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Gandhiji gave him this title - 'Gurudev.

Rabindranath Tagore, also written Ravindranatha Thakura (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) , sobriquet Gurudev, was an Indian polymath, who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".