Visva-Bharati,
established on 23 December 1921, is a public research central university and an
Institution of National Importance located in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means
the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college.
Soon after independence, the institution was given the status of a central
university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.
The origins of the institution
date back to 1863 when Debendranath Tagore was given a tract of land by the
zamindar of Raipur, zamindar of Kirnahar and he set up an ashram at the spot
that has now come to be called chatim tala at the heart of the town. The ashram
was initially called Brahmacharya Ashram, which was later renamed Brahmacharya
Vidyalaya. It was established with a view to encouraging people from all walks
of life to come to the spot and meditate. In 1901 his youngest son Rabindranath
Tagore established a co-educational school inside the premises of the ashram.
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