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( October 2015 ) Presidency University Former names Hindu College Presidency College Motto Excellence since 1817 Type Public Established 20 January 1817 ; 201 years ago ( 20 January 1817 ) Founders Rani Rashmoni Raja Rammohan Roy David Hare Sir Edward Hyde East Raja Radhakanta Deb Baidyanath Mukhopadhya Rasamay Dutt Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi Governor of West Bengal Vice-Chancellor Anuradha Lohia Students 2,198 Undergraduates 1,462 Postgraduates 736 Location Kolkata, West Bengal, India 22 ° 34 ′ 35 '' N 88 ° 21 ′ 44 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 22.57639 ° N 88.36222 ° E ﻿ / 22.57639 ; 88.36222 Coordinates : 22 ° 34 ′ 35 '' N 88 ° 21 ′ 44 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 22.57639 ° N 88.36222 ° E ﻿ / 22.57639 ; 88.36222 Campus Urban Affiliations UGC, NAAC, AIU Website presiuniv.ac.in Presidency University, Kolkata, formerly Hindu College and Presidency College, is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal. The college was established in 1817 with the money donated by Rani Rashmoni, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Raja Radhakanta Deb, David Hare, Sir Edward Hyde East, Baidyanath Mukhopadhya and Rasamay Dutt. Contents 1 History 1.1 Origin 1.2 University 2 Notable alumni 3 References 4 External links History Origin The main entrance of the university at College Street The Main Building corridor With the creation of the Supreme Court of Calcutta in 1773 many Hindus of Bengal showed eagerness to learn the English language. David Hare, in collaboration with Raja Radhakanta Deb had already taken steps to introduce English education in Bengal. Babu Buddinath Mukherjee advanced the introduction of English as a medium of instruction further by enlisting the support of Sir Edward Hyde East, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Fort William who called a meeting of ' European and Hindu Gentlemen ' in his house in May 1816. The purpose of the meeting was to `` discuss the proposal to establish an institution for giving a liberal education to the children of the members of the Hindu Community ''. The proposal was received with unanimous approbation and a donation of over Rs. 100, 000 was promised for the setting up of the new college. Raja Ram Mohan Roy showed full sympathy for the scheme but chose not to come out in support of the proposal publicly for fear of `` alarming the prejudices of his orthodox countrymen and thus marring the whole idea ''. The College was formally opened on Monday, 20 January 1817 with 20 ' scholars '. The foundation committee of the college, which oversaw its establishment, was headed by Raja Rammohan Roy. The control of the institution was vested in a body of two Governors and four Directors. The first Governors of the college were Maharaja Tejchandra Bahadur of Burdwan and Gopee Mohan Thakoor. The first Directors were Gopi Mohun Deb of Sobhabazar, Joykissen Sinha, Radha Madhab Banerjee and Gunganarain Doss. Buddinath Mukherjee was appointed as the first Secretary of the college. The newly established college mostly admitted Hindu students from affluent and progressive families, but also admitted non-Hindu students such as Muslims, Jews, Christians and Buddhists. At first the classes were held in a house belonging to Gorachand Bysack of Garanhatta ( later renamed 304, Chitpore Road ), which was rented by the college. In January 1818 the college moved to ' Feringhi Kamal Bose 's house ' which was located nearby in Chitpore. From Chitpore, the college moved to Bowbazar and later to the building that now houses the Sanskrit College on College Street. University Memorial plaque of Ram Eqbal Singh A part of the university In 1972, an unsigned article was released by the faculty members of the college demanding that the college be given full university status. It is an open secret that the author of the article was Dipak Banerjee, the legendary economics professor of the college. The state government, then under the chief ministership of Siddhartha Shankar Ray, showed the willingness to listen to the demands of the faculty members, but it was still too early to grant full autonomy to the college. In 2007, the state government, under the chief ministership of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Higher Education ministership of Sudarshan Raychaudhuri, appointed a seven - member committee, under the leadership of Chittotosh Mookerjee. The other members of the committee included Ashes Prasad Mitra, Barun De, Bimal Jalan and Subimal Sen, to look into the possibility of upgrading the status of the college. The report of the committee