Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata. He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. His father was a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the …
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