With the arrival of the English and their enterprise East India company, western education was introduced in India after they had finally consolidated their hold on the land and the people. We also had an advantage of western education. Our old culture and heritage got the attention of the Europeans through English scholars. The world came to know about the richness of various Indian languages, in particular Sanskrit and also other fields.
India boasts of some of the oldest colleges and universities built during the colonial period. Below listed are some of the old, historical institutions built in the 1800s and a brief account about them. The credit goes to numerous Christian missionaries who emphasized the value of western education in India in the midst of their missionary work. Indians, at last, accepted the western approach to education without compromising on India's age-old tradition, culture and heritage.
University of Mumbai:
Estd.: 1857
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| University of Mumbai, Mumbai. estd. 1857.collegesearch.in |
The main campus of the University of Mumbai is situated at Kalina, Santacruz in Mumbai. However, its first campus was set up at South Mumbai, known as the Fort Campus. It is one of the first state universities in India and still caters to thousands of students.
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| 1823 Elphinstone college, Mumbai. .kamit.jp |
Above image: Elphinstone College Building, in Byculla, Mumbai, MH was designed by James Trubshaw, it played a major role in the starting of Univ. of Mumbai (Bombay). EC changed the educational perspectives and the landscape of this part of India. The college was formally instituted in 1835 and named after Mountstuart Elphinstone, Scottish administrator and historian. He was the governor of Bombay Presidency from 1819 to 1827.............................
The University of Mumbai established in 1857 was modeled on the universities in Great Britain, particularly University of London. This was in response to a petition from the Bombay Association to the then British government of India drafted by Sir Charles Wood in 1854. Elphinstone College, founded in 1835 was part of the university, so were the departments and the faculty of art. In 1845 the faculty of medicine at Grant Medical College came up and in 1862, medical degrees were awarded. Because of space, the Town Hall was used as a make-shift university offices for a long time. PG courses were introduced in 1904. After India's independence, Bombay University Act of 1953 was passed. It became University of Mumbai as per a gazette of the Government of Maharashtra dated 4 September 1996. In 1949, student enrolment was 42,272 with 80 affiliated colleges.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mumbai
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Madras university:
Estd: 1857
Madras university has been a popular university for a pretty long time. Now it has six campuses in the
city. These are at Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and
Chetpet. It got ranked 5th by the India Today in its 2011 top
universities ranking.
Madras university:
Estd: 1857
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| Madras University, Chennai.es.dreamstime.com |
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| Logo. The University of Madras. google.co.in |
Above image: The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Established in 1857. Logo .........
Based on a public petition, signed by 70,000 residents presented by the Advocate General Mr. George Norton on 11 November 1839, pressing the need for an English college in the city of Madras, in the follow up Lord Elphinstone had a plan to have a central collegiate institution or a ‘university.’ built with two departments - a high school for the cultivation of English literature, regional language, philosophy and science, and a college for instruction in the higher branches of literature, philosophy and science.
With Mr. George Norton as its President in 1840 the University Board was established and this was the precursor of the present Presidency College, Chennai. Based on Wood's dispatch for "creating a properly articulated system of education from the primary school to the University", the University of Madras came into being on the model of the University of London. It was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India.
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The Serampore College, Serampore (West Bengal):
Estd: 1818
Above image: Serampore College, Kolkata (Calcutta0 founded on 15 July 1818 CE is the second oldest college in in the country next to the Presidency College, Kolkata. It has two entities - theological college and college for science and arts. Noe arts and science degrees are awarded by the univ. of Calcutta and the Senate of Serampore College (University) awards the theological degrees. Serampore college was born in Aldeen House, Kolkata. It was in decrepit condition and was recently renovated. Aldeen House had been a center of learning where a batch of 37 students mostly Europeans s learnt Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, astronomy, geology and botany. In In 1821, the college shifted to the present campus..............
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| 18181 Façade of the Serampore College near Kolkata en.wikipedia.org |
Above image: Serampore College, Kolkata (Calcutta0 founded on 15 July 1818 CE is the second oldest college in in the country next to the Presidency College, Kolkata. It has two entities - theological college and college for science and arts. Noe arts and science degrees are awarded by the univ. of Calcutta and the Senate of Serampore College (University) awards the theological degrees. Serampore college was born in Aldeen House, Kolkata. It was in decrepit condition and was recently renovated. Aldeen House had been a center of learning where a batch of 37 students mostly Europeans s learnt Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, astronomy, geology and botany. In In 1821, the college shifted to the present campus..............
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| .1818 Serampore college, near Kolkata wmcarey.edu |
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| Serampore College, Kolkata, wmcarey.edu |
Founded by Protestant missionaries known as the Serampore Trio William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward in 1818, the purpose of the Serampore College, about 33 km from Kolkata city, was to spread Eastern literature to he western world, impart western educations in arts, science and commerce to the Indian natives regardless of caste and creed without compromising on Indian traditional values and languages on one hand and on the other, to impart training in the area of missionary work for those interested in the Christian faith.
One is just a conventional college and the other being religion -oriented a Theological college with rights to confer theological degrees as well under the administration of the Senate of Serampore College (University). As for the Senate, they got the right to grant degrees through a Royal Charter in Copenhagen, Denmark
by the king of Denmark, Frederick VI as the Serampore area and near-by places were in the Dutch settlement. The credit goes to Joshua Marshman's visit to King Frederick in August 1826 who convinced the king and requested them to have an autonomous status. The charter gave Serampore College the privilege of awarding degrees in arts and theology as well, a rare one. This institution became the third Danish University after the ones in Copenhagen and Kiel (till its affiliation with the university of Calcutta 1857 the arts, science and commerce parts of Serampore College were affiliated to the University of Calcutta
Though the British on February 22, 1845, bought all the Indian assists of the Dutch colony, the management and functioning of the college continued without interruption under the direction of a master and council. After the founding of Calcutta University in 1857 under the British the Serampore College became affiliated with it, whereas Theological college became an autonomous institution on its own and had the rights to grant degree under University Grants Commission of the UGC Act, 1956. Affiliating again with the University of Calcutta in 1911, Serampore College, in 1913, received authorization to award the Bachelor of Arts degree.
Taking inspiration from the early pioneers of the Serampore College - protestant trio William Carey, Marshman, and Ward in the 19th and 20th centuries, this college this college has been doing a yeomen service to the cause of education since its inception, preparing the students well to face the future challenges in the society that would put the country on the forward mode.
Outside the Christian community, the college got a name and became a well-known institution of excellence. The college has one of the best libraries housing more than 16000 rare books sometimes sought by scholars from other countries; aptly named after Carey Library. All the three founders of the college believed in teaching subjects in the native tongue, but the British government preferred English to the native languages. It is both Oriental and Occidental in character, giving due importance to education in the regional languages.
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| Indian postal stamp 7 June 1969 istampgallery.com |
Above image: Postal commemoration stamp issued in 1969 celebrating Serampore college's 150th year...............................
On June 7th, 1969, the Department of Posts of the Government of India issued a stamp and a first day cover along with a brochure on Contemporary Status.
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