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Detailed explanation-1: -Rabindranath Tagore is known fondly by the sobriquet Gurudev. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi. After Rabindranath Tagore gave Gandhi ji the title “Mahatma", Gandhi ji paying tribute to Tagore gave him the title “Gurudev". Tagore was a great guru in ideological sense too as he always advocated for unfettered learning.

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Detailed explanation-4: -Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet.