madras is India, Delhi, Lahore, the Khyber, Lucknow, Calcutta, Cuttack, Shillong, etc., are all India.