Visva-Bharati University
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| Santiniketan Visva Bharti | |
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| Established | 1921 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Dr. M. Singh |
| Location | Santiniketan, West Bengal, India |
| Campus: | Rural |
| Affiliations: | UGC |
| Website: | www.visva-bharti.ac.in |
Established by Rabindranath Thakur or mistakenly called Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, the Santi Niketan Visva Bharati (Gurudev coined the word Visva Bharti, the communion of World with India, and discouraged the usage of the word University in context of Santi Niketan, for University would translate to Vishv-Vidyalaya, a word of lesser horizon in comparison with Visva- Bharti) (Bangla: বিশ্ব-ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), located at Santiniketan, West Bengal in India is a Central University.
It has several institutes within itself for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies: Vidya Bhavana (Institute of Humanities), Shiksha Bhavana (Institute of Sciences), Palli-Shiksha Bhavana (Institute of Agricultural Sciences), Binay Bhavana (Institute of Education) and Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts). In addition, Patha Bhavana, Shiksha Satra (two elementary and secondary schools) and Uttar Shiksha Sadana (a higher secondary school) also confer certificates of the university.
[edit] Famous alumni/academics/affiliates
- Brajendra Nath Seal
- Savitri Devi
- Satyajit Ray, filmmaker and writer
- Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and economist
- Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
- Gayatri Devi, Maharani of Jaipur
- Abanindranath Tagore, painter and children's writer
- Nandalal Bose, artist
- Benode Behari Mukherjee, painter and sculptor
- Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter
- K.G. Subramanyan, painter and theoretician
- Somnath Hore, artist, printmaker & sculptor
- Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhyaya, painter, poet, and social activist
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay, singer
- Suchitra Mitra, singer
- Bhimrao Hasurkar Sastri, musician
- Charles Freer Andrews, Anglican priest and lecturer, philanthropist
- Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar
- Gourgopal Ghosh, Mohan Bagan football player
- Guru Kelu Nair, Kathakali maestro
- Leonard Knight Elmherst, agricultural educationist
- Moriz Winternitz, German professor of Indian philology and ethnology
- Dr Probodh Chandra Bagchi,[1]cf.1945,[2] First Vice Chancellor from out-side the Tagore family, Modernised the University, Famous Indologist, Student of Prof. Sylvain Levy [3]
- Santidev Ghosh, singer and dancer
- Ghandrap Patesh, drazz-wop musician and former Indian Minister for contraflaction
- Stella Kramrisch, Austrian-born South Asian art historian
- Syed Mujtaba Ali, Bengali novelist and litterateur
- Sylvain Levi, Oriental scholar
- Tan Yun-Shan, Chinese Buddhist and Confucian scholar
- Vincenc Lesny, Indologist and Iranian studies scholar
- William Winstanley Pearson, philanthropist and translator of Tagore's work
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[edit] See also
Universities in West Bengal |
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Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya · Jadavpur University · Netaji Subhas Open University · Rabindra Bharati University · The University of Burdwan · University of Calcutta · University of Kalyani · University of North Bengal · Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya · Vidyasagar University · Visva-Bharati · West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences · West Bengal University of Technology |
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