Field Trip to Jorasanko Thakur Bari and Rabindra Bharati Museum

On May 6, 2023, the Second Year Honours and General students of the History Department were taken on a field trip to Jorasanko Thakur Bari. The birthplace of the first Nobel laureate of India, Rabindranath Tagore, the ancestral house has been converted to Rabindra Bharati University and Museum. It was the house in which Rabindranath Tagore spent most of his childhood and adult life and the Museum gives a detailed account of the life and work of Tagore.
The Japan Gallery, China Gallery, US Gallery, and Hungary Gallery document Tagore’s visits to these countries and explore the rich and fruitful relations that he established in the course of these visits.
The Art Gallery throws light on the paintings of the Bengal School of Art. The gallery has paintings by Jamini Roy and Abanindranath Tagore along with other painters of the Bengal School. Forty original paintings by Rabindranath Tagore are on display along with photographs of Tagore with eminent personalities like Helen Keller.
The visit allowed the students to get a glimpse of life during the Bengal Renaissance and understand the lifestyle and ethos of zamindari families of the nineteenth century.