{"id":2712,"date":"2023-02-05T05:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:20:24","slug":"visva-bharati-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/visva-bharati-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Visva Bharati university"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Visva Bharati university:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of <strong>India&#8217;s major Central Government funded autonomous university<\/strong> located in Santiniketan, <strong>West Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is well-known as a distinguished <strong>centre for Visual Art practice and researc<\/strong>h in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The university was <strong>established in 1921 by Nobel Prize Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>named after Nobel Laureate RabindranathTagore until <\/strong>Visva-Bharati Society was <strong>registered as an organisation in May 1922.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The institution was given the <strong>status of Central University in 1951<\/strong> through a central Act.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>first vice-chancellor was Rathindranath Tagore<\/strong>, the <strong>son of Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong>, and the second vice-chancellor was grandfather of another Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>President of India appoints the Vice-chancellor of the University.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visva Bharati University is <strong>renowned for its cultural festivals called Poush Mela and the BasantaUtsab\u00a0<\/strong> which attracts a number of artisans from all across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who was Rathindranath Tagore?<\/h3>\n<p>He was Rabindranath\u2019s oldest son (second child) and one of his first students at Shantiniketan. He was an agriculturist, carpenter, architect, writer, painter, teacher of genetics at Visva-Bharati and its first vice-chancellor after it became Central University.<br \/>\n<strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/kolkata\/unesco-to-soon-declare-visva-bharati-worlds-first-living-heritage-university-8424445\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>UNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world\u2019s first living heritage university<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visva Bharati university is well-known as a distinguished centre for Visual Art practice and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2712","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\/2712","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=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}