VISVA-BHARATI Annual Report 2018-2019 Santiniketan 2019 YATRA VISVAM BHAVATYEKANIDAM (Where the World makes its home in a single nest) Contents Chapter I ..............................................................i-viii Department of Botany............................................123 From Bharmacharyashrama to Visva-Bharati...............i Department of Statistics.........................................133 Institutional Structure Today ....................................iii Department of Computer & System Sciences.........137 Socially Relevant Research and Other Activities.......iii Department of Environmental Studies....................141 Lectures at the Africa-Asian Institute,Hamburg Department of Biotechnology...............................147 University, by Prof. Bidyut Chakrabarty....................vi Intergrated Science Education & Research Centre....151 University At a Glance...............................................vi Kala Bhavana.................................................154-169 Swachha Bharat Abhiyan..........................................vii Department of Design ...........................................155 Finance ............................................................. viii Department of Sculpture..........................................158 Teaching Staff Composition ...................................viii Department of Painting..........................................161 Student Composition ..............................................viii Department of Graphic Art....................................163 Administrative Staff Composition ..........................viii Department of History of Art..................................166 Chapter 2............................................................1-300 Sangit Bhavana..............................................170-177 Bhasha Bhavana ..................................................1-50 Dept. of Rabindra Sangit Dance & Drama .............173 Department of Bengali ...............................................2 Hindustani Classical Music......................................176 Dept. of Eng. & Other Modern European Lang.........7 Rabindra Sangit Gabeshana Kendra.........................177 Department of Hindi ................................................18 Department of Sanskrit, Palli and Prakrit .................23 Vinaya Bhavana...............................................178-191 Department of Odia .................................................27 Department of Education..........................................179 Dept. of Arabic, Persian, Urdu & Islamic Studies......31 Department of Yogic Art.........................................188 Department of Physical Education.........................189 Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies..........................32 Department of Santali.................................................37 Palli Samgathana Vibhaga (PSV).................192-209 Department of Marathi................................................39 Rural Extentsion Centre..........................................193 Department of Tamil...................................................40 Silpa Sadana ..........................................................198 Department of Japanese (Nippon Bhavana)...............41 Department of Social Work......................................201 Department of Chinese Language & Culture ...........43 Department of Rural Studies(PCK) .......................208 Centre for Modern European Languages...................46 Centre for Buddhist Studies.......................................48 Palli Siksha Bhavana (PSB)............................210-258 Centre for Comparative Literture................................49 Department of Agronomy........................................ 213 Department of Agricultural Economics & Statistic..223 Vidya-Bhavana ...................................................51-82 Department of Agricultural Extension.....................226 Department of Economics & Politics.........................52 Department of Plant Protection..................................234 Department of Geography........................................62 Department of Soil Science & Agri. Chemistry.......244 Department of History...............................................66 Department of Horticulture & Post Harvest Tech...249 Department of Anthropology....................................70 Agro Economic Research Centre.............................256 Department of Ancient Indian History.......................71 Department of Animal Science................................258 Department of Philosophy & Comparative Religion..73 Womens Studies.........................................................82 Secondary & Higher Secondary Institutions....259-266 Patha Bhavana..........................................................259 Siksha Bhavana ........................................83-153 Siksha Satra.............................................................263 Department of Physics ...........................................85 Department of Chemistry .......................................92 Other Academic Centre Department of Mathematics...................................109 Official Language (Rajbhasha Cell)..........................267 Department of Zoology..........................................116 Rabindra Bhavana.....................................................268 Central Library.........................................................274 Granthana Vibhaga...................................................290 Centre for Endangered Languages................................295 Bangladesh Bhavana................................................299 Chapter 3...............................................................301 Academic Calendar/Programmes. Chapter 4...............................................................303 Student Strength, New Admissions and Other Information. Chapter 5...............................................................305 Projects being undertaken under Capital Assets for the year 2018-2019. Chapter 6...............................................................308 University Finance. Chapter 7 ..............................................................309 Academic & Res. Section Appendix- A to E Appendix A ...............................................................311 Adhyakshas of Bhavanas / Vibhagas (Head of the Institutes Appendix B ............................................................313 Academic Staff Appendix C ............................................................333 Members of the Samsad/Court as on 2.7.2019 Appendix D ...........................................................340 Members of the Karma Samiti as on 2.7.2019 Appendix E ...........................................................342 List of Professor., Associate Professor, & Assistant. Professor) Editorial Board : ....................................................368 Chapter - I From Bharmacharyashrama to Visva-Bharati: A Chronicle of Metamorphosis of a Tiny School into an Internationally-Acclaimed Centre of Learning Visva-Bharati which epitomizes culmination of Asia's first Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's dream of an institution, slated to deliver holistic education, as preached in the Upanisadas (that which emancipates is knowledge) had a very modest beginning. In 1863, Debendranath Tagore,the poet's father and a herbringer of nineteenth century Bengal Renaissance took the users right of 20 bighas of land at an early land rent of twenty rupees in the arid soil of the district of Birbhum and established the Santiniketan Ashrama. In 1888, he executed a Trust Deed for the management of the Ashrama and dedicated it for the purpose of meditation.Thoroughly averse to the-then education system and its mode of teaching which he considered mechanical, soulless and uninspiring, Rabindranath established a school, viz. Santiniketan Brahmacharyashrama on 23rd December, 1901 with five students with the avowed objective of providing, as reported by the Visva-Bharati Bulletin of January, 1924: "to a limited number of children an education which would not be divorced from life, where pupils would become members of a larger family and regard the affairs of the institution as their own, and where they would live and grow in an atmosphere of freedom, mutual trust and happiness." In conscious repudiation of the education system introduced by the British hegemony which harped on producing a group of stupefied clerks, bent on making British Raj unrivalled, Rabindranath introduced a new system of reading-learning where classes were held in open air, where man and nature enter into an immediate harmonious relationship. Twenty years later in a letter to Patrick Geddes, he emphasized: "I merely started with this one simple idea that education should never be dissociated from life." The concept of holistic education which will nurture a 'complete' human was imbibed by Rabindranath from our ancient Indian Upanisadic texts which preached emancipation of soul from the bondage of mundane prosperity. His resource was limited, but his ideal was unswerving. By 1917, the idea of an Indian cultural centre was gradually shaping up. The centre will be slated "for the coordinated study of the different cultures." On 23rd December, 1918, the foundation stone of Visva-Bharati was laid by the poet-educator. In his short speech he explained the aims and objectives of the institution: i Annual Report 2018-2019 "The primary function of a university should be the constructive