Please refer to my early posts on the old historical colonial universities of India (one and two ) that came up in the 1800s.
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand:
Estd 1847
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| IIT Roorkee, UK en.wikipedia.org |
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| IIT of Roorkee, UP topogroup.com |
Above image: IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand state.1847. Formerly Thompson college of civil engg. The Thomason College of Engineering was founded in 1845 with a view to training engineers for the construction of the Ganges Canal and other civil works undertaken by the English company. The Canal Engineer's Bungalow lies within the campus of IIT Roorkee..............
Indian Institute of technology (IITR), Roorkee was formerly the University of Roorkee (1948–2001) and the Thomason College of Civil Engineering (1853–1948). It is a well-known public university was first established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, and was given university status in 1949 after independence. It became Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, a prestigious institution in India. Most of the graduates from IIT campuses across India go abroad for higher studies and shine very well in their respective fields.
The Thomason College of Engineering was founded in 1845 with a view to training young engineers for the construction of the major Ganges Canal project. The historical Canal Engineer’s Bungalow still lies on the campus. It was renamed as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854 in honor of its founder, Sir James Thomason, lieutenant governor 1843–53. The first Indian to graduate from the Roorkee college was Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal in 1852.
The college followed a unique system of admission which might appear discriminatory. The engineers’ classes were for meant only for Europeans; upper subordinate class for Europeans and Indians and lower subordinate class for Indians only. The Public Works Departments (PWD) had control over the admission and the each alumnus was guaranteed a post in the PWD/irrigation departments. Alumni of University of Roorkee got a name wherever they worked. Many of them were involved in in all the areas of engineering primarily civil, including maintenance of the Ganges canal, construction of dam and irrigation projects like Bhakra Nangal, the Rajasthan canal, the Aswan dam on the Nile in Egypt, and construction of Chandigarh.
Yet another credit to this college was between 1934 and 1943, officers of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers had their training at the Thomason College of Engineering and, even after the establishment of the School of Military Engineering (SME) at Roorkee in 1943, they had continued to receive the technical training at Thomason. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, presented the Charter in November 1949, elevating the erstwhile college to the first engineering university of independent India. The main campus in Roorkee covers an area of 365 acres (1,480,000 m2). IIT Roorkee has a separate campus of 25 acres (100,000 m2) in Saharanpur. UP Here courses in Polymer Science, etc are offered.
University of Roorkee (IITR) along with Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (IIEST) gave the needed impetus for the development of IIT system in the country.
Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Roorkee
https://navrangindia.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/stunning-old-1800s-colonial-universities-in-india
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CMC College, Kottayam, Kerala
Estd: 1815
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| CMC college, Kottayam, Kerala deccanchronicle.com |
The first Western-style college in India, it was established in 1815 two years before the erstwhile Hindu College of Bengal(?) making it perhaps oldest functional college today.
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| CMC college, Kottayam, Kerala |
Founded by the Church Missionary Society of England, in 1815, it was patronized by none other than Thomas Manroe, a great and humane British administrator who was the Governor of Madras Presidency and the first one to become a District collector of Bellary after the British had annexed some parts after the fall of Tipu in 1799. No doubt this institution is steeped in history and became the first one to publish a college Magazine in the native language - Malayalam. The Rev. Benjamin Bailey became the Principal of what was then known as CMC. He was a maverick and a legendary figure in education and he took the honor of publishing Malayalam to English and English to Malayalam dictionaries which were quite helpful to the students and others. In 1864 the college published a magazine in Malayalam with encouragement from the then principal Richard Collins in whose name a library is functioning there. By the bye, room no 52, it is believed, is the oldest one in the complex. It was affiliated to Madras university later.
Yet another credit is there was no institution to teach the English language in the princely state of Travancore. During his stint between 1817 to 1819 at the college, Fr. Bailey made a new approach in this backward state. During his tenure the English language for the first time in Kerala was introduced. His carefully chosen curricula included subjects that were useful to the daily social life of the people.
In 1834 a new school (based on the model of (CMC) was started at Trivandrum by Mr. Roberts, an English educationist of (LMS) at the invitation of Travancore Maharajah who was much impressed when he visited the Scott College in Nagarcoil (now in Tamil Nadu) earlier. This school became a University college later.
What started out as a small institution by the Church Missionary Society of England in in the early 20th century, has now become one of the leading institutions in Kerala with five star status from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) since 1999.
According to The Indian Express daily newspaper article dated 22 December 1996: “As a land of letters, Kottayam is definitely indebted to Benjamin Bailey, the English missionary who came to Kerala, in Kottayam in 1816. In all sense Rev. Bailey is the architect of modern Kottayam. Recently, a statue was erected near the municipal park in Kottayam in his memory."
https://navrangindia.blogspot.com/2016/11/fr-benjamin-bailey-first-lexicigrapher.html
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| en.banglapedia.org |
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