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GS History Modern India
Q.

Which of the following is not correct about Rabindranath Tagore?

Explanation:
  • Tagore believed in universal brotherhood and humanism - The centre of Tagore's philosophy was man of god. Tagore opposed imperialism and supported Indian nationalists.
  • He urged the masses to avoid victimology and instead seek self-help and education, and he saw the presence of British administration as a "political symptom of our social disease". He maintained that, even for those at the extremes of poverty, "there can be no question of blind revolution"; preferable to it was a "steady and purposeful education". He was educationally a revolutionary and strongly believed that there should be a system of education suited to India. It should be the system in which the cultures of east and the west should unite and where there should be a platform for understanding each other. In the words of G. Ramchandran, Gurudev never accepted that the object of education was simply the accumulation of knowledge.
  • Rabindranath Tagore was not a member of the Indian National Congress, thus he never presided any session. The INC Madras Session of 1898 was presided over by Ananda Mohan Bose.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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