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College of Fine Arts, Bengaluru

College in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

College of Fine Arts, Bengaluru (CFA), earlier known as Chitrakala Vidyalaya, is a fine arts college located at Bangalore, Karnataka, affiliated to Bengaluru City University. It was established in the year 1964.

This college offers different undergraduate and postgraduate courses in fine arts.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “College of Fine Arts, Bengaluru” is college in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through College, Fine and Arts, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, College, Fine and Arts is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “college in Bangalore, Karnataka, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “College of Fine Arts, Bengaluru” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.