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About Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a cultural town in West Bengal, near Bolpur, which is 180 km from Kolkata. This small cultural town was a vision of the famous Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. The Vishwa Bharati University or ‘the University......Read more on Santiniketan
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Visva Bharati University
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Ranked 1 of 15Places to Visit in Santiniketan
- Type: Heritage
The Visva
Bharati University
at Shantiniketan is world famous and is acknowledged as one of the greatest
temples of learning in Fine art and Literature in India. Founded by Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore in 1901, the university has always defined the standards of
literary excellence and its...
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Sriniketan
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Ranked 2 of 15Places to Visit in Santiniketan
- Type: Heritage
In 1992, Sriniketan, a centre for rural reconstruction was established in Santiniketan. Sriniketan also has a department devoted to the studies of the socio-economic problems of India. This centre focuses on education related to agriculture, handicrafts, cottage industries, welfare of villages...
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Vidya Bhavan
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Ranked 3 of 15Places to Visit in Santiniketan
- Type: Heritage
In 1925, Rabindranath Tagore founded Vidya Bhavan, which is the study centre for the social sciences and humanities. It is situated in Santiniketan’s Viswa Bharati University complex. Here regular graduate and undergraduate courses are offered.
For international students of this...
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Kala Bhavana
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Ranked 4 of 15Places to Visit in Santiniketan
- Type: Heritage
In 1919, Rabindranath Tagore established Kala Bhavan, the centre for study and research in visual arts in India, in the complex of Viswa Bharati University. The subjects offered here include history of art, painting, sculpture, graphics and artistic design on which graduate and diploma courses...
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Rabindra Bhavan
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Ranked 5 of 15Places to Visit in Santiniketan
- Type: Heritage
Rabindra Bhavan was established in Santiniketan in 1942, which stands on the shores of the River Kopai in West Bengal’s Birbhum District. Santiniketan houses the international university of Viswa Bharati, the foundation of which was laid by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore as a platform where...
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