Rabindra Bharati University is a public research

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

. It is located at the

Tagore family The Tagore family (also spelled as ''Thakur''), with over three hundred years of history,Deb, Chitra, pp 64–65. has been one of the leading families of Calcutta, India, and is regarded as one of the key influencers during the Bengali Renaissa ...

home,

Jorasanko Thakur Bari Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: ''House of the Thakurs''; anglicised to ''Tagore'') in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of t ...

. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in

Performing Arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...

and

Visual Arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

under the Faculty of Fine Arts,

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

Social Sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts. The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, a noted social scientist and political commentator.

History

Inside view of Rabindra Bharati University campus

Tagore museum

The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the

. The first non-European Nobel laureate

was born here.

Notable alumni

Tathagata Mukherjee Tathagata Mukherjee (born 15 May 1985) is a Kolkata-based Indian actor and independent filmmaker. He is best known for his acting in several Bengali soap operas. Early life Tathagata Mukherjee was born on May 15th, 1985, in Kolkata, India. Du ...

, Indian actor and independent filmmaker. *

Basabdatta Chatterjee Basabdatta Chatterjee is a Bengali actress who mainly works in Bengali television serials. She made her debut in the popular soap ''Gaaner Oparey'' directed by Rituparno Ghosh. She rose to fame by acting in the lead female role in the comedy soa ...

, Indian Actress *

Ajoy Chakrabarty Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 25 December 1952) is an Hindustani classical vocalist, composer, lyricist and an exponent of the Patiala-Kasur gharana. He was given Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian award in India in 2020. Early li ...

, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
Sanjit Chakraborty
Indian Philosopher in the Analytic tradition. * Choyon Islam, member of the Parliament *

Anirban Bhattacharya Anirban Bhattacharya (born 7 October 1986) is an Indian actor, theatre actor, singer and director. His first successful theatre production was ''Debi Sarpamasta'', written by Manoj Mitra, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. His other notable work ...

, Indian film actor *

Chitresh Das Chitresh Das (Devanagari: ) (9 November 1944 – 4 January 2015) was a classical dancer of the North Indian style of Kathak. Born in Calcutta, Das was a performer, choreographer, composer and educator. He was instrumental in bringing Kathak to ...

, classical dancer * Swagatalakshmi Das Bengali musician *

Anup Ghoshal Anup Ghoshal is an Indian playback singer, composer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali language films. He is known in his native Bengal primarily as one of the foremost Nazrulgeeti exponents, and was one of th ...

, Indian playback singer and composer *

Sunil Kothari Sunil Kothari (20 December 1933 – 27 December 2020) was a noted Indian dance historian, scholar and critic. He was also former Uday Shankar Professor at Ravindra Bharti University, Kolkata. Career He completed M. A. in 1964 and PhD in 197 ...

, Indian dance historian, scholar and critic *

John Felix Raj John Felix Raj is the Founder Vice-Chancellor and a professor of economics at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata (SXUK), India. He is a Jesuit priest of the Calcutta province of the Society of Jesus. He was the Rector from 1996 to 2002 and Prin ...

, Vice-Chancellor *

Madhushree Madhushree (born Sujata Bhattacharya, 2 November 1969) is an Indian playback singer who sings in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Telugu films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions, Madhushree hails from a musically inclined family ...

, Indian playback singer *

Deepa Dasmunsi Deepa Dasmunsi is an Indian politician. She served as the member of parliament for Raiganj in the 15th Lok Sabha. She was the Minister of State for Urban Development from October 2012 until May 2014. She was the wife of Indian National Congress ...

, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development *

Kherwal Soren Kherwal Soren (born 9 December 1957) or Kalipada Soren is a Santhali playwright, author and editor. Career Kherwal Soren, born as Kalipada Soren in 1957 at Raghunathpur near Jhargram in West Bengal, graduated from Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya and ...

, Santhali playwright and editor. * Moniruddin Khan, writer * Subhaprasanna, Indian painter *

Moinul Hassan Moinul Hassan is a politician from All India Trinamool Congress and was a member of CPIM State Committee. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament Th ...

, Member of the parliament of India * Niranjan Goswami, Indian mime artist and stage director, founder of Indian Mime Theatre, *

Soumitra Sekhar Dey Soumitra Sekhar Dey ( bn, সৌমিত্র শেখর দে); is a leading Bengali linguist, educationist, and writer from Bangladesh. Currently he is serving as the 6th vice chancellor of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University. Early ...

, Bengali linguist, educationist * Neena Prasad, Indian dancer, founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances/ * Kaberi Bhaumik, Singer, President of Stuti Art & Entertainment

References

External links

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History

Tagore museum

Notable alumni

See also

References

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