Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a playwright, poet, writer, composer, lyricist, philosopher, painter, educationist, and social reformer. He joined the Swadeshi Movement against the British in the 1900s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1913 for his poetry collection Geetanjali—the first Asian
(and Indian) to be awarded the prize—and used his earnings to partly fund his school and university, Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan. He is considered the greatest writer
ever in the Bengali language, and, arguably, in India.