Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute is a post-graduate institute of Archeology and
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Established October 6, 1821, Deccan College is one of the oldest institutions of modern learning in India. It was originally run by the Bombay Government as a center for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, offering western education in accordance with the desire of its founder
Mountstuart ElphinstoneMountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population...
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Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute is a post-graduate institute of Archeology and
LinguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
in
PunePune , formerly known as Punawadi or Punya-Nagari or Poona, is the eighth largest city in India, and the second largest in the state of Maharashtra, after Mumbai...
,
IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
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Established October 6, 1821, Deccan College is one of the oldest institutions of modern learning in India. It was originally run by the Bombay Government as a center for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, offering western education in accordance with the desire of its founder
Mountstuart ElphinstoneMountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population...
. It was temporarily shut down in 1934 due to lack of funding, but was reopened on August 17, 1939 as a Post-Graduate and Research Institute for promoting higher learning and research in
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. The reopened institute originally had four teaching and research Departments: Archaeology, Linguistics, History, and Sociology-Anthropology. It was incorporated by the Poona University (now
University of PuneThe University of Pune is located in Pune, India. It was founded in 1949. Spread over a 400 acre campus, the university is home to 46 academic departments.- History :...
) in 1948, becoming one of its recognized institutions. India granted the Deemed to be University Status to the Institute on March 5, 1990. Currently Deccan College has two teaching and research Departments, Archaeology and linguistics.
Notable professors
- F. W. Bain
Francis William Bain was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit.The first of these was A Digit of the Moon , which Bain claimed was his translation of the eighth part of sixteen of a Sanskrit manuscript given to him by a brahmin.In the story, the king...
- Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. -Biography:...
- Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
Allama Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi was an eminent Indian and Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam...
- Edward Hamilton Aitken
Edward Hamilton Aitken was a humorist, naturalist and a writer especially on the wildlife of India. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha.-Early life:...
- Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar was an award-winning historian and essayist.-Biography:...
- Narayan Govind Kalelkar
Narayan Govind Kalelkar was a linguist from Maharashtra, India.He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit...
Notable students
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called him the "Father of the Indian unrest"...
- Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade , popularly known as Itihasacharya Rajwade was an eminent historian, scholar, writer, commentator and orator from Maharashtra...
- Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music, an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions...
- Meher Baba
Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
- Irawati Karve
Irawati Karve was an Indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer from Maharashtra, India.She was born Irawati Karmarkar in Mynjan, Burma, and grew up in Pune, India.-Education and career:...
- P. B. Gajendragadkar
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