Rabindra Bharati University

Rabindra Bharati University
রবীন্দ্র ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Seal of the Rabindra Bharati University
Type	Education and Research
Established	1961
Location	Kolkata, India
Affiliations	UGC
Website	www.rbu.ac.in

Rabindra Bharati University is a 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. 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.

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

Main article: Jorasanko Thakur Bari

The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family, located at campus.^[1] 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 and Research/Doctoral-Level 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.

Notable alumni

2011 staff member death incident

In July 2011, a non-teaching staff member died after he was allegedly punched up by students, after instructing them to move inconveniently parked motorcycles. An assistant professor allegedly waved a revolver and threatened to shoot employees who protested the death. Five students and the assistant professor were arrested.^[2] In a later press conference, students claimed the death was accidental.^[3]

References

↑ "Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari),".
↑ "Kolkata: Non-teaching staff member dies after being punched by students". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
↑ "Death on campus accidental, claim RBU students". indiatimes.com. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.

External links

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Rabindra Bharati University Website

Universities in West Bengal

State universities	Aliah University Bankura University University of Burdwan Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University University of Calcutta Diamond Harbour Women's University University of Gour Banga Jadavpur University University of Kalyani Kazi Nazrul University Netaji Subhas Open University University of North Bengal Presidency University Rabindra Bharati University Raiganj University Sidho Kanho Birsha University Vidyasagar University West Bengal State University

State specialised universities	Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Senate of Serampore College (University) Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences West Bengal University of Health Sciences West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology West Bengal University of Teachers' Training, Education Planning and Administration

Central universities and institutes of higher importance	Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Indian Statistical Institute National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Visva-Bharati University

Deemed universities	Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

Private universities	Adamas University Amity University Kolkata Brainware University JIS University Neotia University Seacom Skills University University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata Techno India University

Coordinates: 22°35′06″N 88°21′33″E / 22.58500°N 88.35917°E / 22.58500; 88.35917

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