Historical Figure
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian polymath (1861–1941)
About Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Genocide1919 CE – 1919 CE
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
On April 13, 1919 (Baisakhi Day), British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to fire without warning into a crowd of thousands of unarmed civilians gathered in an enclosed garden in Amritsar, Punjab. The official Hunter Commission recorded 379 dead and over 1,200 wounded; Indian estimates place the death toll considerably higher.
Partition1905 CE – 1911 CE
Bengal Partition of 1905
Viceroy Curzon partitioned Bengal along religious lines — creating a Muslim-majority East Bengal and Hindu-majority West Bengal — claiming administrative necessity. The massive backlash and Swadeshi movement forced its reversal in 1911, but the idea of religious partition had been seeded.