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Shantiniketan (IPA: [ʃantiniketɔn]) is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore , and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the ...
Visva-Bharati (IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī), (Bengali: [biʃːɔbʱaroti]) is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. 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.
Founded in 1921 by him, Visva Bharati was declared to be a central university in 1951. [4] In 1913, Rabindranath won the Nobel Prize in Literature. [5] He wrote many of his literary classics at Santiniketan. [6]
While Bramhabandhab was in Brahmosamaj, he initiated a boys' school in Sindh in the year 1888. He also taught for some time in Union Academy, [6] which was established 1887 as the "Bengalee Boys High School" founded in Shimla under the chairmanship of Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar. He brought out a monthly journal titled The Twentieth Century in ...
Patha Bhavana is an institution of primary and secondary education in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.Founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1901, [1] starting with only five students, the school is characterized by its philosophy of learning with the heart in closeness to nature without any superficial barriers between teachers and students, as opposed to the strict, repetitive and ...
Cheena Bhavana, (Institute of Chinese Language and Culture) of Visva-Bharati University, founded in 1937, is a centre of Sino-Indian cultural studies located at Santiniketan in West Bengal, India. Its reputation as a center promoting historical study and modern relations between the two countries was built by such figures as Rabindranath Tagore ...
Bharat Mata (1905), by Abanindranath Tagore, a pioneer of the movement and Rabindranath Tagore's nephew.. The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, [1] was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Calcutta and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, during the British Raj in the early 20th century.
Nandalal Bose, who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907. In 1954, he became the first artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.