Santiniketan is the Birbhum of West Bengal.

Santiniketan is an ashram and learning center located near Bolpur town in Birbhum district of West Bengal. Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, the father of Rabindranath Tagore, established this ashram in the northern part of Bolpur city in 173 AD in private for the purpose of contemplation of God and discussion of religion. In