His poems of this period are dark and foreboding both in form and content. Tagore, in a restless frame of mind, then traveled to the regions of Allahabad and Buddha-Gaya. The Great War, which later was named the World War I, eventually struck the globe on 28 July 1914 and spread.ġ.2. Sadly, Tagore’s premonition of a major disaster came true with the declaration of war in Europe, triggered by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914. In the months thereafter, Tagore was rather pensive with apprehensions about the worsening political instability in Europe. Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize – Diploma and Medal – from Lord Carmichael, the Governor of Bengal, on 9 January 1914, in presence of distinguished guests gathered at Governor’s House, Calcutta. Tagore’s other novel Ghare Baire – Home and Abroad – (1916) – published soon after Chaturanga, in contrast, gained immense popularity.ġ.1. Chaturanga is virtually unknown outside of Bengal and the English-language readership, although it appeared in the immediate years following his most celebrated Geetanjali and his Nobel Prize. Of Tagore’s eight novels and four novellas, Chaturanga is perhaps among the least acknowledged and least translated.
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