Rabindranath Tagore establishes Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1921.
Visva Bharati University, one of India's most prestigious universities, is marking its 100th anniversary of its founding. Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel laureate who did not complete his official schooling, created it in 1921. The Visva Bharti University was legally created in 1921, however it was founded in 1863, when Tagore was only two years old. An Act of Parliament designated one of the country's oldest Central universities as a national institution in 1951.
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