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INDIA - EDUCATION
- VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY |
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Date-wise Events |
- December 22, 1918: The
foundation stone for the university was laid on this day.
- December 23, 1921:
Rabindranath Tagore formally started the college with
proceeds from the prize money of the Nobel Prize he received
in 1913 for the publication of his book of poems Gitanjali.
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Description |
- Visva-Bharati University is one of India's major Central
Govt. funded autonomous university located in Santiniketan,
West Bengal.
- It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it
Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with
India.
- Until independence it was a college. Soon after
independence, in 1951, the institution was given the status
of a university and was renamed Visva Bharati University.
- It grew to become one of India's most renowned places of
higher learning, with a list of alumni that includes
Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, globally renowned
filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the country's leading art
historian, R. Siva Kumar, to name just a few.
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