Historical figures in Santiniketan
The atlas holds 5 people and 8 moments here, from 1873 to 1956. The most recorded lives are Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Satyajit Ray. Among them Writers, Philosophers and Jurists, across World War II and the Cold War.
Notable people
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1915
2 moments here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Pranab Mukherjee
in 1935
1 moment here
Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 25 July 2012 to 25 July 2017.…
Rabindranath Tagore
from 1873 to 1940
3 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Satyajit Ray
in 1940
1 moment here
Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1956
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Moments
- 1873 First visit to Santiniketan Rabindranath Tagore
- 1901 Moves permanently to Santiniketan Rabindranath Tagore
- 1915 Arrives at Shantiniketan Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Meets Tagore at Shantiniketan Mahatma Gandhi
- 1935 Birth in Mirati Pranab Mukherjee
- 1940 Fine-art study at Visva-Bharati Satyajit Ray
- 1940 Oxford special convocation at Santiniketan Rabindranath Tagore
- 1956 Vice-Chancellor at Visva-Bharati Satyendra Nath Bose