Rajghat Besant School (or RBS) was established in 1913 in Varanasi. The school was founded and is run by Krishnamurti Foundation. The Krishnamurti Foundation India was originally established in 1928 as a charitable institution, by J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Annie Besant. Rajghat Besant School is a residential, co-educational, English medium school affiliated to the CBSE Board, New Delhi. The school is spread over 400 acres of a sprawling campus, stretching across both banks of the Varuna. The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi and has about 380 students from class I through XII, 280 of who are boarders. The class strength is not more than 25 students and the teacher student ratio is 1:7.
Rajghat Besant School (or RBS) in Varanasi is the second oldest school of Krishnnamurti Foundation India and one of the resident-cum-day schools of India, established in 1934 by Jiddu Krishnamurti. It is named after Dr. Annie Besant and located near the Kashi Railway Station on the banks of river Ganges. It consists of the many units of the Rajghat Education Centre–the Rajghat Besant School (RBS), the Vasanta College for Girls, Vasantashram, and the Krishnamurti Study Centre/Retreat. Across the Varuna, the Rural Centre has the Sanjivan Hospital, a free primary health centre, the Rural Primary School for students from surrounding villages, a dairy, and an agricultural farm. Rajghat School is known for its joyful and stress free environment of education. The assembly hall, which has a special significance amongst all the school buildings, was designed by architect Surendranath Kar, a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, whom Tagore himself sent to Rajghat. It was inaugurated on Basant Panchami day by Tagore. Distinguished figures such as the Dalai Lama have visited and continue to visit the school. The school curriculum incorporates social, cultural and extra curricular activities: regular SPIC-MACAY programs are organised on campus, exposing students to cross cultural traditions in music and inculcating appreciation in them. The Annual Sports Day is usually organised in the last week of December. In 1953, Achyut Patwardhan, a close associate of J. Krishnamurti, and a friend of Mahatma Gandhi further expanded the area adjoining the school and founded the Rajghat Rural Centre, which houses two rural schools - one for boys, and the other for girls, in the Village Saraimohana; it also has a hospital, a vocational training institute for women and a farm, which offers its services free of cost, all run by the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Varanasi (Hindustani pronunciation: [Ê‹aËˈraËɳəsi] (listen)), also known as Benares, Banaras (BanÄras [bəˈnaËrÉ™s] (listen)), or Kashi (KÄśī [ˈkaËʃi] (listen)), is a city on the banks of the river Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, India, 320 kilometres (200 mi) south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and 121 kilometres (75 mi) east of Allahabad A major religious hub in India, it is the holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism and Ravidassia Varanasi lies along National Highway 2, and is served by Varanasi Junction railway station and Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport
Varanasi grew as an important industrial centre famous for its muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture Buddha is believed to have founded Buddhism here around 528 BCE when he gave his first sermon, "The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of Dharma", at nearby Sarnath.
The city's religious importance continued to grow in the 8th century, when Adi Shankara established the worship of Shiva as an official sect of Varanasi During the Muslim rule through the Middle Ages, the city continued as an important centre of Hindu devotion, pilgrimage, mysticism and poetry which further contributed to its reputation as a centre of cultural importance and religious education Tulsidas wrote his epic poem on Rama's life called Ram Charit Manas in Varanasi Several other major figures of the Bhakti movement were born in Varanasi, including Kabir and Ravidas Guru Nanak visited Varanasi for Maha Shivaratri in 1507, a trip that played a large role in the founding of Sikhism.
In the 16th century, Varanasi had a cultural revival under the Mughal emperor Akbar who patronised the city, and built two large temples dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu Much of what is considered modern Varanasi was built during the 18th century, by the Maratha and Bhumihar Brahmin kings The Kingdom of Benares was given official status by the Mughals in 1737, and continued as a dynasty-governed area until Indian independence in 1947 The city is governed by the Varanasi Nagar Nigam (Municipal Corporation) and is represented in the Parliament of India by the current Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, who won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 by a huge margin Silk weaving, carpets and crafts and tourism employ a significant number of the local population, as do the Diesel Locomotive Works and Bharat Heavy Electricals.
