GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was knighted by the British two years later, but he later gave it up in protest about the British policies in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tagore was the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and second non-European to receive a Nobel Prize after Theodore Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1913, | The University of Tokyo INDIA OFFICE.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gitanjali. Q. Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize (1913) for his outstanding performance as a social reformer.