Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta on 7th May 1861to a distinguished Bengali family. His parents were Maharishi Debendranath and Sharda Devi. Rabindranath began his early schooling at home and was taught in Bengali and English. He did attend some formal school but he rejected it after finding the conventional system of education uncongenial to him. After his upanayan or the sacred thread ceremony he went with his father for a all India tour in the year 1873, which lasted for several months. During this period Rabindranath went through the biographies of many great personalities, and studied history and the modern sciences including astronomy and Sanskrit.
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