suggested that the state government, while granting the college partial autonomy, should create more professorships and scholarships for meritorious students, thus making it possible for the grant of full autonomy to the college in future. In 2009, the Governing Body of the college unanimously adopted the proposal that the college should be given full university status. On 16 December 2009, the Government of West Bengal tabled a bill in Bidhansabha titled the Presidency University Act, 2009, in which the West Bengal Legislative Assembly granted full university status to the college. The bill stated that once the college becomes a full state - aided university it will be renamed Presidency University. The new logo of the Presidency University has been created by Sabyasachi Dutta ( সব্যসাচী দত্ত ) as reported in a letter to the Editor of Anandabazar Patrika on 1 April 2013. On 19 March 2010, the West Bengal Government passed the Presidency University Bill, 2009 in the State Legislative Assembly. On 7 July 2010, the governor of West Bengal, MK Narayanan gave his assent to the Presidency University Bill. On 23 July 2010, the Government of West Bengal published the gazette notification completing all the legal formalities for Presidency to become a full university. Amiya Bagchi was given the responsibility of chairing a committee set up to select and appoint the first vice chancellor of the university. Amita Chatterjee, a retired professor of philosophy at Jadavpur University, was appointed as the first vice-chancellor of Presidency University on 5 October 2010. In 2011, Higher Education Minister Bratya Basu suggested that a mentor group, along the lines of the Nalanda mentor group, would be formed to oversee the work of the university. At the beginning of June 2011, the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, announced that a committee would be formed with Amartya Sen as its chief mentor and Harvard - based Sugata Bose as its chairman to oversee the running of the college and perform the task of appointing all its officials and faculty members. The Presidency mentor group also includes as its members Abhijit Banerjee, Ashoke Sen, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Nayanjot Lahiri, Himadri Pakrashi, Rahul Mukerjee and Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Swapan Kumar Chakravorty. Sukanta Chaudhuri resigned from the committee in 2012. In October 2011, Malabika Sarkar, formerly Professor of English at Jadavpur University, was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University. During her term as Vice-Chancellor more than 150 faculty members - Presidency University 's first faculty - were recruited and joined. Presidency 's first officers and the first set of non-teaching staff were also recruited. A new logo was created by an alumnus, infrastructural projects were initiated and the Presidency University Vice-Chancellor's Fund for Excellence was set up. In December 2012, UGC recognized Presidency as an Institution of National Eminence. MOUs for international collaboration with Trinity College, Dublin, Groningen University, Netherlands, and D'Etudes Politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po, Paris ) were signed. Presidency University 's First Convocation was held on 22 August 2013 and the Foundation Stone for Presidency 's Second Campus at Rajarhat was unveiled by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 6 February 2014. Presidency 's First Statutes were completed. Sarkar 's tenure as Vice-Chancellor ended in May 2014. After Sarkar 's time - period expired, a new search committee was built by the state govt. and Chancellor of West Bengal. The search committee published a list of 3 Professors and sent to the Chancellor. The first person in the list Sabyasachi Bhattacharya refused to join administration and choose to teach at Presidency as the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Physics. Ultimately the position went to Anuradha Lohia, a past graduate of Presidency College, who was a senior professor at Bose Institute, a premier institution of research and scholarship in Kolkata. Lohia had taught a number of students for their PhD research over many years in Bose Institute, affiliated for its PhD degree with the Calcutta University. The entrance of the campus is marked with a small guard house on the left. On the wall of the guard room is a plaque dedicated to durwan ( guard ) Ram Eqbal Singh, who died defending the institute from the rioters. show List of University Principals Principals of Presidency College J. Kerr, 1842 -- 1848 David Lester Richardson, 1848 -- 1849 E. Lodge, 1849 -- 1852 J. Sutcliff, M.A., 1852 -- 1856 Leonidas Clint, 