Historical PeriodEra
Varies by tradition
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Deities
Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan
Shantiniketan — Tagore's Visva-Bharati Ashram
Shantiniketan — Tagore's Visva-Bharati Ashram
Hindu / Brahmo / Universal
Shantiniketan — founded 1863 by Debendranath Tagore (the Mahārshi), developed into a global-university by his son Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941, Nobel Laureate 1913). Under Tagore it became Visva-Bharati University (1921), teaching under trees in the Brahmo tradition of harmony among religions. The ashram embodies the Upaniṣadic ideal: the world is a family. Tagore is revered throughout Bengal as an enlightened saint; his songs (Rabindrasangeet) form a bodyof spiritual music. Annual Pauṣ Melā (December) and Basanta Utsav (Holī) are global attractions.
India's sacred landscape embraces all faith-traditions — Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Zoroastrian, tribal, regional-folk — each with its own cosmology. This entry honors Hindu on its own terms.
