Rabindra Bharati University
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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.[2] It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari.
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| Type | Public Research University |
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| Established | 8 May 1962 |
Academic affiliations | |
| Chancellor | Governor of West Bengal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury |
Academic staff | 143[1] |
| Students | 7,036[1] |
| Undergraduates | 2,948[1] |
| Postgraduates | 3,446[1] |
| 642[1] | |
| Location | , , India 22°35′04″N 88°21′34″E / 22.5844542°N 88.3593841°ECoordinates: 22°35′04″N 88°21′34″E / 22.5844542°N 88.3593841°E |
| Campus | Urban 22.198 acres (0.08983 km2) |
| Website | Template:Official url |
The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Performing Arts and Visual Arts under the Faculty of Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts.[3]
The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury,[4] a noted social scientist and political commentator.
History
Tagore museum
The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family, located at campus.[5] 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.
Notable alumni
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- Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor and independent filmmaker.
- Basabdatta Chatterjee, Indian Actress
- Ajoy Chakrabarty, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
- Sanjit Chakraborty, Indian Philosopher in the Analytic tradition.
- Choyon Islam, member of the Parliament
- Anirban Bhattacharya, Indian film actor
- Chitresh Das, classical dancer
- Swagatalakshmi Das Bengali musician
- Anup Ghoshal, Indian playback singer and composer
- Sunil Kothari, Indian dance historian, scholar and critic
- John Felix Raj, Vice-Chancellor
- Madhushree, Indian playback singer
- Deepa Dasmunsi, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development
- Kherwal Soren, Santhali playwright and editor.
- 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
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "NIRF 2020" (PDF). Rabindra Bharati University.
- ↑ "About University". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ↑ Prospectus (PDF), Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University, p. 2, retrieved 2 June 2018
- ↑ "The Planning Board". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ↑ "Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012.