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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: W. Somerset Maugham, Toma Garrigue Masaryk, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Rabindranath Tagore, India House, Ubaidullah Sindhi, Bagha Jatin, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Franz von Papen, Bhavabhushan Mitra, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Komagata Maru incident, Manabendra Nath Roy, Clan na Gael, Maulavi Barkatullah, Bhupendra Kumar Datta, Amarendranath Chatterjee, Anushilan Samiti, Tarak Nath Das, 1915 Singapore Mutiny, Arthur Zimmermann, Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Atulkrishna Ghosh, Balasore, Black Tom explosion, Jugantar, Provisional Government of India, Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Guran Ditt Kumar, Maulana Mehmud Hasan, Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial, Agnes Smedley, Mahendra Pratap, John Devoy, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Ghadar Party, Guy Gaunt, Chempakaraman Pillai, Vernon Kell, Rash Behari Bose, Bhai Parmanand, Jadugopal Mukherjee, SS Maverick, Seistan Force, Charles Tegart, Max von Oppenheim, Joseph McGarrity, Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet, George Rodiek, Emanuel Viktor Voska, Bipin Behari Ganguli. Excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse," he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric persona, floccose locks, and empyreal garb garnered him a prophet-like aura in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At age sixteen, he cheekily released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bh nusi ha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by...
