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Overview
Founded in 1954, Rabindra Bharati University is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the the urban setting of the metropolis of Kolkata (population range of over 5,000,000 inhabitants), West Bengal. Officially accredited/recognized by the University Grants Commission, India, Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) is a coeducational higher education institution. Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor degrees (i.e. certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation degrees), bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. International students are welcome to apply for enrollment. RBU also provides several academic and non-academic facilities and services to students including a library, online courses and distance learning opportunities, as well as administrative services.
Rabindra Bharati University (Bengali:রবীন্দ্র ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari.
The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Performing Arts and Visual Arts under the Faculty of Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts.
The present Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, a noted social scientist and political commentator.
History
At the university’s founding in 1962, it occupied the former home of Rabindranath Tagore. While two of the three faculties of the University, those of Fine Arts and Visual Arts, are still located there, when the Faculty of Arts was founded in 1976, it was located on a new campus at 56A, B. T. Road, Kolkata-50. The new campus was on the grounds of the “Emerald Bower,” a mansion built by Harakumar Tagore, the poet’s uncle. The mansion and its parklands, later acquired by the Government of West Bengal, became a complex of academic institutions among which this University has the central and larger share. The main administrative office is also situated at the Emerald Bower Campus.
The university was reconstituted in 1981 by the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981.
Tagore museum
The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family, located at campus. It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.
Notable alumni
- Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty
- Pandit Chitresh Das
- Swagatalakshmi Das
- Anup Ghoshal
- Sunil Kothari
- Rev Fr Felix Raj SJ
- Madhushree
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Deepa Dasmunsi
- Shuvaprasanna, artist
Courses offered
Certificate courses, Diploma courses, Undergraduate Degree Courses, Postgraduate Degree Courses and Research/Doctoral-Level Courses.
Some of the other services which are provided by the University are the access to the database, photocopying services, information and reference service, inter-library loan and display of the new arrivals at the central library. The university now also provides a post-graduate degree for external students in its new Salt Lake Campus.
Faculty of Arts
Department | Year of Estb. | Courses | Medium of Inst./Exam. |
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Adult & Continuing Education | 1985 | B.Ed. Special Education (VI), Diploma | English, Bengali |
Bengali | 1962 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Comparative Literature | 2009 | M.Phil. | |
Economics | 1972 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Education | 1985 | B.Ed., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
English | 1962 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Environmental Studies | 2008 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
Geography | 2008 | MA. | English, Bengali |
Hindi | 2008 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
History | 1967 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Human Development Studies | 2006 | M.Phil. | English, Bengali |
Human Rights and Human Development | 2006 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
Library & Information Science | 1985 | B.L.I.Sc, M.LI.Sc., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
MSW | 2010 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
Mathematics | 2006 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
Philosophy | 1963 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Political Science | 1971 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Sanskrit | 1963 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Santali Language, Literature and Culture | 2008 | M.Phil. * | English, Bengali |
Sociology | 2008 | M.A. | English, Bengali |
Women Studies | 2008 | M.Phil. | English, Bengali |
Faculty Of Fine Arts
Department | Year of Estb. | Courses | Medium of Inst./Exam. |
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Dance | 1962 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Drama | 1962 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Instrumental Music | 1976 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Mass Communication & Videography | 2001 | MA, Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Musicology | 2001 | M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Percussion | 1976 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Rabindra Sangeet | 1978 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Vocal Music | 1962 | B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Faculty Of Visual Arts
Department | Year of Estb. | Courses | Medium of Inst./Exam. |
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Applied Art | 1982 | B.F.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Graphics | 1982 | B.F.A. ,M.F.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
History of Art | 1982 | B.F.A.,M.FA, Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Painting | 1972 | B.F.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Sculpture | 1982 | B.F.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Museology | 2008 | MA, Ph.D., D.Litt. | English, Bengali |
Online Resources (WebOPAC)
- JGate Plus | How to use JGate Plus
- Online Journals
- Online Journals – INFLIBNET
- Online e-Books
About Central Library
Rabindra Bharati University Library system consists of the Central Library, Sangeet Bhavan Library and departmental libraries attached with academic departments. Rabindra Bharati University Library was started in the year 1962 in a small room at Jorasanko, the ancestral house of Rabindranath Tagore. Within a year whole library was shifted to the first floor of Maharshi Bhavan where a spacious accommodation of books as well as readers was provided. In the mid-seventies a part of library was shifted to Emerald Bower Campus on B T Road, along with some academic departments of Arts faculty. A four-storied library building Kendriya Granthagar Bhavan was constructed and now central library is located there since 2001. In the end of 2007 when all departments of Visual Arts and Fine Arts faculty were shifted to E B Campus, the library of Jorasanko campus was also shifted to E B Campus and accommodated in the first floor of Sangeet Bhavan.
Membership: The membership is open to teachers, students, research scholars, officers and non-teaching employees of the university. The reading facilities are provided to outside scholars engaged in serious reading and research.
Library Hours: Central Library
Monday to Friday – 10.30 AM to 8.30 PM
Saturday – 10.30 AM to 5.30 PM
Sangeet Bhawan Library
Monday to Friday – 10.30 AM to 5.30 PM
Central Library remains closed on Sunday and other University holidays while Sangeet Bhawan Library remains closed on Saturday, Sunday and other University holidays.
Library Collection: Central Library has a collection of more than 120500 books, 2550 bound volume journals, 800 theses, conference proceedings, reports and rare books. Books are categorized as general books and reference books. Students, research scholars, teachers and other library members can borrow general books while reference books have to be read within the library premises.
Current Journals: Rabindra Bharati University Library regularly subscribes 250 print journals which are displayed at the periodical section in the 2nd floor. Central Library also provides access to a good number of e-journals and some e-resources.