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	\| name = Rabindra Bharati University		\| name = Rabindra Bharati University
	\| image = Rabindra~~-Bharati_University_Logo~~.~~png~~		\| image = Rabindra Bharati University Logo.svg
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	\| established = {{Start date and age\|df=yes\|paren=yes\|8 ~~May 1962~~}}		\| established = {{Start date and age\|df=yes\|paren=yes\|br=yes\|1962\|5\|8}}
	\| type = [[Public university\|Public]] [[Research ~~university~~]]		\| type = [[Public university\|Public]] [[Research University]]
	\| chancellor = ~~{{WB governor}} {{small\|(~~[[Governor of West Bengal]]~~)}}~~		\| chancellor = [[Governor of West Bengal]]
	\| vice_chancellor = Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury		\| vice_chancellor = Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
	\| academic_staff = 143<ref name=nirf_stud/>		\| academic_staff = 143<ref name=nirf_stud/>
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	\| city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]		\| city = [[Kolkata]]
	\| country = [[India]]		\| state = [[West Bengal]]
			\| country = India
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	'''Rabindra Bharati University''' is a public research [[university]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of [[West Bengal]] in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/home/post/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3 \|title=About University \| website=Rabindra Bharati University \|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> It is located at the [[Tagore family]] home, [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].		'''Rabindra Bharati University''' is a public research [[university]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of [[West Bengal]] in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/home/post/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3 \|title=About University \| website=Rabindra Bharati University \|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> It is located at the [[Tagore family]] home, [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].
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	==History==		==History==
	[[Image:Jorasanko Thakur Bari.jpg\|thumb\|right\|200px\|Jorasanko Thakur Bari]]		[[Image:Jorasanko Thakur Bari.jpg\|thumb\|right\|200px\|Jorasanko Thakur Bari]]
	[[Image:Rabindra bharati.jpg\|thumb\|200px\| ~~entrance~~ of the administrative building]]		[[Image:Rabindra bharati.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|Entrance of the administrative building]]
	~~At the university's founding in 1962, it occupied the former home of Rabindranath Tagore. While two of the three faculties of the University, those of~~ [[~~Fine Arts]] and [[Visual Arts]], are still located there, when the Faculty~~ of ~~Arts was founded in 1976, it was located on a new~~ campus ~~at 56A, B~~. ~~T. Road, Kolkata-50. The new~~ campus ~~was on the grounds of the "Emerald Bower," a mansion built by [[Harakumar Tagore]], the poet's uncle. The mansion and its parklands, later acquired by the Government of [[West Bengal~~]]~~, became a complex of academic institutions among which this University has the central and larger share. The main administrative office is also situated at the Emerald Bower Campus.~~		[[File:Inside view of Rabindra Bharati University campus.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|University campus]]

	~~The university was reconstituted in 1981 by the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981.~~

	===Tagore museum===		===Tagore museum===
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	The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the [[Tagore family]], located at campus.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)\|url=http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423164030/http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html\|archive-date=23 April 2012\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.		The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the [[Tagore family]], located at campus.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)\|url=http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423164030/http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html\|archive-date=23 April 2012\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.

	==~~Courses offered~~==		==Notable alumni==
	~~[[Academic certificate~~\|~~Certificate]] courses, [[Diploma]] courses, [[Undergraduate]] Degree Courses, [[Postgraduate]] Degree Courses, [[Research]]/[[Doctoral]]-Level Courses and Distance Courses.~~		{{alumni\|date=February 2018}}

	~~Some of the other services which are provided by the University are the access to the~~ [[~~database~~]], ~~photocopying services~~, ~~information and reference service~~, ~~inter-library loan and display of the new arrivals at the central library~~.		*[[Tathagata Mukherjee]], Indian actor and independent filmmaker.
	~~The university now also provides a post~~-~~graduate degree for external students~~ in ~~its new Salt Lake Campus. Annual Convocation is held on 25th of Baisakh, on~~ the ~~birthday of Rabindranath Tagore on Jorasanko campus~~.		*[[Basabdatta Chatterjee]], Indian Actress
			*[[Ajoy Chakrabarty]], Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
			* [https://philpeople.org/profiles/sanjit-chakraborty Sanjit Chakraborty], Indian Philosopher in the Analytic tradition.

