Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi , the youngest of thirteen surviving children . At the age of seventeen , he was sent to London for higher education , however , he did not finish his studies there . He started a school at Santiniketan which was based on Upanishadic ideals of education . He also participated in the Indian independence movement . Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 . He was awarded for his collections of poems , '' Gitanjali '' ( Song Offerings ) , which included 103 poems with his own English translations of his Bengali poems . In 1915 , the British Crown granted Tagore a knighthood . He renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre . At the age of 80 , Tagore died on 7 August 1941 in his ancestral home in Calcutta
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Rabindranath Tagore (film)