University of Lucknow

University of Lucknow
The University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is a public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Founded in 1867, the University of Lucknow is one of the oldest government owned institutions of higher education in India. LU's main campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a second campus at Jankipuram. It is the largest state university of Uttar Pradesh.
LU is a teaching, residential and affiliating university, organized into 556 colleges and 17 institutes, located throughout the city and other surrounding areas. It is also one of the oldest residential universities of India. The University has jurisdiction over colleges of 4 districts: Raebareli, Hardoi, Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri. The university is opening a third campus in Sitapur district where vocational and skill development courses will be offered.
The University of Lucknow is the first public university in the State of Uttar Pradesh to be accredited with A++ status by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
History
The idea of establishing a university at Lucknow was conceived by Raja Sir Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan, Khan Bahadur, K.C.I.E. of Mahmudabad. He contributed an article in then popular newspaper, The Pioneer, urging the foundation of a university at Lucknow. Later Sir Harcourt Butler was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces, and was also made Mohammad Khan's well-known interest in all matters, specially in educational matters. The first step to bring the university into being was taken when a General Committee of educationists and persons interested in university education appointed for the purpose, met in conference at Government House, Lucknow, on 10 November 1919. At this meeting Sir Harcourt Butler, being the chairman of the committee, outlined the proposed scheme for the new university.
Eventually, The King George's Medical College (today's King George's Medical University), The Canning College, The Isabella Thoburn College provided structural as well as educational and administrational help for the establishment of the university.
List of Vice Chancellors
Following is a list of the Vice Chancellors of the University of Lucknow:
Rai Bahadur Gyanendra Nath Chakraborty (1920-1926)
Dr. M.B. Cameron (1926-1930)
Pt. Jagat Narain (1930-1932)
R._P._ Paranjpye (1932-1938)
Sri S.M. Habibullah (1938-1941)
Raja Maharaj Singh (1941)
Lt. Col. Raja Viseshwar Dayal Seth (1941-1947)
Narendra Deva (1947-1951)
Acharya Jugal Kishore (1951-1955)
Radhakamal Mukerjee (1955-1958)
Prof. K.A.S Iyer (1958-1960)
Prof. Kali Prasad (1960-1961)
Sri Randhir Singh (1961)
Dr. A.Vitthal Rao (1961-1968)
Makund Behari Lal (1968-1971)
Dr. Gopal Tripathi (1971-1973)
Sri Ashok Kumar Mustafi (1973-1975)
Dr. Girija Prasad Pandey (1976 & 1981)
Dr. Rajendra Vir Singh (1975-1978)
Dr. Girija Shankar Mishra (1978-1979)
Dr. Radha Prasad Agarwal (1981-1982)
Ratan Shankar Mishra (1982-1985)
Dr. Shambhu Nath Jha (1985-1986)
Dr. Sheetla Prasad Nagendra (1986-1989)
Dr. Hari Krishna Awasthi (1989-1992)
Mahendra Singh Sodha (1992-1995)
Dr. Suraj Prasad Singh (1995-1997)
Prof. Ramesh Chandra (1997-1998)
Prof. K.K Kaul (1998)
Prof. Roop Rekha Verma (1998-1999)
Prof. Devendra Pratap Singh (1999-2002)
Prof. Shiv Bahadur Singh (2002-2005)
Ram Prakash Singh (2005-2008)
Prof. Ajaib Singh Brar (2008-2009)
Prof. Upendra Nath Dwivedi (2009)
Prof. Manoj Kumar Mishra (2009-2012)
Prof. G.B. Patnaik (2012-2013)
Prof. S.B. Nimse (2013-2016)
Prof. S.P. Singh (2016-2019)
Alok Kumar Rai (2019-present)
Campus
In the early days, the Canning College had no building of its own, and the scene of its activity periodically changed as one or other building proved unsuitable or insufficient. During the first twelve years, the college was shifted from its original location, the Aminuddaulah Palace, to a number of places, one after another, including the Lal Baradari. At last, it was housed in its own building at Kaisar Bagh. The foundation stone of this new building was laid by the Viceroy, Sir John Lawrence, as far back as 13 November 1867, but the work of construction was not completed until 1878. On 15 November of that year, Sir George Couper, Lt. Commissioner of Avadh, formally opened the new building.
