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020			_a978-8178246406 : _cRs.1200.00 _qhbk
040			_aIDSK _beng _cIDSK
041			_aeng _heng
082			_223 _a378.095414 _bG1976t
100	1		_a Ganguli, Swati _eauthor _94460
245	1	0	_aTagore’s university: _ba history of Visva-Bharati 1921–1961 / _cSwati Ganguly.
260			_aRanikhet : _b Permanent Black, _c2022.
300			_axix; 488 p. : _bill. _c23 cm.
490			_aHedgehog and Fox : history and politics series.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aTagore’s University is a history of Visva-Bharati, the world centre of learning and culture founded by Rabindranath Tagore a hundred years ago. The poet’s conception entailed several autonomous centres – for Asian studies, the visual arts, music, and rural reconstruction – in defiance of the standard notions of a university. Visva-Bharati was set up to break barriers between nations and races by rebuilding in miniature the visva – the world torn apart by World War I. The book traces the first four decades of this large experiment in building a cultural community of learning, teaching, and scholarship. It tells the story of exceptional individuals from across Europe, Asia, America, and India who became Tagore’s collaborators in a mini-universe of creativity and humane intellection. It reveals why in its heyday Visva-Bharati was so internationally renowned as an extraordinarily attractive institution. Swati Ganguly explores the many achievements of what Tagore called his “life’s best treasure”. She also narrates changes in the material life and spirit of the place after Tagore, when it was shaped by the larger forces of a newly independent India. Archives, memoirs, official documents, and oral narratives come alive in this compellingly written and little-known history of an institution that once redefined tradition and modernity.[Provided by publisher]
650		0	_2LCSH _aVisva-Bharati University _zIndia - West Bengal _94461
650		0	_2LCSH _aInstitutional History _94462
650		0	_2LCSH _aEducational institution _94463
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