The University of Illinois has played an integral role in Visva-Bharati’s history of pioneering scientific experimentation in agriculture as part of Tagore’s ideas.
Inception In 1921 Leonard K Elmhirst had just graduated from the Cornel University. The young British man, was ruminating over his future course when he
That is how Rathi settled down to the life of a skilled gentleman farmer and continued to apply his knowledge usefully in an experimental farm...
One was his determination to break out of the isolation imposed as much by the Indian past as by colonial rule. The other was in
Tagore’s son Rathi and his class mate Santosh Majumdar, who was the son of a close friend of Tagore’s, came to study agriculture at the
