Question

Which of the following university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore?

• A. Nalanda University
• B. Banaras Hindu University
• C. Aligarh Muslim University
• D. Visva Bharati University

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Visva Bharati University

Education

• The Deccan Education Soceity founded in 1884 in Pune by G.G.Agarkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahadev Govinda Ranade was one of such educational institutions established with a nationalistic perspective.

• D.K. Karve started the first Indian Women University in Maharashtra in 1916.

• Visva Bharati, the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, focused on universal brotherhood.

• Kerala Kalamandalam in the Cheruthuruthy village of Thrissur, founded by Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon

• In 1937, Mahatma Gandhi proposed a special education plan. This is called Wardha Education Plan.

• Gandhiji proposed that education should be related to some productive occupation.

• He recommended free and compulsory education in mother tongue for all children between 8 and 14 years. This perspective of education is known as Nai Talim (New education).