{"id":14811,"date":"2023-09-18T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14811"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:36:10","slug":"santiniketan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/santiniketan\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiniketan added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Santiniketan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the\u00a0<strong>state of West Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was established in 1901 by\u00a0<strong>Rabindranath Tagore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was a residential\u00a0<strong>school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In 1921, a \u2018world university\u2019 was established at Santiniketan, later recognised as\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Visva Bharati&#8217;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan is Bengal\u2019s only central university whose chancellor is the Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0distinct from the prevailing British colonial architectural orientations of the early 20th century and of European modernism.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>represents approaches toward pan-Asian modernity, drawing on ancient, medieval and folk<\/strong> traditions from across the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about UNESCO World Heritage<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A World Heritage Site (WHS) is a\u00a0<strong>landmark or area with legal protection<\/strong> by an international convention administered by the UNESCO under\u00a0<strong>the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Categorisation of Sites \u2013 The sites are categorised in three types:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cultural heritage sites<\/strong> \u2013 It includes historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites, and works of monumental sculpture or painting<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural heritage sites<\/strong> \u2013 It includes those natural areas that have excellent ecological and evolutionary processes, endangered species etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mixed heritage sites<\/strong> \u2013 It contains elements of both natural and cultural significance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India has\u00a0<strong>41 world heritage sites<\/strong>, including 33 cultural properties, 7 natural properties and 1 mixed site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Heritage?<\/h3>\n<p>Heritage refers to the cultural, historical, and natural assets that are passed down from one generation to the next. It encompasses a wide range of tangible and intangible elements that are significant to a particular group of people, community, or society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/tagores-home-santiniketan-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list-8944134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tagore\u2019s home Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}