Question

Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize (1913) for his outstanding performance as a social reformer.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

Rabindranath Tagore who was born on May 7, 1861, was also known as Gurudev. He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his best-known collection of poetry titled Gitanjali. He was the first non-european to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Later, he was awarded a knighthood by King George V but he renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.