Skip to main content

Primary sourceDocument

Signature of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore's personal handwritten signature, combining flowing script with flourished strokes.

This is Tagore's own handwritten signature, used to authenticate his letters and papers.

Ask Rabindranath Tagore about this sourceView the original(opens in new tab)
A black ink line drawing of a cursive handwritten signature on a white background, with large looping strokes, a flourished underline, and small dots below the letters.
Signature of Rabindranath Tagore.

About this source

What it is

This is an image of the autograph signature of Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and philosopher.

Why it matters

A signature is a simple but personal trace of someone's identity. Tagore's signature appears on his letters, manuscripts and official documents, helping historians confirm which papers are genuinely his.

Look closer

  • What does the style of the signature (large loops, flourishes) suggest about the person who wrote it?
  • Why do historians use signatures to check whether a document is authentic?
  • How might a signature change over a person's lifetime?

This document is part of the curated material that grounds the AI version of Rabindranath Tagore on Humy.ai — when students ask about related events, the AI can quote it and cite it.

More Rabindranath Tagore sources

Meet the AI Rabindranath Tagore →
Title page of the book Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore, a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali, with an introduction by W. B. Yeats, published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1913.Book

Primary source

Song Offerings

Rabindranath Tagore · 1912

Black and white photograph of Rabindranath Tagore leaving a building, Sigtuna, May 1921.Photograph

Primary source

Tagore Leaves the Sigtuna Foundation

Bertil Waldén · May 1921

Title page of Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore, a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali, with an introduction by W. B. Yeats. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913.Book

Primary source

Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore · 1910

Black and white photograph of Rabindranath Tagore standing with K.B. Westman and M. Björkqvist, Sigtuna, May 1921.Photograph

Primary source

Tagore with K.B. Westman and M. Björkqvist

Bertil Waldén · May 1921

Piano sheet music score titled 'Jana Gana Mana' by Rabindranath Tagore, in D minor/F major key with 4/4 time, tempo 96, two staves (treble clef) with dynamics like f, p, ff and a fermata at the end.Document

Primary source

Jana Gana Mana

Rabindranath Tagore · 11 December 1911

Ready when you are

Start chatting with Rabindranath Tagore now.

20 messages free · No credit card · Available in 50+ languages.

Trial Humy for freeGet a quote for institutions