The University has three main libraries, apart from each department having its own. The Central Library of the university known as the Tagore Library, established in 1941, is one of the richest libraries in the country. It was designed by Sir Walter Burley Griffin, the designer of Australian capital city of Canberra. It has 5.25 lakh books, 50,000 journals and approximately 10,000 copies of approved Ph.D. and D.Litt. dissertations. The whole library is online with its own website. The Cyber library is fully air conditioned and consists of more than 500 computers. The Cooperative Lending library was established in 1966 to lend books to economically under privileged graduate and post graduate students for the whole session to be restored only after their examinations are over.
The university also provides residential facilities to teachers, students and non-teaching staff. There are overall 18 hostels for boys and girls in the university. Kailash Hall and Nivedita Hall can house nearly 600 female students. Extra-curricular and employment needs of the students are taken care of by various centres and associations, such as Delegacies, Athletic Association, Centre for Cultural Activities, Information and Employment Bureau and Centre for Information, Publication and Public Relations. An important feature of the university is the organization of regular National Service Scheme programmes to create awareness for social service amongst the students. The university also imparts military training to the students through its NCC Wing.
During the past 20 years, there has been an extension of the University Campus. This is borne out by the fact that a huge and majestic building, as part of the New Campus, has been constructed on 75 acres of land provided by the State Government on Sitapur Road near the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Organisation and administration
Faculties
Faculty of Arts
Departments
Ancient Indian History and Archaeology
Anthropology
Arabic and Arab Culture
Asian Culture
Defence and Strategic Studies
Economics
English and Modern European Languages
Education (Pedagogy)
Forensic science (Running under the authority of the department of Anthropology).
Geography
Hindi and Modern Indian Languages (Bangla, Tamil, Marathi)
Home Science
Journalism & Mass Communication
Jyotir Vigyan (Astrology)
Library & Information Science
Linguistics
Medieval & Modern Indian History (MIH)
Persian and Oriental Persian
Oriental Sanskrit
Oriental Arabic
Philosophy
Political Science
Population Studies
Public Administration
Psychology
Sociology
Social Work
Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali language
Tourism and Travel Management
Urdu
Western History
Women's & Gender Studies
Faculty of Commerce
Departments
Commerce (accounting, finance, marketing & management)
Applied Economics
Business Administration
Faculty of Education
Department
Education, Research & Development
Physical Education & Sports Management
Faculty of Law
Department
Law
Faculty of Science
Departments
Zoology
Botany
Environmental science
Chemistry
Geology
Physics
Mathematics
Astronomy
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Computer Science
Statistics
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Departments
Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)
Civil Engineering (CE)http://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=59
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)http://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=58
Electrical Engineering (EE) http://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=56
Mechanical Engineering (ME) http://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=55
Applied Sciences and Humanities http://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=72
Facilities under Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Training and Placement Cell, Faculty of Engineering & Technology,https://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=76
Central Workshop
Faculty of Fine Arts
Departments
Fine arts
Commercial art
Art & Craft
Graphics Design
Sculpture
Visual arts
Faculty of Yoga and Alternative Medicine
Departments
Yoga
Naturopathy
Faculty of Ayurveda
Department of Ayurveda
Faculty of Unani
Department of Unani
Institute and centres
Management Science
Tourism Studies
Abhinavgupt Institute of Aesthetics & Shaiva Philosophy
APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Innovation
Institute of New and Renewable Energy
Dr. Giri Lal Gupta Institute of Public Health
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Institute of Democracy
Institute for Development of Advanced Computing
Institute of Hydrocarbon, Energy & Geo-resources
Institute of Wildlife Sciences
ONGC Centre of Advanced Studies
Population Research Centre
Development Studies
JK Institute of Sociology, Ecology and Human Relations
Urban Studies
Women Studies
