Tagore's Gitanjali (Song Offerings) was rst published from Shantiniketan in West
Bengal, India in 1912 in Bengali. It contained 157 songs. Later on the English translation, by
Tagore himself, of the Bengali book with the same name, with an introduction by W.B. Yeats, was
published from India Society, London on 1st Nov 1912. The book contained 103 songs out of
which 53 were taken from the Bengali version. Gitanjali in English earned Tagore The Nobel
Prize in 1913.