Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, and the British Raj

Rabindranath Tagore is the most famous composer of Bengali lyrics and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. This book includes the full text of his prize-winning book, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), in its English version along with an introduction by W.B. Yeats that was published in London in 1912.Up until Gitanjali, Tagore was not popular in Bengaland his name was not even mentioned in The Hi...