32-471: Visva-Bharati ( IAST : Viśva-Bhāratī ), ( Bengali: [biʃːɔbʱaroti] ) is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan , West Bengal , India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati , which means the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, the institution
64-433: A font, etc. It can be enabled in the input menu in the menu bar under System Preferences → International → Input Menu (or System Preferences → Language and Text → Input Sources) or can be viewed under Edit → Emoji & Symbols in many programs. Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap ( GNOME ) or kcharselect ( KDE ) – exist on most Linux desktop environments. Users of SCIM on Linux based platforms can also have
96-707: A modifier key to type letters with diacritical marks. For example, alt + a = ā. How this is set up varies by operating system. Linux/Unix and BSD desktop environments allow one to set up custom keyboard layouts and switch them by clicking a flag icon in the menu bar. macOS One can use the pre-installed US International keyboard, or install Toshiya Unebe's Easy Unicode keyboard layout. Microsoft Windows Windows also allows one to change keyboard layouts and set up additional custom keyboard mappings for IAST. This Pali keyboard installer made by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) supports IAST (works on Microsoft Windows up to at least version 10, can use Alt button on
128-487: A place within the main campus. While some are preserved for historical value, others are functional in all aspects. While for tourists the place could only be place for sight-seeing, the studious and the academically-inclined can easily feel the scholastic vibrations. Many, especially the Bengalis, have deep reverence for the place and take the visit as a pilgrimage to pay their respects to Tagore. Almost every festival, be it
160-456: A professor in the Manipuri department of Visva-Bharati's Sangeet Bhavan found guilty and sent to the jail on charges of racially abusing a student. Sources IAST The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration ( IAST ) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on
192-672: A scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan , William Jones , Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress , in September 1894. IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is this faithfulness to
224-435: Is actually glottal , not velar . Some letters are modified with diacritics : Long vowels are marked with an overline (often called a macron ). Vocalic (syllabic) consonants, retroflexes and ṣ ( / ʂ ~ ɕ ~ʃ/ ) have an underdot . One letter has an overdot: ṅ ( /ŋ/ ). One has an acute accent : ś ( /ʃ/ ). One letter has a line below: ḻ ( / ɭ / ) (Vedic). Unlike ASCII -only romanisations such as ITRANS or Harvard-Kyoto ,
256-535: Is ready, the university will function from a temporary campus. Ramgarh was one of Tagore's favourite holiday destinations, where he purchased a bungalow on a hilltop. Around 10 acres, on which the bungalow stands, is also likely to be given to the university, which plans to turn it into a museum to showcase Tagore's work. the centre would begin functioning with around 650 students in five schools of studies: language, art & culture, Himalayan studies, social science, public policy and good governance. The high officials of
288-529: Is run by its Karma Samity (Executive Council) which is chaired by the acharya. The institutes and departments are located in both Santiniketan and Sriniketan. The campus security is provided by the CISF , since 2019. The university is divided into institutes, centres, departments and schools. The respective departments are included in the institutes. The university's programmes dealing with its rich cultural heritage, as well as art and dance education, are funded by
320-622: Is the nominal head of the Government of West Bengal . In the capacity of governor , the holder of the aforementioned is the constitutional representative of the President of India (the Union Government ) in the state of West Bengal . C. V. Ananda Bose is the incumbent governor, having taken office on 18 November 2022. In 1911 the imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Delhi and as some compensation to Bengal
352-763: The ISO 15919 standard for transliterating Indic scripts emerged in 2001 from the standards and library worlds. For the most part, ISO 15919 follows the IAST scheme, departing from it only in minor ways (e.g., ṃ/ṁ and ṛ/r̥)—see comparison below. The Indian National Library at Kolkata romanization , intended for the romanisation of all Indic scripts , is an extension of IAST. The IAST letters are listed with their Devanagari equivalents and phonetic values in IPA , valid for Sanskrit , Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, but some phonological changes have occurred: * H
SECTION 10
#1732773035159384-447: The lieutenant governor with council gave place to a governor with a council thus completing the circle and reverting to the position which had been obtained 200 years ago. In 1947 India achieved independence and the title of Governor of Bengal remained. The governor enjoys many different types of powers: In his ex officio capacity, the governor of West Bengal is Chancellor of the universities of West Bengal (at present 16) as per
416-1054: The Acts of the Universities. The Universities are: University of Calcutta ; Jadavpur University ; Presidency University, Kolkata ; University of Kalyani ; Rabindra Bharati University ; Vidyasagar University ; University of Burdwan ; North Bengal University ; Netaji Subhas Open University ; Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology ; Aliah University ; Bankura University ; Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University ; Diamond Harbour Women's University ; University of Gour Banga ; Kazi Nazrul University ; Raiganj University ; Sidho Kanho Birsha University ; Sanskrit College and University ; West Bengal University of Teachers' Training, Education Planning and Administration ; Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya ; Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya ; West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences ; West Bengal University of Health Sciences and West Bengal State University . For Visva Bharati ,
448-518: The Bengal Tuberculosis Association. Governor of West Bengal’s Welfare Fund, has the governor as its chairman. Contributions from this fund are given to the needy people for meeting, to some extent the cost of their treatment. Besides the above, at his discretion, the governor, accepts the position of Chief Patron /Patron or other posts in the honorary capacity, in various organizations that are rendering yeoman service to
480-518: The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked Visva-Bharati in the 101-150 band overall and 97th among universities in India. According to Best Global Universities 2020 ranking produced by U.S. News & World Report , Visva- Bharati ranked 4th among Indian universities. The university terminated the services of
512-587: The Professor of Economics, Sudipta Bhattacharya, for allegedly supporting the student protests against the then Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty's undemocratic action and attempts of saffronisation of the university. The university, however, claimed that the removal of the professor was to prevent damaging the academic environment of the university. 261 academics came out in support of Prof. Bhattacharya, including Noam Chomsky , Prabhat Patnaik , Utsa Patnaik , Amiya Kumar Bagchi , etc. In April 2022, Sumit Basu,
