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. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

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 ...

. 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 four ...

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 ...

. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Performing Arts and

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under the Faculty of Fine Arts,

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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 Choyon Islam (born 16 November 1961) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to sim ...

, 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 works ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 1977 ...

, Indian dance historian, scholar and critic * John Felix Raj, 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 fami ...

, 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 Congr ...

, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development * Kherwal Soren, Santhali playwright and editor. *

Moniruddin Khan Moniruddin Khan, born August 1974), is a Bengali poet and writer. He was born in the village Chaitpur in the district of Murshidabad, West Bengal. Works Khan's first poem was published at the age of 15. He has published poems and essays in man ...

, writer * Subhaprasanna, Indian painter * Moinul Hassan, Member of the parliament of India * Niranjan Goswami, Indian mime artist and stage director, founder of Indian Mime Theatre, * Soumitra Sekhar Dey, Bengali linguist, educationist *

Neena Prasad Neena Prasad is an Indian dancer. She is an exponent in the field of Mohiniyattam. She is the founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances in Thiruvananthapuram and Sougandika Centre for Mohinyattam in Chennai. Early life and ...

, 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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