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Rabindranath Tagore as reformer.(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050201
Author:Ninian, Alex

Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography. Uma Das Gupta. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]10.99. xii + 105 pages. ISBN 0-19-566980-0.

From this distance in time the eighty years of Rabindranath Tagore's life (1861-1941) are principally known for his work as a polymathic arts figure. He was not only a writer of novels, essays, and articles, a philosopher, a world-renowned poet and Nobel Prize winner. He also wrote songs and sang them; he wrote plays and acted in them; he wrote dance-dramas and danced in them. But, as they say, every schoolboy knows that.

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