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The New York Times
Nov. 14, 1913
Page 4
548 words

Nobel Prize Given toa Hindu Poet
This Year's Literature Award Conferred on Babindranath Tagore of Bengal
Work Lately Translated
Created a Furore in Europe - The Tagore Family one of the Most Distinguished in India

Article begins:
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13. -- The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to-day to the British Indian poet Babindranath Tagore.

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The New York Times
Nov. 23, 1913
Magazine section
4,122 words

THE HINDU POET WHO WON THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE
Entirely Unknown Outside His Own Country, He Is Yet the Accepted Poet of Fifty Million People, and the Bengalis Call This "the Epoch of Rabindranath."

Article begins:
THAT was a most astonishing literary announcement that recently came from Stockholm, in which the world was told that the Nobel prize for literature had been awarded to the Bengall poet, Rabindranath Tagore. Not only had the committee gone far afield seeking out, for the first time in the years that this great honor has been awarded, a man of the Orient, but more than this -- the author it named is practically unknown here in the Occident.

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The New York Times
Nov. 26, 1930
Page 2

TAGORE IN PLEA HERE FOR WORLD CONCORD
Feeble From Illness, Hindu Poet Makes Eager Petition Before 350 at Dinner in His Honor
Decries Struggle for Gain
Hails Us as the 'Great People of the Earth,' but Finds No Happiness in All Western Countries.

Article begins:
Condemning the struggle for success that leads to no finality and to no happiness and pointing out that most of the world suffers from Western civilization and the evils of exploitation it has fostered, Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and ...

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The New York Times
Aug 8, 1941

News article:
Sir Rabindranath, Playwright and Philosopher, Received Nobel Prize in 1913
Article datelined: CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 7

79 words

Editorial
232 words

Editorial: Rabindranath Tagore

 


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