	~~==Notable alumni==~~		*[[Choyon Islam]], member of the Parliament
	~~{{alumni\|date=February 2018}}~~		*[[Anirban Bhattacharya]], Indian film actor
	*[[~~Tathagata Mukherjee~~]]		*[[Chitresh Das]], classical dancer
	*[[~~Ajoy Chakrabarty~~]]		*[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta\|Swagatalakshmi Das]] Bengali musician
	*[[Chitresh Das]]		*[[Anup Ghoshal]], Indian playback singer and composer
	*[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta\|Swagatalakshmi Das]]		*[[Sunil Kothari]], Indian dance historian, scholar and critic
	*[[Anup Ghoshal]]		*[[John Felix Raj]], Vice-Chancellor
	*[[Sunil Kothari]]		*[[Madhushree]], Indian playback singer
	*[[John Felix Raj]]		*[[Deepa Dasmunsi]], the Union Minister of State for Urban Development
	*[[Madhushree]]		*[[Kherwal Soren]], Santhali playwright and editor.
	*[[Deepa Dasmunsi]]		*[[Moniruddin Khan]], writer
			*[[Subhaprasanna]], Indian painter
			*[[Moinul Hassan]], Member of the parliament of India
			*[[Niranjan Goswami]], Indian mime artist and stage director, founder of Indian Mime Theatre,
			*[[Soumitra Sekhar Dey]], Bengali linguist, educationist
			*[[Neena Prasad]], Indian dancer, founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances

	==See also==		==See also==

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| vice_chancellor = Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
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| students = 7,036<ref name=nirf_stud>{{cite web |title=NIRF 2020 |url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/upload/15740250225e13116cdff3d.pdf |publisher=Rabindra Bharati University}}</ref>
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| country = [[India]]
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'''Rabindra Bharati University''' is a public research [[university]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of [[West Bengal]] in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/home/post/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3 |title=About University | website=Rabindra Bharati University |access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> It is located at the [[Tagore family]] home, [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].

The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in [[Performing arts|Performing Arts]] and [[Visual Arts]] under the Faculty of Fine Arts, [[Humanities]], [[Social Sciences]] and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts.<ref>{{Citation |title=Prospectus |publisher=Rabindra Bharati University
|publication-place=Kolkata |page=2 |url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/upload/2124663259590050a863287.pdf |access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref>

The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/home/post/eddea82ad2755b24c4e168c5fc2ebd40 |title=The Planning Board | website=Rabindra Bharati University |access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> a noted social scientist and political commentator.

==History==
[[Image:Jorasanko Thakur Bari.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Jorasanko Thakur Bari]]
[[Image:Rabindra bharati.jpg|thumb|200px| entrance of the administrative building]]
At the university's founding in 1962, it occupied the former home of Rabindranath Tagore. While two of the three faculties of the University, those of [[Fine Arts]] and [[Visual Arts]], are still located there, when the Faculty of Arts was founded in 1976, it was located on a new campus at 56A, B. T. Road, Kolkata-50. The new campus was on the grounds of the "Emerald Bower," a mansion built by [[Harakumar Tagore]], the poet's uncle. The mansion and its parklands, later acquired by the Government of [[West Bengal]], became a complex of academic institutions among which this University has the central and larger share. The main administrative office is also situated at the Emerald Bower Campus.

The university was reconstituted in 1981 by the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981.

===Tagore museum===
{{main|Jorasanko Thakur Bari}}
The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the [[Tagore family]], located at campus.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)|url=http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423164030/http://kolkata.clickindia.com/tourism/rabindrabhartimuseum.html|archive-date=23 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.

==Courses offered==
[[Academic certificate|Certificate]] courses, [[Diploma]] courses, [[Undergraduate]] Degree Courses, [[Postgraduate]] Degree Courses, [[Research]]/[[Doctoral]]-Level Courses and Distance Courses.

Some of the other services which are provided by the University are the access to the [[database]], photocopying services, information and reference service, inter-library loan and display of the new arrivals at the central library.
The university now also provides a post-graduate degree for external students in its new Salt Lake Campus. Annual Convocation is held on 25th of Baisakh, on the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore on Jorasanko campus.

==Notable alumni==
{{alumni|date=February 2018}}
*[[Tathagata Mukherjee]]
*[[Ajoy Chakrabarty]]
*[[Chitresh Das]]
*[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta|Swagatalakshmi Das]]
*[[Anup Ghoshal]]
*[[Sunil Kothari]]
*[[John Felix Raj]]
*[[Madhushree]]
*[[Deepa Dasmunsi]]

==See also==
* [[Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University]]
*[[List of universities in India#West Bengal|List of universities in India]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.rbu.ac.in/ Rabindra Bharati University Website]

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