VISVA-BHARATI UNIVERSITY

Established by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, the 'Visva-Bharati' University (Bangla: বিশ্ব-ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), located at Santiniketan, West Bengal in India is a Central University.
It has several institutes within itself for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies: 'Vidya Bhavana' (Institute of Humanities), 'Shiksha Bhavana' (Institute of Sciences), 'Palli-Shiksha Bhavana' (Institute of Agricultural Sciences), 'Binay Bhavana' (Institute of Education) and 'Kala Bhavana' (Institute of Fine Arts). In addition, 'Patha Bhavana', 'Shiksha Satra' (two elementary and secondary schools) and 'Uttar Shiksha Sadana' (a higher secondary school) also confer certificates of the university.

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Famous alumni/academics/affiliates

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Famous alumni/academics/affiliates

★ Brajendra Nath Seal

★ Benodebihari Mukhopadhyaya, painter and sculptor

★ Savitri Devi Mukherji

★ Satyajit Ray, veteran film director and writer

★ Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and economist

★ Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India

★ Gayatri Devi, Maharani of Jaipur

★ Ramkinkar Baiz, sculptor and painter

★ Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhyaya, painter, poet, and social activist

★ Kanika Bandyopadhyay, singer

★ Suchitra Mitra, singer

★ Abanindranath Tagore, painter

★ Bhimrao Hasurkar Sastri, musician

★ Charles Freer Andrews, Anglican priest and lecturer, philanthropist

★ Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar

★ Gourgopal Ghosh, Mohan Bagan football player

★ Leonard Knight Elmherst, agricultural educationist

★ Moriz Winternitz, German professor of Indian philology and ethnology

★ Nandalal Bose, painter

★ Dr Probodh Chandra Bagchi,[1]cf.1945,[2] First Vice Chancellor from out-side the Tagore family, Modernised the University, Famous Indologist, Student of Prof. Sylvain Levy [3]

★ Santidev Ghosh, singer and dancer

★ Ghandrap Patesh, drazz-wop musician and former Indian Minister for contraflaction

★ Stella Kramrisch, Austrian-born South Asian art historian

★ Syed Mujtaba Ali, Bengali novelist and litterateur

★ Sylvain Levi, Oriental scholar

★ Tan Yun-Shan, Chinese Buddhist and Confucian scholar

★ Vincenc Lesny, Indologist and Iranian studies scholar

★ William Winstanley Pearson, philanthropist and translator of Tagore's work

★ Arnob, Indie musician

External link

★ Official website