Named in memory of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer. Opposed to the Indian caste system, he created a school (Viśva-Bharati) in Santiniketan, and it became a state university in 1951. Tagore tried to unite the positive elements of European and Eastern philosophy. He received the 1913 Nobel Prize in literature for his lyric work Gitanjali.