38th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1992-93

Which famous Indian was known as 'Gurudev'?

aRabindranath✓ Correct
bC. Rajagopalachari
cLala Lajpat Rai
dB.R. Ambedkar

Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was born in the city of Calcutta on 7 May 1861. In 1901, he started a school at Santiniketan called the Brahmacharya Ashram. On 23 December 1918, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore laid the foundation of Visva-Bharati. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the English translation of his collection of songs “Gitanjali”, titled “Song Offerings”. He was known as “Gurudev”. ## Page 36

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