University of Delhi
 University of Delhi  (University)     | |
|---|---|
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| Formation | 1922 |
| Headquarters | Delhi, India |
| Type | Public |
| Other name | DU |
| DU is one of the most sought after institutions of higher education in India | |
The University of Delhi, informally known as Delhi University (DU), is a collegiate public central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly. It was one of the first institutes to be granted the status of Institute of Eminence. As a collegiate university, its main functions are divided between the academic departments of the university and affiliated colleges. Consisting of three colleges, two faculties, and 750 students at its founding, the University of Delhi has since become India's largest institution of higher learning and among the largest in the world. The university has 16 faculties and 86 departments distributed across its North and South campuses. It has 77 affiliated colleges and five other institutes. The Vice-President of India serves as the University's chancellor.
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Present form
- 3 Notable people
- 4 Nobel laureates
- 5 Activists
- 6 Arts, entertainment and television
- 7 Business
- 8 Educationists
- 9 Humanities and social sciences
- 10 Law
- 11 Literature
- 12 Military
- 13 Media
- 14 Politics and Government
- 15 Science and Engineering
- 16 Notable faculty
- 17 Alumni on Wikispooks
- 18 References
History
The University of Delhi was established in 1922 as a unitary, teaching and residential university by an Act of the then Central Legislative Assembly of the British India.[1] Hari Singh Gour served as the university's first Vice-Chancellor from 1922 to 1926. Only four colleges existed in Delhi at the time: St. Stephen's College founded in 1881, Hindu College founded in 1899, Zakir Husain Delhi College (then known as The Delhi College), founded in 1792 and Ramjas College founded in 1917, which were subsequently affiliated to the university. The university initially had two faculties (Arts and Science) and approximately 750 students.
The seat of power in British India had been transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911. The Viceregal Lodge Estate became the residence of the Viceroy of India until October 1933, when it was given to the University of Delhi. Since then, it has housed the office of the vice-chancellor and other offices.[2]
When Sir Maurice Gwyer came to India in 1937 to serve as Chief Justice of British India, he became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. During his time, postgraduate teaching courses were introduced and laboratories were established at the university.[3] Members of the faculty included Daulat Singh Kothari in Physics and Panchanan Maheshwari in Botany. Gwyer has been called the "maker of university". He was Vice-Chancellor until 1950.[4]
The silver jubilee year of the university in 1947 coincided with India's independence, and the national flag was hoisted in the main building for the first time by Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao. In that year there was no convocation ceremony due to the partition of India. Instead a special ceremony was held in 1948, attended by then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as by Lord Mountbatten, Lady Mountbatten, Abul Kalam Azad, Zakir Husain and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar. Twenty-five years later the golden jubilee celebrations of 1973 were attended by then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, Satyajit Ray, Amrita Pritam and M. S. Subbulakshmi.[5]
Present form
The university has grown into one of the largest universities in India. There are 16 faculties, 86 academic departments, 77 colleges and 5 other institutes spread across city, with 132,435 regular students (114,494 undergraduates and 17,941 postgraduates). There are 261,169 students in non-formal education programmes (258,831 undergraduates and 2,338 postgraduates). DU's chemistry, geology, zoology, sociology and history departments have been awarded the status of Centres of Advanced Studies. In addition, a number of the university's departments receive grants under the Special Assistance Programme of the University Grants Commission in recognition of their outstanding academic work.[6]
DU is one of the most sought after institutions of higher education in India. It also has one of the highest publication counts among Indian universities.[7]
The annual honorary degree ceremony of the University have been conferred upon several people, which includes film actor Amitabh Bachchan, former Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit, cartoonist R. K. Laxman, chemist C. N. R. Rao[8] and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown.[9]
Notable people
This is a list of notable people related to the University of Delhi. This page excludes those people whose only connection with Delhi University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
Nine heads of state and government, and two Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.
Nobel laureates
Two Nobel laureates have been associated with Delhi University.
