Rabindra Bharati University West Bengal RBU

Rabindra Bharati University was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act to mark the birth centenary of poet Rabindranath Tagore at his residential house at Kolkata for the advancement of learning and culture particularly in the branches of music, dance and drama. Assent of the President of India to the Rabindra Bharati Act passed by the Legislature of West Bengal, was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extra Ordinary, of the 10th January, 1962. The poet Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian as well as the first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.