Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: House of the Thakurs; anglicised to Tagore) is a Haveli in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of the Rabindra Bharati University campus. Build in Traditional Bengali Architecture of Dalan genre, it is considered to be a heritage, historic icon and centre of socio-cultural evolution of Kolkata.

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