Visva-Bharati is a public research central university and an Institution of National Importance.
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It is located in Santiniketan, West Bengal.
It was founded in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.
Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, the institution was given the status of a central university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.