{"id":17289,"date":"2023-09-18T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17289"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:32:29","slug":"santiniketan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/santiniketan","title":{"rendered":"Santiniketan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Facts In News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/Culture and History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Santiniketan is inscribed on the <strong>UNESCO World Heritage <\/strong>List.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Geography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Santiniketan, popularly known today as a university town, is&nbsp; located in the <strong>Birbhum district in West Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rivers:<\/strong>The area is flanked on two sides by the rivers, the Ajay and the Kopai.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">History<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Santiniketan was earlier known as<strong> Bhubadanga. <\/strong>It was established by <strong>Maharshi Debendranath Tagore in 1862,<\/strong> and later expanded by his son, <strong>Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <strong>1901<\/strong>, Rabindranath Tagore chose a vast tract of land and started a school on the \u2018<strong>Brahmacharya Ashram\u2019<\/strong> modeled on the ancient Indian Gurukul system.The school was upgraded to a University and was renamed<strong> Visva Bharati in 1921<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>In 1951, <\/strong>Visva Bharati was declared to be a <strong>central university <\/strong>and an institute of national importance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cultural Significance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong> penned many of his literary classics (namely Tagore songs, poems, novels etc) here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Santiniketan campus is adorned by splendid sculptures, frescoes, murals, and paintings of <strong>Rabindranath Tagore,Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar, Binodbehari Mukhopadhyay <\/strong>and others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Santiniketan stands out as a unique cultural destination, where Rabindranath Tagore tried to bring the world together through architecture, arts and the landscape design.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-santiniketan-inscribed-on-unesco-world-heritage-list\/article67318688.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts In News Syllabus: GS1\/Culture and History News Geography History Cultural Significance Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17290,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289\/revisions\/17290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}