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Q: Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature for which book?
  • A. Gora
  • B. Gitanjali
  • C. Gitabitan
  • D. Sanchayita
Correct Answer: Option B - Renowned poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection 'Gitanjali' published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. The original version of the Gitanjali was published on 14 August 1910 in Bengali language by Indian Publishing House Calcutta. The English version of Gitanjali was first published in November 1912 by the Indian Society of London. In 1915 Tagore was awarded a knighthood for services to literature, which he returned in protest against the 1919 Jalliyanwala bagh massacre.
B. Renowned poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection 'Gitanjali' published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. The original version of the Gitanjali was published on 14 August 1910 in Bengali language by Indian Publishing House Calcutta. The English version of Gitanjali was first published in November 1912 by the Indian Society of London. In 1915 Tagore was awarded a knighthood for services to literature, which he returned in protest against the 1919 Jalliyanwala bagh massacre.

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Renowned poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection 'Gitanjali' published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. The original version of the Gitanjali was published on 14 August 1910 in Bengali language by Indian Publishing House Calcutta. The English version of Gitanjali was first published in November 1912 by the Indian Society of London. In 1915 Tagore was awarded a knighthood for services to literature, which he returned in protest against the 1919 Jalliyanwala bagh massacre.