Rabindra Bharati University (RBU)

The Rabindra Bharati University was established in 1962 to mark the birth centenary of the legendary poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian as well as Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a State University named after Tagore dedicated to the mission of disseminating his thoughts and ideas through humanities, social sciences, art and culture. The Rabindra Bharati University thus features uniqueness in projecting itself as a centre for higher learning in performing arts, fine arts, language, literature and social sciences. There are three major faculties Arts, Fine Arts and Visual Arts, housed in the Emerald Bower Campus while the original campus Jorasanko, now houses a museum, and hosts a number of events like Tagore’s birth and death anniversaries, or the annual University Convocation, to name just a few. Many renowned actors like Sisir Bhaduri, Ahindra Chaudhuri, Shambu Mitra, Kumar Ray, Manoj Mitra, Jogesh Chowdhury, famous singers like Suchitra Mitra, Sumitra Sen, Maya Sen, painters like Shanu Lahiri, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, well-known musicians like Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury, Timir Baran, Pandit Swapan Chowdhury, reputed art historians like Shovan Som have contributed their mites to its overall academic endeavours down these decades.

Rabindra Bharati University was set up with a view to disseminate Tagore’s thoughts on education. The academic programmes thus, reflect the vision of Tagore in its mission to propagate Tagorean culture and its contemporary relevance through the curricular aspects in the Faculties of Arts, Fine Arts and Visual Arts. The course Tagore Studies/ Rabindra Charcha is a compulsory course in the undergraduate curriculum.

The University through its academic programmes commits itself to the service of the nation in the context of plurality of religions and diversity of cultures without taking into any consideration the distinctions across caste, gender, class and locale.