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Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861, into one of the foremost families of Bengal. He was the fourteenth child of Debendranath Tagore, who headed the Brahmo Samaj. The family house at Jorasanko in Calcutta was a hive of cultural and intellectual activity. Tagore was educated by private tutors and he first visited Europe in 1878. He started writing at an early age, and his talent was recognised by Bankimchandra Chatterjee, the leading writer of the day. In the 1890s Tagore lived mainly in rural East Bengal, managing family estates. In the early 1900s he was involved in the Swadeshi campaign against the British but he withdrew from it when the movement turned violent. In 1912 he came to England with Gitanjali, an English translation of some of his religious lyrics. It was acclaimed by W.B Yeats and later published by Macmillan, leading directly to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

43. Why did Rabindranath Tagore withdraw from the Swadeshi movement?

(a) Because it had turned violent. (b) Because it hampered his writing activities. (c) Because he was not a military man. (d) Because he wanted to set up a university.

44. Arrange the following events from Rabindranath Tagore's life chronologically.

(i) Nobel Prize (ii) Birth (iii) Came to England (iv) First visited Europe

(a) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i) (c) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv) (b) (iv), (iii), (ii), (i) (d) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)

45. Who was Rabindranath Tagore's contemporary writer in Bengal?

(a) Bankimchandra Chatterjee (b) Debendranath Tagore (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) William Butler Yeats