Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in a wealthy and prominent Bramho family. Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators protesting colonial laws. Tagore's reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication of GITANJALI: SONG OFFERINGS.