Part III: Visva-Bharati – Tagore’s Vision of Learning and Civilization
Visva-Bharati was conceived as Tagore’s response to the predicament of the disconnection between forms of life and institutions in the Indian context. It was an attempt not merely to found a new university, but to recreate the intellectual conditions through which India’s civilizational traditions could once again become living, creative, and capable of generating genuine institutions of learning. Visva-Bharati gave concrete form to an ideal, a world centre of learning in India. Santiniketan was the…