Tagore

7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941

Tagore was an influential Indian poet who fought for Indian independence

His views differed greatly from Gandhi's yet they maintained a friendship and mutual respect.

He feared that Gandhi's methods of peaceful non-cooperation would lead to violence because his was not an uplifting movement but a negative one.

Tagore argued for a practical solution in the fight for independence. He believed in the economics of poverty.

Opposing Gandhi, he encouraged students to stay in schools so that they would become educated.

He believed moral protest was useless because it did not solve any current problems. For example, burning Western clothes would only leave poor Indian people unclothed and serve to isolate the Indian independence movement from other Western countries.