Santiniketan
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How it came to be
In 1863 Debendranath Tagore leased 20 acres in Birbhum, West Bengal, for 5 rupees a year, built a guest house and named it Santiniketan, the abode of peace.
In 1901 his son, the poet Rabindranath Tagore, opened a residential school here with classes held under the trees. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 and founded the university Visva-Bharati in 1921. Its students and artists mixed Indian classical and folk traditions with Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Balinese and Burmese forms in buildings and murals.
Visva-Bharati became a central university in 1951. Still a working campus, Santiniketan was inscribed in 2023.
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