| Name | Affiliation | Prize | Year | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aung San Suu Kyi | B.A. in Political Science (1964) | Nobel Peace Prize | 1991 | |
| Amartya Sen | Professor of Economics (1963-1971) | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | 1998 |
Activists
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urvashi Butalia | founder of Zubaan, a feminist publishing house | ||||
| Medha Patkar | founder member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan | ||||
| Aruna Roy | Indraprastha | founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan | |||
| Bunker Roy | 1967 | St. Stephen's | social activist and educator | ||
| Rahul Verma | Delhi College of Arts and Commerce | social worker, columnist and founder of Uday Foundation | [10] |
Arts, entertainment and television
Business
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditya Jha | philanthropist and global entrepreneur | ||||
| Ajaypal Singh Banga | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | CEO and President, MasterCard | ||
| Ankur Warikoo | B. Sc. (Physics) | Hindu | Co-Founder and CEO, Nearbuy | ||
| Anshu Jain | 1983 | B. A. (Economics) | SRCC | Co-CEO, Deutsche Bank | |
| Ivan Menezes | St. Stephen's | CEO of Diageo | |||
| Naina Lal Kidwai | 1977 | Lady Shri Ram | Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India | ||
| Piyush Gupta | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | CEO and Director of DBS Group | ||
| Rahul Bajaj | 1958 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | billionaire businessman and chairman of the Bajaj Group | |
| Samir Jain | St. Stephen's | Vice-Chairman and publisher, The Times Group | |||
| Sanjeev Bikhchandani | 1984 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | billionaire businessman; co-founder and CEO, Naukri.com | |
| Shikha Sharma | Lady Shri Ram | Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank | |||
| Siddhartha Lal | 1994 | St. Stephen's | CEO, Eicher Motors | ||
| Vinita Bali | 1975 | Lady Shri Ram | Former Managing Director of Britannia Industries | ||
| Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Delhi College of Engineering | billionaire businessman and founder of Paytm | |||
| Viresh Oberoi | Hansraj | Former CEO of Mjunction | |||
| Vivek Chaand Sehgal | billionaire businessman and chairman of Motherson Sumi Systems |
Educationists
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics | Director, School of Convergence | |||
| Vivek Bhandari | St. Stephen's | director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand |
Humanities and social sciences
Law
Supreme Court judges
Others
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhilasha Kumari | Indraprashtha | Chief Justice on the Manipur High Court | |||
| Bishwajit Bhattacharyya | Faculty of Law | ||||
| Gopal Subramanium | Faculty of Law | ||||
| Gita Mittal | Lady Shri Ram | Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court | |||
| Pinky Anand | Lady Shri Ram; Faculty of Law | ||||
| Sidharth Luthra | 1987; 1990 | Hindu; Faculty of Law | Former Additional Solicitor General of India | ||
| T. Vaiphei | Faculty of Law | Chief Justice of Tripura High Court |
Literature
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Sardar Jafri | Zakir hussain Delhi college | Urdu author and poet. | |||
| Amitav Ghosh | St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics | English language author | |||
| Anita Desai | Miranda House | writer | |||
| Khushwant Singh | St. Stephen's | Author best known for his novel Train to Pakistan; Padma Vibhushan recipient | |||
| Kunzang Choden | B. A. (Psychology) | writer | |||
| Mukul Kesavan | St. Stephen's | Historian, novelist and political and social essayist | |||
| Mohan Rana | Hindi poet | ||||
| Nabila Jamshed | writer | ||||
| Namita Gokhale | co-founder of Jaipur Literature Festival | ||||
| Shiv Khera | writer | ||||
| Upamanyu Chatterjee | St. Stephen's | writer |
Military
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padmavathy Bandopadhyay | Kirori Mal | Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force | |||
| Sonam Wangchuk | Sri Venkateswara | Colonel in the Indian Army; Kargil War veteran; Maha Vir Chakra recipient | |||
| Sourendra Nath Kohli | B. A. | St. Stephen's | Former Chief of the Naval Staff in the Indian Navy | ||
| Surinder Mehra | Former Chief of Air Staff in the Indian Air Force | ||||
| Syed Ata Hasnain | 1972 | B. A. (History) | St. Stephen's | retired Lieutenant General in the Indian Army |
Media
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niharika Acharya | VOA Aaj Tak reporter, anchor | ||||
| Pallavi Aiyar | B. A. (Psychology) | St. Stephen's | author and China correspondent of The Hindu | ||
| Rajat Sharma | Editor in chief of India Tv,founder of Independence News Services & host of Aap ki Adalat. | ||||
| Swaminathan Aiyar | St. Stephen's | economist and former editor of The Economic Times | |||
| Niret J. Alva | television producer and CEO, Miditech | ||||
| Ambika Anand | Jesus and Mary | Editor-in-Chief, fashion at NDTV Good Times | |||
| Shereen Bhan | Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor, CNBC-TV18 | ||||
| Satinder Bindra | India Bureau Chief, CNN | ||||
| Romola Butalia | writer, author, website editor | ||||
| Shoma Chaudhury | ex-Managing Editor, Tehelka | ||||
