Santiniketan

Also known as Shantiniketan

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

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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

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections

Contents

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.