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The University of Calcutta in the late nineteenth century, by Francis Frith. The Calcutta University Act came into force on 24 January 1857, and a 41-member Senate was formed as the policy-making body of the university. The land for the establishment of the university was given by Maharaja Maheshwar Singh Bahadur, who was a Maharaja of Darbhanga.
This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta. Honorary degree recipients This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Color key Light green indicates "(Special)"; pink indicates "(Posthumous)" Year Name Degree 1876 H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ...
Fakir Chand College in Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, India, is a liberal arts, science and commerce Government college, situated 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Kolkata. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It employs almost 100 teaching staff (50 full-time and 50 part-time, guest or visiting faculty), 50 support staff and 5,500 students.
Despite the fact that the University College of Science and Technology was a department of Calcutta University set up as a part of the colonial educational despatch of 1854. there had been no substantial financial support from the British Raj to encourage the Indian scientists in their works presumably under the idea that Indian brains were not ...
Finally the University Law College, started functioning under the management of a government body consisting of 16 members with the Vice-Chancellor as President from July, 1909. Eminent scholar and jurist Dr. S.C. Bagchi , LL.D became the first principal and Birajmohan Majumdar was appointed the first vice-principal of this College.
In 1857, the University of Calcutta was established as the first full-fledged multi-disciplinary university in south Asia. It was modelled on the lines of the University of London. Today it is amongst the largest multidisciplinary universities of India and offers some of the widest number of academic disciplines for study.
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It was established in 1857. There are several colleges and institutes that are affiliated to this university. At present, there are approximately 160 institutes which comes under this university, which are mostly located in the districts of Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, and South 24 Parganas. [1] [2]