Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861, the youngest son of the influential spiritual leader Debendranath Tagore. The elder Tagore was instrumental in the Brahmo Samaj reformist movement, which was a monotheistic interpretation of Hinduism based the Upanishads of the Vedic texts and a community form of worship that eschewed the typical class delineations of the traditional Indian caste system. Rabindranath was raised in this religious tradition and it is clearly reflected in his...