Shantiniketan built by rabindranath tagore biography
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Shantiniketan
UNESCO heritage site in West Bengal, India
For the University in Shantiniketan, see Visva-Bharati University.
Neighbourhood in Birbhum, West Bengal, India
Shantiniketan (IPA: [ʃantiniketɔn]) is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the creation of Visva-Bharati.[1] It is also the birthplace of Amartya Sen, an Economist, Philosopher, & Nobel Laureate
It was inscribed on the UNESCOWorld Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee in 2023.[2]
History
[edit]In 1863, Debendranath Tagore took on permanent lease 20 acres (81,000 m2) of land, with two chhatim (Alstonia scholaris) trees, at an annual payment of Rs. 5, from Bhuban Mohan Sinha, the talukdar in Raipur, Birbh
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Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The inclusion of Shantiniketan on the UNESCO World Heritage List was announced during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which took place until September 25.
This recognition makes Shantiniketan the 41st UNESCO World Heritage Site in India and the third in West Bengal, joining the ranks of the Sundarbans and the Darjeeling Mountain Railways.
In the previous year, West Bengal's Durga Puja secured a place on the Intangible Cultural Heritag
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Santiniketan
Brief synthesis
Established in rural West Bengal in 1901 bygd the renowned poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and on a vision of the unity of humanity transcending religious and cultural boundaries. Santiniketan is an embodiment of Rabindranath Tagore’s vision and philosophy of where ‘the world would form a single nest’ using a combination of education, appreciation of natur, music and the arts. It represents the distillation of Rabindranath Tagore’s greatest works and the continuing legacy of his model of education that reinterpreted ancient Vedic traditions with open air classrooms arranged under the canopies of trees.
Santiniketan exhibits the crystallisation of the ideas of Rabindranath Tagore and the pioneers of the Bengal School of Art. Set within the historical and geocultural context of early 20th-century colonial India, the ideas embodied in Santiniketan infl