| Prabhu Chawla | editor of India Today; host of Seedhi Baat on Aaj Tak | ||||
| Swapan Dasgupta | 1975 | B. A. | St. Stephen's | political analyst and journalist | |
| Vinod Dua | Hansraj | journalist | |||
| Bahar Dutt | columnist for CNN-IBN | ||||
| Barkha Dutt | television anchor and journalist | ||||
| Sagarika Ghose | news editor and columnist, CNN-IBN | ||||
| Arnab Goswami | Hindu | Editor-in-chief, Times Now | |||
| Ramachandra Guha | writer and columnist | ||||
| Prem Shankar Jha | columnist; former editor, The Hindustan Times | ||||
| Manoj Joshi | journalist, Deputy Editor, Mail Today | ||||
| Rini Simon Khanna | news anchor | ||||
| Mammen Mathew | editor and Managing Director, Malayala Manorama | ||||
| Rajiv Mehrotra | writer; television producer-director; documentary filmmaker | ||||
| Chandan Mitra | editor of The Pioneer | ||||
| Aroon Purie | Editor-in-chief, India Today | ||||
| Nidhi Razdan | Lady Shri Ram | NDTV anchor | |||
| Radhika Roy | co-founder of NDTV | ||||
| Nalini Singh | journalist, Doordarshan, known for her programme Aankhon Dekhi | ||||
| Chitra Subramaniam, | journalist who broke the Bofors scandal story | ||||
| Salma Sultan | news anchor of Doordarshan |
Politics and Government
Heads of state and government
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aung San Suu Kyi | 1964 | 1st State Counsellor of Myanmar | |||
| Bingu wa Mutharika | 1961; 1963 | B.Com.;M.A. (Economics) | SRCC; Delhi School of Economics | 3rd President of Malawi | |
| G.P. Koirala | 30th Prime Minister of Nepal | ||||
| Khandu Wangchuk | former Prime Minister of Bhutan | ||||
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | 1943 | B.A. (History) | St. Stephen's | 6th President of Pakistan | |
| Narendra Modi | 1978 | B.A. (Political Science) | School of Open Learning | 14th Prime Minister of India | |
| Salim Ahmed Salim | 1968 | St. Stephen's | 4th Prime Minister of Tanzania | ||
| Sangay Ngedup | former Prime Minister of Bhutan |
Other Politicians, Royalty, Civil servants and Diplomats
Note that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the fifth President of India, graduated from St. Stephen's College, when the college was under the University of the Punjab.
Science and Engineering
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amolak Chand Jain | 1948; 1950 | B.Sc. (Chemistry) | Chemist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Amit Dutt | 1994; 1995 | B.Sc. (Botany); Diploma in biochemical technology | Geneticist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Amitabh Joshi | BSc (Botany); M.Sc. (1988) | Evolutionary Biologist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Amitava Raychaudhuri | Particle physicist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||||
| Anil Grover | 1977; 1979 | B.Sc.; M.Sc. | Plant molecular biologist, N-Bios laureate | ||
| Anil Kumar Tyagi | Biochemist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||||
| Apurva Sarin | Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | ||||
| Archana Bhattacharyya | B.Sc (Physics); M. Sc. (Physics) | Physicist; Director of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism | |||
| Asoke Nath Mitra | 1947; 1949 | Ramjas | Physicist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Charusita Chakravarty | B.Sc. (Chemistry) | St. Stephen's | Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Deepak Kumar | St. Stephen's | Physicist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Eknath Prabhakar Ghate | St. Stephen's | Mathematician; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Gaiti Hasan | 1976 | B.Sc. (Zoology) | Miranda House | Molecular Biologist | |
| Hirdaya Behari Mathur | 1948 | Chemist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Jogesh Pati | 1957 | M.Sc. | Physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, recipient of the Dirac Medal. | ||
| Kasturi Lal Chopra | 1952; 1954 | ||||
| Krishna N. Ganesh | 1977 | Ph.D. | Chemist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Meena Upadhyaya | Medical Geneticist | ||||
| N. A. Ramaiah | Physical chemist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||||
| Pran Nath | 1958 | Physicist at Northeastern University | |||
| Raj Rewal | 1954 | Department of Architecture[note 3] | architect | ||
| Rajinder Kumar | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | Chemical engineer and a former professor at the Indian Institute of Science | |||
| Ravi Grover | 1970 | Delhi College of Engineering | Nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer; Padma Shri recipient | ||
| S. C. Jain | Physicist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||||
| Sampat Kumar Tandon | 1972 | PhD | Geologist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Sangeeta Malhotra | 1988 | B.Sc. | Hansraj | Astrophysicist; Fellow of the American Astronomical Society | |
| Satish Chandra Maheshwari | St. Stephen's | Molecular Biologist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Satish Kumar Gupta | B.Sc. | Immunologist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Shasanka Mohan Roy, | 1960; 1962 | B.Sc.; M.Sc. | Quantum physicist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Srinivasan Varadarajan | 1952 | PhD | Chemist and Padma Bhushan awardee | ||
| Subhash Chandra Lakhotia | 1971 | cytogeneticist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