Varanasi Hospital's foundation stone was laid by governor Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi in 1954 and it was inaugurated by president S Radhakrishnan in 1964Varanasi has been a cultural centre of northern India for several thousand years, and is closely associated with the Ganges Hindus believe that dying here and getting cremated along the banks of the "holy" Ganges river allows one to break the cycle of rebirth and attain salvation, making it a major center for pilgrimage The city is known worldwide for its many ghats, embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions.
Of particular note are the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, the last two being where Hindus cremate their dead The Hindu genealogy registers at Varanasi are kept here
The Ramnagar Fort, near the eastern bank of the Ganges, was built in the 18th century in the Mughal style of architecture, featuring carved balconies, open courtyards, and scenic pavilions Among the estimated 23,000 temples in Varanasi are Kashi Vishwanath Temple of Shiva, the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple, and the Durga Temple The Kashi Naresh (Maharaja of Kashi) is the chief cultural patron of Varanasi, and an essential part of all religious celebrations.
The city has long been an educational and musical centre: many prominent Indian philosophers, poets, writers, and musicians live or have lived in the city, and it was the place where the Benares gharana form of Hindustani classical music was developed One of Asia's largest residential universities is Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtËəɾ pɾəˈdeËʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a state in northern India With roughly 200 million inhabitants, it is the most-populous state in India as well as the most-populous country subdivision in the world It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh during British rule, and was renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950, giving it the acronym UP The state is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts, with the capital being Lucknow On 9 November 2000, a new state, Uttarakhand, was carved from the state's Himalayan hill region.
The two major rivers of the state, the Ganges and Yamuna, join at Triveni Sangam in Allahabad and flow further east as Ganges Other prominent rivers are Gomti and Saryu The forest cover in the state is 609% of the state's geographical area
The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and an international border with Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Madhya Pradesh to the south, and touches the states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to the southeast.
It covers 240,928 km2 (93,023 sq mi), equal to 734% of the total area of India, and is the fourth-largest Indian state by area Though long known for sugar production, the state's economy is now dominated by the services industry The service sector comprises travel and tourism, hotel industry, real estate, insurance and financial consultancies The economy of Uttar Pradesh is the fifth-largest state economy in India with ₹17.
94 lakh crore (US$250 billion) in gross domestic product and a per capita NSDP of ₹70,000 (US$980) There is highest unemployment rate in Uttar Pradesh The state ranks 35th among Indian states in human development index President's rule has been imposed in Uttar Pradesh ten times since 1968, for different reasons and for a total of 1,700 days The state has two international airports, Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport (Lucknow) and Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport (Varanasi).
Allahabad Junction is the headquarters of the North Central Railway and Gorakhpur Railway Station serves as the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway The High Court of the state is located in Allahabad
Inhabitants of the state are called either Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri, Braji, Bundeli, Kannauji, or Rohilkhandi depending upon their region of origin Hinduism is practised by more than three-fourths of the population, with Islam being the next largest religious group Hindi is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state, along with Urdu.
Uttar Pradesh was home to most of mainstream political entity that has existed in ancient and medieval India including Maurya Empire, Harsha Empire, Mughal Empire, Delhi Sultanate, Gupta Empire as well as many other empires At the time of Indian independence movement in the early 20th century, there were three major princely states in Uttar Pradesh- Ramgadi, Rampur and Benares The state houses several holy Hindu temples and pilgrimage centres Uttar Pradesh has three World Heritage sites and ranks first tourist destinations in India Uttar Pradesh has several historical, natural, and religious tourist destinations, such as Kushinagar, Kanpur, Ayodhya, Vrindavan, Mathura, Varanasi, Allahabad, Lucknow, Jaunpur, Noida, Meerut, Bareilly, Faizabad, Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Rampur, Raebareli, Saharanpur, and Gorakhpur.