"In 1875 a prominent Calcutta journal published a suite of poems by a "newly discovered" seventeenth-century Bengali poet, Bhanusimha. The poems were celebrated, yet, several years later, critics realized that they had been drawn in by an embarrassing deception: the poet did not exist and, perhaps worse, the true author was a precocious fourteen-year-old boy, Rabindranath Tagore." "These poems, which Tagore continually revised over the next sixty-five...

Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore traces the development of the idea of God from its primitive notions to the present day.