APromoting rural industries
BProviding education and healthcare
CEmpowering rural women
DAll of the above
Answer:
D. All of the above
Read Explanation:
Rural reconstruction work that Rabindranath considered as his 'life's work continued in three main phases :-
The first one during his work as a zaminder in his family estate in East Bengal, the second one during the 'Swadeshi Movement in 1903-08 and the third one at Sriniketan during 1920s.
His principle of 'life in its completeness' found a practical expression in his active works on rural reconstruction that are still relevant to the present challenges in the world.
Rabindranath was engaged in his Zamindari work in his family estates at Silaidaha and Patisar during 1890s and his field work in rural reconstruction began here where he gained first-hand experience about real conditions of the poor people of rural Bengal.
As a recollection of this phase, he said in an address to the workers of Sriniketan in 1939, "gradually the sorrow and poverty of the villagers became clear to me, and I began to grow restless to do something about it.
From that time onward I continuously endeavored to find out how villagers' mind could be aroused, so that they themselves could accept responsibility for their own lives