23, June 2025

A Geographical Overview on the Development of Santiniketan and Its Surroundings as Tourist Site

VOLUME-9; ISSUE-6; JUNE-2025

Author(s): Dr. Jagannath Mondal

Authors Affiliations:

Assistant Professor in Geography

Turku Hansda Lapsa Hemram Mahavidyalay, Mallarpur, Birbhum, West Bengal

DOIs:10.2017/IJRCS/202506012     |     Paper ID: IJRCS202506012


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Santiniketan is one of the most prestigious heritage sites of India. This small cultural town was a meditation centre of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and a vision of the famous Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore that has been carrying itself for more than 150 years of developmental history. Thus, Santiniketan has a history of its growth and development comprising of major changes of its environment. In this connection Rabindranath Tagore played a vital role. The present paper is focusing on changes of Physical and socio-cultural environment of Santiniketan and its surroundings to promote tourism activities in these areas. Through this paper, the present author has visualized that Santiniketan is moving towards a critical phase of tourism development that is drifting away from its actual entity. At the same time the author would like to proclaim some leading ways which would rejuvenate and retain substantial ecology and regal spirit of its tourism.

Prestigious heritage sites, Cultural town, Changes of the environment, Rabindranath Tagore, Critical phase of tourism development.

Dr. Jagannath Mondal (2025) ; A Geographical Overview on the Development of Santiniketan and Its Surroundings as Tourist Site, International Journal of Research Culture Society,    ISSN(O): 2456-6683,  Volume – 9,   Issue –  6,  Pp.89-97.        Available on – https://ijrcs.org/

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