Santiniketan
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shantiniketan
- Settlement.other_name
- Bolpur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Neighbourhood
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- Shantiniketan Bari of Rabindranath Tagore.jpg
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- Shantiniketan Griha
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- India West Bengal
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- left
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- Country
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- India
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- State
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- District
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- West Bengal
Article
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.