Rabindranath Tagore won the nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his Gitanjali. When he was awarded the Nobel, the slim volume of Gitanjali was the only major literary work in English that the poet had to his credit. Yet the Nobel committee passed over luminaries like Thomas Hardy to award the prize to Tagore. What did the West find in Tagore? Content Courtesy: Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. High Commission of India, Dhaka.