| Sushil Kumar | 1960 | Hansraj | Geneticist; Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
| Usha Kehar Luthra | Lady Hardinge Medical College | Pathologist and cytologist | |||
| V. Balakrishnan | St. Stephen's | Professor of Physics at IIT Madras | |||
| Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman | 1952 | B.Sc. (Physics) | St. Stephen's | Engineer, academic and writer, known for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science education in India | |
| Vinod Dham | B.E. (Electrical Engineering) | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | Inventor of the Pentium chip | ||
| V. K. Dadhwal | B.Sc. (Botany) | Hansraj | Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology |
Notable faculty
| Name | Affiliation | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anil Kumari Malhotra | principal of Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital | Padma Shri recipient (2016) | ||
| Andre Beteille | Professor Emeritus of sociology | Delhi School of Economics | ||
| Amartya Sen | Professor of Economics between 1963 and 1971 at the Delhi School of Economics | Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 | ||
| Ashok Mitra | Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Member of Parliament | |||
| Autar Singh Paintal | Principal | University College of Medical Sciences | medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. | |
| Bhisham Sahni | former lecturer in English at Zakir Husain Delhi College | author and playwright | ||
| Debi Prasad Sarkar | former professor of biochemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient | |||
| Indu Malhotra | Lecturer of Political Science | Miranda House | Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
| Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi | Lecturer in History from 1928 to 1944 | St. Stephen's | Pakistani historian | |
| Jagdish N. Bhagwati | professor of international trade at the Delhi School of Economics from 1962 to 1968 | |||
| Kamal Kumar Sethi | former professor of cardiology, Padma Shri recipient | |||
| Manmohan Singh | Professor of International Trade, 1969-1971 | Delhi School of Economics | 13th Prime Minister of India | |
| M. N. Srinivas | sociologist | |||
| Padma Desai | Associate professor of economics from 1959 to 1968 | Delhi School of Economics | Professor of Comparative economic systems, Columbia University | |
| Percival Spear | lecturer in History from 1924 to 1948 | St. Stephen's College | historian | |
| Pranab Bardhan | Professor (1973 to 1977) | Delhi School of Economics | Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan | Professor of Economics | Indraprastha | wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan | |
| Raj Krishna | professor at the Delhi School of Economics | |||
| Sampat Kumar Tandon | former pro-vice chancellor, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |||
| Santosh Kumar Sen | Head of post graduate studies | Maulana Azad Medical College | Indian surgeon and Padma Bhushan recipient | |
| Surendra Sheodas Barlingay | logician and Marathi writer | |||
| Sushil Kumar Saxena | arts, Indian author, music critic & exponent | |||
| Tista Bagchi | professor of linguistics | |||
| Tapan Raychaudhuri | Indian historian | |||
| T. A. Venkitasubramanian | former professor of biochemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient |
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shumeet Banerji | Spook Businessperson | WEF AGMs, Senior Adviser of Chatham House, BBC non-executive director | ||
| Ajay Banga | 10 November 1959 | US | Businessperson | Indian-US business with a lot of connections, especially to processed food. As Mastercard executive interested in a cashless society. |
| Partha Dasgupta | 17 November 1942 | |||
| Rahul Gandhi | 19 June 1970 | India | Politician | Part of the Nehru–Gandhi family. President of the Indian National Congress 2017-2019, but resigned as party leader after poor election results. |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | 19 June 1945 | Myanmar | Politician | |
| Narendra Modi | 17 September 1950 | |||
| Hardeep Singh Puri | 15 February 1952 | India | Diplomat Civil servant | Indian diplomat with a belief in Western good intentions |
| T. S. Tirumurti | 7 March 1962 | India | Diplomat Civil servant | Indian diplomat |
References
- ↑ http://mhrd.gov.in/central_univ_eng_11%7Ctitle=Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India
- ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/delhi-universitys-grand-inheritance-from-british-india/article2707884.ece
- ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/2002/10/16/stories/2002101600870900.htm
- ↑ http://www.du.ac.in/du/index.php?page=about-du-2
- ↑ http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970817/22950303.html
- ↑ https://www.ugc.ac.in/centralniversitylist.aspx?id=5&Unitype=1
- ↑ https://university.careers360.com/articles/top-universities-in-india-2015-research-ranking
- ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-11-04/india/27817438_1_honours-honorary-degree-r-k-laxman
- ↑ http://www.hindu.com/holnus/000200801211968.htm
- ↑ http://www.udayfoundationindia.org/about-us/
- ↑ http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/first-strike/570994/
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