SHANTINIKETAN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE Flashcards
Location
Birhum district
Where was it announced
45th session of UNESCO SITE….
Riyadh Saudi arabia
Number of UNESCO site
42nd in West Bengal
After SUNDERBANS and
DARJEELING MOUTAIN PARK
When was Durga Pooja was recognised as UNESCO’s INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITT
2022
Which birth anniversary of tagore was in 2010
150th
On which number is India ranked on world heritage list
India-6th
1st - ITALY (58 SITES)
2nd-CHINA (57 sites)
3rd- GERMANY(51 sites)
When was shanitinketan started?
In 1901 established
Meaning shantiniketan
Sanskrit…ABODE OF PEACE
Shantiniketan ashram by?
Maharishi debendranath father of tagore in 1863 established
When did tagore established open air laboratuin school
1901
What is it’s universities museum called
Rabindra Sadana
His residence….UDAYANA
When was another campus of vishwa bharti established?
1922
By whom was nomination by India prepared for shantiniketan
Prof Manish Chakraborty + Abha narain lamba(2021)
ICOMOS
International council on monuments and sites
Total area…36 hectare nominated to be conserved by ASI
Buffer zone regulated..537 hectare
Who is the chancellor of visva bharti vidyalaya
Pm of india
Other sites
1..PALESTINE ( ancient Jericho)
2.ETHIOPIA (gedeo cultural landscape)
- CHINA PUER (cultural landscape of old tea forests of jingmai mountain)….. China’s 57th UNESCO world heritage sites
World’s first tea culture world heritage site
Jingmai moutain in puer in China
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
7th May ,1941 death in Calcutta
Other names…GURUDEV, KABIGURU, BISWAKABI
When did he deliver speeches in parliament religions?
1929 and 1937
Tagore published his first poems aged 16 under the pen name?
BHAMUSIMHA
Famous works of tagore
Gitanjali,Ghare Baire,Gora,Manasi,Balaka,Sonar Tori,Eka Chalo Re
When did he get the Nobel prize in literature
1913 for Gitanjali
Became the first non European to receive award
When did he received knighthood
1915 from British King George V renounced by him in 1919 after Jallianwala massacre
Which countries national anthems did he compose
India and Bangladesh
