Santiniketan
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Santiniketan is indexed among the 3,384 entries in Vinony's UNESCO World Heritage collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Santiniketan is referenced by 776 other articles, and connects out to Birbhum district, Visva-Bharati University and Debendranath Tagore.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 60 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Cities and towns in Birbhum district, Santiniketan and Tourist attractions in Birbhum district.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shantiniketan
- Settlement.other_name
- Bolpur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Neighbourhood
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Shantiniketan Bari of Rabindranath Tagore.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Shantiniketan Griha
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India West Bengal
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- West Bengal
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Birbhum
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Official
- Settlement.demographics1_info1
- Bengali, English
- Settlement.timezone1
- IST
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +5:30
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- neighborhood
- Named after
- peace
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bolpur
- Elevation
- 56
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Saturday Haat.jpg
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- Commons category
- Santiniketan
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- inception
- 1863-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Topography
- Location
- Notable places
- The Tagore family at Shantiniketan
- Photo gallery
- Climate
- Transport
- About Visva Bharati
- Culture
- Poush Mela
- Festivals at Shantiniketan
- Sinha Sadan
- Ballabhpur Wildlife Sanctuary
- Amar Kutir
- Sonajhuri haat
- Around Santiniketan picture gallery
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Shantiniketan (IPA: [ʃantiniketɔn]) is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Debendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the creation of Visva-Bharati. It is also the birthplace of Indian Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who was also an alumnus of the school.
It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Santiniketan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
60 mapped locations