Rabindra Bharati University
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Rabindra Bharati University (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal, 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari [1].
The university offers courses in Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
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[edit] History
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.
[edit] Alumni
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, eminent political scientist and author, one of the few emeritus professors of India, fellow of the University of London, former professor of the University of Oxford and London School of Economics, syndicated commentator of Columbia University Project Syndicate, former adviser to the ministries of defence and external affairs, Government of India, author of many books including Leftism In India 1917 - 1947, Nuclear Politics: Towards A Safer World, has taught here for sometime and headed the Department of Political Science as well.
[edit] Tagore museum
- See main article: Jorasanko Thakur Bari
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