Question

Apart from Rabindranath Tagore, who else from the Tagore family has performed the role of the Vice Chancellor of Bisva-Bharati University?
1. Jyotirindranath Tagore
2. Indira Devi Chaudhurani
3. AbanindranathTagore
4. SatyendranathTagore

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Indira Devi Chaudhurani

The correct answer is Indira Devi Chaudhurani.

• Apart from Rabindranath Tagore, Indira Devi Chaudhurani from the Tagore family has performed the role of the Vice-Chancellor of Bisva-Bharati University.
• In 1941, she came to live in Santiniketan. She took charge of Sangit Bhavana and was a member of the Visva-Bharati Svaralipi Samiti.
  • In 1946, she was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati temporarily.
• Visva-Bharati is a central research university.
  • It is an Institution 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 and after independence, the institution was given the status of a central university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.

 

• Indira Devi was the daughter of Satyendranath Tagore, the second son of Debendranath.
  • In 1877 she went to England with her mother Jnanadanandinidevi and her brother Surendranath. When Rabindranath joined them a year later he grew close to these two children who were to be his favorites always, Indiradevi was his confidante and the chief recipient of the letters in Chhinnapatravali.
• She started her training in music at an early age and excelled in both Western and Indian Classical music.
• She also composed some Brahmasangit and wrote the notations for many of her uncle's songs.