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Hindu College
MottoMusic of Truth
TypeCollege
Established1899; 125 years ago (1899)
PrincipalAnju Srivastava
Academic staff
120
Students3,000
Location
Delhi
,
National Capital Territory of Delhi
,
India
CampusNorth Campus, University of Delhi
AffiliationsUniversity of Delhi
Websitehinducollege.ac.in

Hindu College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India.[1][2] Founded in 1899, it is one of the oldest and renowned colleges. It is ranked second best among collegs in India as per National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF).[3] It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in sciences, humanities, social sciences and commerce. It has also been awarded 'Star College' status for its Department of Biotechnology by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Government of India).[4]

The college has produced many notable alumni in the fields of Law, Economics, Science, Psychology, Business, Philosophy, Literature, Media, Cinema, Military, Sports and Politics. Notwithstanding its name, students from all religions are admitted to Hindu College.

History

A 1999 stamp dedicated to Hindu College

Hindu College was founded in 1899 by Krishan Dassji Gurwale and Pandit Deen Dayal Sharma[5][6] in the backdrop of the nationalist struggle against the British Raj. Some prominent citizens, including Rai Bahadur Amba Prasad, Gurwale Ji, decided to start a college that would provide nationalist education to the youth, while being non-elitist and non-sectarian. Originally, the college was housed in a humble building in Kinari Bazar, Chandni Chowk, and it was affiliated to Punjab University as there was no university in Delhi at that time. As the college grew, it faced a major crisis in 1902. The Punjab University warned the college that the university would disaffiliate the college if the college failed to get a proper building of its own. Rai Bahadur Lala Sultan Singh came to rescue the college from this crisis. He donated a part of his historic property, which originally belonged to Colonel James Skinner, at Kashmiri Gate, Delhi, to the college. The college functioned from there till 1953.[7] When the University of Delhi took birth in 1922, Hindu College along with Ramjas College and St. Stephen's College were subsequently affiliated with the University of Delhi, making them the first three institutions to be affiliated with the university.[8]

Hindu College was a centre for intellectual and political debate during India's freedom struggle, especially during the Quit India Movement. It is the only college in Delhi to have a students' parliament since 1935, which provided a platform to many national leaders including Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Annie Besant, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Subhash Chandra Bose for motivating the youth. Responding to Gandhi's Quit India Movement in 1942, the college played a substantial role in India's freedom struggle and some of this college's teachers and students courted arrest.[9] The college also closed its gates for several months.[10]

Principals

  1. B.B. Mookerji, 1899–1906
  2. N.N. Roy, 1906–1911
  3. P.B. Adhikari, 1911–1915
  4. S. Sen, 1915–1917
  5. N.V. Thadani, 1917–1928
  6. S.K. Sen, 1928–1934
  7. N.V. Thadani, 1935–1950
  8. A. Bhattacharya, 1950–1957
  9. R.N. Mathur, 1958–1964
  10. B.M. Bhatia*, 1964–1971, 1973–1980
  11. P.C. Verma, 1980–1995
  12. S.N. Maheshwari, 1995–1997
  13. Kavita A. Sharma, 1998–2008
  14. S. Choudhary, 2008–2010
  15. Vinay K Srivastava, 2010–2012
  16. Pradumn Kumar 2012–2014
  17. Anju Srivastava 2014–present


*Dr. B.M. Bhatia was on leave for two years, 1971–1973. During this period, Dr. P.C. Sood was the substituting principal. [11]

Campus

The college is spread across a 25-acre campus. It has one auditorium, a seminar room and maintains a playground and a sports complex.[12] Basketball, cricket, and table tennis is organised under the supervision of the director of physical education. The college has physics and chemistry laboratories, NCC and NSS rooms, a computer room, a photocopier and a stationery shop. A Students' Centre offers a bank and a canteen.[citation needed]

Library

Hindu College's library is among the oldest college libraries in the University of Delhi. It was set up in 1899, along with the foundation of the college. Also students as well as teachers can refer to various books in library.

Hostel

Hindu College's boys' hostel is situated next to the sports complex of the college. It has 119 rooms enclosing four lawns with rose beds and hedges (charbagh style). The hostel provides residential facilities to about two hundred undergraduate and postgraduate male students. A common room provides the residents recreational facilities such as Carrom-board, chess, and a separate TV room apart from the newspapers and magazines. Due to its limited capacity, only highly meritorious college students get admission to the hostel. The college has start building a girls hostel in 2013. Currently, Girls'Hostel is known as Smt. Indu Punj Girls' Hostel. It has seat for 190 girl student.[13]

Organisation and administration

Departments

  • Department of BA Programme
  • Department of Botany
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of English
  • Department of Hindi
  • Department of History
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Sanskrit
  • Department of Sociology
  • Department of Statistics
  • Department of Zoology
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Physical Science – Chemistry
  • Department of Physical Science – Electronics

Academics

Rankings

College rankings
General – India
NIRF (Colleges) (2022)[14]2

Hindu College is ranked second among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2023.[15]

