Rabindra Bharati University

Rabindra Bharati University
Type	Public Research university
Established	8 May 1962 (59 years ago)
Academic affiliations	UGC; NAAC; AIU
Chancellor	Jagdeep Dhankhar (Governor of West Bengal)
Vice-Chancellor	Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Academic staff	143
Students	7,036
Undergraduates	2,948
Postgraduates	3,446
Doctoral students	642
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, 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
Website	www.rbu.ac.in

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.

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[]

Jorasanko Thakur Bari

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[]

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.

Courses offered[]

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[]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "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.

External links[]

Rabindra Bharati University Website

[nirf_stud-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "NIRF 2020" (PDF). Rabindra Bharati University.

[2] "About University". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[3] Prospectus (PDF), Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University, p. 2, retrieved 2 June 2018

[4] "The Planning Board". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[5] "Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012.

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