544-689: The acts of the Karma Samity (Executive Council) and the Siksha Samity (Academic Council). The Executive Council is the highest executive body of the University. The Academic Council is the highest academic body of the University and is responsible for the maintenance of standards of instruction, education and examination within the university. It has the right to advise the Executive Council on all academic matters. The university
576-570: The area of Sanskrit studies make use of free OpenType fonts such as FreeSerif or Gentium , both of which have complete support for the full repertoire of conjoined diacritics in the IAST character set. Released under the GNU FreeFont or SIL Open Font License , respectively, such fonts may be freely shared and do not require the person reading or editing a document to purchase proprietary software to make use of its associated fonts. Governor of West Bengal The Governor of West Bengal
608-515: The building of the new campus at Ramgarh in Nainital district . The University later responded to his suggestion and made preparations accordingly. Government of Uttarakhand has handed over 45 acres of land to the university free of cost to set up a campus. The university is keen to start five schools of studies at its first satellite centre in Nainital's Ramgarh from July 2022. Until the campus
640-536: The consumer edition since XP. This is limited to characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Characters are searchable by Unicode character name, and the table can be limited to a particular code block. More advanced third-party tools of the same type are also available (a notable freeware example is BabelMap ). macOS provides a "character palette" with much the same functionality, along with searching by related characters, glyph tables in
672-528: The diacritics used for IAST allow capitalisation of proper names. The capital variants of letters never occurring word-initially ( Ṇ Ṅ Ñ Ṝ Ḹ ) are useful only when writing in all-caps and in Pāṇini contexts for which the convention is to typeset the IT sounds as capital letters. For the most part, IAST is a subset of ISO 15919 that merges the retroflex (underdotted) liquids with the vocalic ones ( ringed below ) and
SECTION 20
#1732773035159704-650: The governor is the Pradhana ( Rector ). The governor is also the chairman or president of some organizations, such as Victoria Memorial Hall , Indian Museum , Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture , Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Calcutta Cultural Centre (Kolkata Kala Kendra), Special Fund for R&R of Ex-servicemen, West Bengal Rajya Sainik Board, Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Indian Red Cross Society - West Bengal State Branch, St. John Ambulance Brigade No. II (West Bengal) District, Bharat Scouts and Guides and
736-440: The local ‘ Poush mela' or the more universal ‘Raksha Bandhan' or ‘Holi,' is celebrated in its originality by the students, locals and staff on the campus... Tagore visualised it as a ‘seat of learning', and his vision was taken forward by Gandhiji and Jawaharlal Nehru. Both played a stellar role in its becoming a Central University in 1951." Visva-Bharati University is located about 170 km (110 mi) by road from Kolkata in
768-482: The north, Kheya to the south, Surul to the east and Prantik to the west. The towns and the university are not far from the river Kopai which flows to the south. In 2018 at a cultural program in Indonesia, former officiating VC Sabuj Koli Sen in her tenure told to the then minister of MHRD , Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal , about Tagore's connection with Ramgarh. He was immediately interested. On 8 July 2020, he announced
800-749: The opportunity to install and use the sa-itrans-iast input handler which provides complete support for the ISO 15919 standard for the romanization of Indic languages as part of the m17n library. Or user can use some Unicode characters in Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended Additional and Combining Diarcritical Marks block to write IAST. Only certain fonts support all the Latin Unicode characters essential for
832-512: The original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars. Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org. The IAST scheme represents more than a century of scholarly usage in books and journals on classical Indian studies. By contrast,
864-471: The right side of the keyboard instead of Ctrl+Alt combination). Many systems provide a way to select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method . Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version of the Character Map program (find it by hitting ⊞ Win + R then type charmap then hit ↵ Enter ) since version NT 4.0 – appearing in
896-400: The short close-mid vowels with the long ones. The following seven exceptions are from the ISO standard accommodating an extended repertoire of symbols to allow transliteration of Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts , as used for languages other than Sanskrit. The most convenient method of inputting romanized Sanskrit is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout . This allows one to hold
928-487: The transliteration of Indic scripts according to the IAST and ISO 15919 standards. For example, the Arial , Tahoma and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions also support precomposed Unicode characters like ī . Many other text fonts commonly used for book production may be lacking in support for one or more characters from this block. Accordingly, many academics working in
960-555: The twin towns of Santiniketan and Sriniketan, in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal . The nearest railway station is Bolpur (Santiniketan) on the Eastern Railway, the domestic air terminal is Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport , Durgapur and the international air terminal is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport , Kolkata. The institute's buildings and departments are scattered among the two towns. The twin towns of Santiniketan and Sriniketan are surrounded by Bolpur to
992-407: The university include the paridarshaka (visitor), pradhana (rector), acharya ( chancellor ), and the upacharya ( vice-chancellor ). The paridarshaka of this university is the president of India , the pradhana is the governor of West Bengal while the acharya is the prime minister of India . The samsad or University Court is the supreme authority of the University and has the power to review
Visva-Bharati University - Misplaced Pages Continue
1024-703: Was given the status of a central university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament. The Hindu writes, "Santiniketan in many ways is still quite different compared to other universities in the country. Located at Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal, the university still has the rural trappings that Tagore dreamt of. The classes are still held in the open under the shade of huge mango trees and students and tutors alike still travel by cycles to keep pollution at bay. The old buildings, even those that were made up of mud walls and thatched roofs, are still intact and find
#158841