Student life

Student Societies

Every department has its own society which is tasked with organising department-specific co-curricular activities. Ibtida is the dramatics society of Hindu College which performs both stage and street plays. It was formed by Imtiaz Ali while he was a student at the college.[16] The women's development cell of the college has been very active in gender sensitisation and after the scrapping of section 377 successfully led pride parades to create awareness about LGBTQ+ rights.[citation needed] Caucus l[17]is the discussion forum of Hindu College and works as a mini think tank. It was founded in 2008 and organises group discussions, speaker sessions, roundtable discussions, runs an active blog on its website www.caucus.in and publishes a monthly magazine The Probe. Caucus also functions as the international cell of the college and is responsible for managing the international collaborations of the college. Recently, they have collaborated with King’s College London. The intellectual fest of Hindu College - Compass is also organised annually by Caucus and has hosted various eminent personalities in the past like Prof. Arvind Panagariya, Mr. William Dalrymple, Amb. Shivshanker Menon, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Mr. Shekhar Gupta among others. It is one of the most active societies of the college.

The Indian music society, Alankar, holds its annual festival Harmony every year.[18] The English debating society, popularly known as the Debsoc, is representative of an inquiring and active intellectual life on campus. Debsoc is the only debating society at Delhi University to organise four major debates in an academic year.[19]

The Science Forum is a group of diverse science enthusiasts dwelling in Hindu College.[20]

The Symposium Society is the policy and deliberation forum of Hindu College, University of Delhi. The organization follows a ‘General Body’ structure, with the President and Vice-President at the core. Among its many activities the prominent ones are the Prime Ministerial Debate and Interviews, Hindu Darbar, Hindu Mock Indian Parliament (HMIP), and Hindu Policy Forum (HPS).[citation needed] Furthermore, the society promotes independent student journalism through its bimonthly publication- Hindu College Gazette. The publication also reviews and publishes opinions and analyses from scholars and writers from across the country.[21] However, this society has become inactive lately.

Other societies include Abhyas - The Internship Cell; The Finance & Investment Cell; Abhirang, the Hindi Dramatic Society; Adhrita, The Indian Dance Society, that works to maintain culture and heritage and conduct the only dance fest of DU; Abstraction, the Fine Arts Society; Aria, the Western Music Society; Manthan, the Quiz Society; Srijya, the Contemporary Dance Society; Scribe: The Literary Society; Masque, The English Dramatic Society; Vagmi, the Hindi Debating Society; and Vivre, The Film and Photography Society, the Entrepreneurship Cell, or more commonly just Ecell.[citation needed]

Students' Parliament

The college has a Students' Parliament. The Hindu College Parliament is a unique student organisation in the country. All the students and teachers of the College are its members. The students elect the Prime Minister from amongst themselves at the beginning of the year. There is also a Leader of the Opposition. The Speaker of the Parliament is a teacher nominated by the Principal in his/her capacity as the President of the Hindu College Republic.[22] The College Parliament is a forum for discussions on academic and other issues. It allocates funds to various societies. The parliament is in continuous operation since 1935. Members of the Cabinet of students' Parliament are elected by students. The students' parliament takes care of student demands.[23]

Hindu college features prominently in the movie Rockstar where the protagonist Janardhan Jakhar [played by Ranbir Kapoor] studies during the early part of his life. The choice of location is not surprising, as Imtiaz Ali, the director of this movie, has been an alumnus of this college.[citation needed]

Notable alumni

The alumni of Hindu College are called Hinduites.

References

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  4. ^ "Hindu College Delhi". globaleducates.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. ^ Smith, R. V. (31 August 2014). "A legendary doc". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 August 2020. committee of Hindu College, Dr. Sen played a leading role in youth education along with Lala Shri Krishna Dass Gurwala (one of the founders of the college)
  6. ^ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7.
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  8. ^ "About University of Delhi – University of Delhi". du.ac.in. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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  10. ^ Introduction to Hindu College, Delhi University. The Hindu-college.learnhub.com
  11. ^ "::: Hindu College ::: – About Us". hinducollege.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  12. ^ "Hindu College". dubeat.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Hindu College Hostel Admission form for First-Year Students: All you need to know". 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  14. ^ "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022 (Colleges)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 15 July 2022.
  15. ^ "MoE, National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF)".
  16. ^ Singh, Prashant (18 August 2015). "Realised I liked direction while working in theatre: Imtiaz". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  17. ^ "Caucus Website".
  18. ^ "HARMONY 2015- Music Festival : Hindu college – Heyevent.com". heyevent.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  19. ^ "Hindu College photography festival". The Times of India. 24 April 2014.
  20. ^ "The Science Forum, Hindu College". The Science Forum, Hindu College. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  21. ^ "The Symposium Society".
  22. ^ "::: Hindu College ::: – Campus Life". hinducollege.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  23. ^ "Experiences at Hindu College (DU) | Studiebay". www.studiebay.com. Archived from the original on 17 January 2015.
  24. ^ "Arnab Goswami quits Times Now". The Hindu. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
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