Visva-Bharati University
Visva-Bharati University (Bengali: বিশ্বভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is one of India's major Central Government funded autonomous universities located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. In its initial years Tagore expressed his dissatisfaction with the word 'university', since university translates to Vishva-Vidyalaya, which is smaller in scope than Visva Bharati. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, in 1951, the institution was given the status of a university and was renamed Visva Bharati University. The English daily, The Nation, notes, "Using the money he received with his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the school was expanded and renamed Visva-Bharati
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Visva-Bharati University
Visva-Bharati University (Bengali: বিশ্বভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is one of India's major Central Government funded autonomous universities located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. In its initial years Tagore expressed his dissatisfaction with the word 'university', since university translates to Vishva-Vidyalaya, which is smaller in scope than Visva Bharati. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, in 1951, the institution was given the status of a university and was renamed Visva Bharati University. The English daily, The Nation, notes, "Using the money he received with his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the school was expanded and renamed Visva-Bharati
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维斯瓦·巴拉蒂大学(英语:Visva-Bharati Uni ...... 工作至1970年代,中国学院现有本科及硕士研究生160多人。
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Where the world makes a home in a single nest
Yatra Visvam Bhavatyekanidam
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维斯瓦·巴拉蒂大学(英语:Visva-Bharati Uni ...... 工作至1970年代,中国学院现有本科及硕士研究生160多人。
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维斯瓦·巴拉蒂大学
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