Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, and also started an experimental school at Santiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. He received a Nobel Prize in English Literature for 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems translated from Bengali into English by him.