1856 - 1857 E. Lodge, 1857 - 1858 J. Sutcliffe, M.A., 1858 -- 1863 W. Grapel, 1863 - 1864 J. Sutcliffe, M.A., 1864 -- 1875 H. Woodrow, 1875 C.H. Tawney, 1875 J. Sutcliffe, M.A., 1875 Alfred Croft, 1876 C.H. Tawney, 1876 -- 1881 G. Bellet, 1881 -- 1882 John Elliot, 1882 -- 1883 Alexander Pedler, 1883 John Elliot, 1883 G. Bellet, 1883 John Elliot, 1884 - 1885 C.H. Tawney, 1885 W. Griffiths, 1885 - 1886 C.H. Tawney, 1886 -- 1887 Alexander Pedler, 1887 C.H. Tawney, 1887 Alexander Pedler, 1887 - 1889 C.H. Tawney, 1889 Alexander Pedler, 1889 Frederick James Rowe, 1889 C.H. Tawney, 1889 W. Griffiths, 1892 -- 1896 Alexander Pedler, 1896 -- 1897 J. H. Gilliland, 1897 Frederick James Rowe, 1897 - 1898 J.H. Gilliland, 1898 Frederick James Rowe, 1898 William Booth, 1898 A. Clarke Edwards, 1899 - 1902 Prasanna Kumar Roy, 1902 A. Clarke Edwards, 1902 -- 1903 Prasanna Kumar Roy, 1903 A. Clarke Edwards, 1903 M.G.D. Prothero, 1904 - 1905 Prasanna Kumar Roy, 1905 - 1906 Alexander Macdonnell, 1906 A. Clarke Edwards, 1906 -- 1907 Henry Rosher James, 1907 -- 1909 Hugh Melville Percival, 1909 Henry Rosher James, 1909 -- 1911 C.W. Peake, 1911 - 1912 Henry Rosher James, 1912 -- 1916 William Christopher Wordsworth, 1916 -- 1917 John Rothney Barrow, 1917 - 1924 William Christopher Wordsworth, 1924 H.E. Stapleton, 1924 - 1926 T.S. Sterling, 1926 - 1927 H.E. Stapleton, 1927 -- 1928 R.B. Ramsbotham, 1928 -- 1929 John Rothney Barrow, 1929 -- 1930 Jahangir Cooverjee Coyajee, 1930 -- 1931 Bhupatimohan Sen, 1931 - 1934 Bhupatimohan Sen, 1934 -- 1936 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1936 Bhupatimohan Sen, 1936 -- 1942 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1942 Bhupatimohan Sen, 1942 -- 1943 Apurbakumar Chanda, 1943 Jyotirmoy Ghosh, 1943 - 1944 Apurbakumar Chanda, 1944 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1945 - 1946 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1946 -- 1947 Muhammad Qudrat - i - Khuda, 1947 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1947 Jogischandra Sinha, 1947 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 1948 Jyotirmoy Ghosh, 1948 -- 1950 Jyotishchandra Sengupta, 1950 Jyotirmoy Ghosh, 1950 -- 1951 Jyotishchandra Sengupta, 1951 -- 1956 F.J. Friend - Pereira, 1956 -- 1958 Sanat Kumar Basu, 1958 -- 1967 Rajendralal Sengupta, 1967 -- 1969 Samerendranath Ghoshal, 1969 -- 1970 Sudhir Chandra Shome, 1970 Pratul Chandra Mukherjee, 1970 -- 1975 Sudhir Chandra Shome, 1975 -- 1976 Pratul Chandra Mukherjee, 1976 -- 1979 Bijoy Shankar Basak, 1979 -- 1982 Achinta Kumar Mukherjee, 1982 -- 1986 Sunil Kumar Rai Chaudhuri, 1986 -- 1991 Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 1991 -- 1997 Nitai Charan Mukherjee, 1997 -- 2000 Amitava Chatterjee, 2001 -- 2005 Mamata Ray, 2005 -- 2008 Sanjib Ghosh, 2008 -- 2010 Amitava Chatterjee, 2010, Vice Chancellors of Presidency University Amita Chatterjee, 2010 -- 2011 Malabika Sarkar, 2011 - 2014 Anuradha Lohia, 2014 -- present Notable alumni See also : List of Kolkata Presidencians References ^ Jump up to : CU information brochure for MSc, BTech Retrieved 25 November 2011 Jump up ^ Chakraborty, Rachana ( 2012 ). `` Presidency College ''. In Islam, Sirajul ; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia : National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh ( Second ed. ). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ^ Jump up to : Our Bureau ( 2010 - 03 - 20 ). `` The Telegraph - Calcutta ( Kolkata ) Frontpage CM beats Mamata to Presidency ''. Telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2012 - 08 - 01. Jump up ^ This building is a historic one because Raja Ram Mohan Roy inaugurated his Brahma Sabha there and Alexander Duff of the Scottish Missionary Board started his educational establishment, the General Assembly 's Institution there as well a few years later in 1830. Jump up ^ Presidency varsity bill gets governor 's assent Jump up ^ Express News Service ( 2010 - 07 - 24 ). `` Presidency University legal steps complete ''. Express India. Retrieved 2012 - 08 - 01. Jump up ^ `` The Telegraph - Calcutta ( Kolkata ) Frontpage Comfort factor confines Presidency to home pool ''. Telegraphindia.com. 2010 - 10 - 06. Retrieved 2012 - 08 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Presidency Mentor Group ''. Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Sukanta Chaudhuri quits ''. Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 26. Jump up ^ Our Bureau ( 2013 - 04 - 14 ). `` Presi guard - ian angel ''. The Telegraph, Calcutta. Retrieved 6 May 2014. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Presidency College, Kolkata. 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