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Which of the following university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore?

ANalanda University

BBanaras Hindu University

CAligarh Muslim University

DVisva Bharati University

Answer:

D. Visva Bharati University

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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).


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