Centre for Cultural Texts, Records & Translation of Indian Literatures
Institute of Human Consciousnes & Yogic Sciences
Food Processing and Technology
Mass Communication in Science & Technology
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Advanced Molecular Genetics & Infectious Diseases
Academics
Rankings
Notable alumni
Politics
Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951) - politician, columnist, former Union Minister, Governor of Kerala
Ashutosh Tandon (born 1960) - cabinet minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh
Atul Kumar Anjan, National Secretary of Communist Party of India
Brajesh Pathak (born 1964) - former MP, currently Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Chandrapal Singh Yadav (born 1959) - Rajya Sabha Member
Chaudhary Dilip Singh Chaturvedi (born 1932), former MLA, Bhind, MP; former LU President 1955-56
Dinesh Sharma (born 1964) - MP Rajya Sabha,Former Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed (1927-2012) Pakistani politician, author, former Federal Minister for Industries and Production
Harish Rawat (born 1948) - former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
K. C. Pant (1931-2012) - former Minister of Defence
Lalji Tondon (1935-2020) - 22nd Governor of Madhya Pradesh, 28th Governor of Bihar
Pushkar Singh Dhami (born 1975) - Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
P.L Punia (born 1945) - Member of Rajya Sabha
Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Raja Bhaiya) (born 1969) - MLA
Ram Govind Chaudhary (born 1946) - Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) - 9th President of India
Shivpal Singh Yadav (born 1955) - politician, MLA, Former-Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh
Surjit Singh Barnala (1925-2017) - former Governor of Tamil Nadu
Sajjad Zaheer (1899-1973) - founding member of the Communist Party of Pakistan
Syed Sibtey Razi (born 1939) - former Governor of Jharkhand
Vijaya Raje Scindia (1919-2001) - late Rajmata of Gwalior
Zafar Ali Naqvi (born 1948) - Member of Parliament
Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) - third president of India
Rajpal Kashyap – Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Salahuddin Usmani – Member of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.
Education and science
S. P. Chakravarti (1904-1981) - father of Electronics and Telecommunications engineering education in India.
Sanduk Ruit (born 1954) - founder of Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
Harish Poptani, professor and chair of the center for Preclinical Imaging at the University of Liverpool
Inder Verma (born 1947) - professor of Molecular Biology
Atul Kumar, chemist
C.M. Naim (born 1936) - writer and academic
Vinod Bhakuni (1962-2011) - biophysicist
Girjesh Govil (1940-2021) - molecular biophysicist
Shyam Swarup Agarwal (1941-2013) - immunologist
Rajendra Prasad, professor of Pulmonary Medicine
Ravi Kant (born 1956) - professor of surgery
Raj Kumar (born 1959) - professor of neurosurgery
Ritu Karidhal (born 1975) - ISRO scientist
Furqan Qamar (born 1960) - Professor of Management
Shalini Kapoor, India's first woman IBM Fellow
Government
Brajendranath De (1852-1932) - early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service
Isha Basant Joshi (1908-?) - India's first female IAS officer
Laxmi Singh (born 1974) - first woman police commissioner of U.P.
R N Kao (1918-2002) - Civil Servant, Founder and First director of R&AW
Literature
Ali Jawad Zaidi (1916-2004) - poet, critic, writer and freedom fighter
Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) - Pakistani novelist, short story writer and scholar
Iftikhar Arif (born 1944) Urdu poet, scholar and intellectual
Kavi Pradeep (1915-1998) - poet and lyricist
Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) - Urdu writer and novelist
Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912-1971), Uyghur poet, writer, lexicographer and Islamic scholar
Attia Hosain (1913-1998) - British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor
Vinod Mehta (1942-2015) - journalist, critic and writer
Roshan Taqui (born 1958) - historian, writer
Law
Adarsh Sein Anand (1936-2017) - former Chief Justice of India and former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission
Prafulla Chandra Pant (born 1952) - Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi (1899-1959) - lawyer and politician
Mahendra Pal Singh (born 1940) - law scholar
S.P. Singh (1937-2020) - jurist
Others
Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993) - founder of Chinmaya Mission
V. Mohini Giri (born 1938) - social activist, Padma Bhushan
Seema Mustafa (born 1955) - journalist
Manoj Joshi, journalist
Suresh Raina (born 1986) - Indian cricketer
Anup Jalota (born 1953) - singer
Amitabh Bhattacharya (born 1976) - lyricist and playback singer
Vartika Singh - Miss Diva 2019 and represented India at 68th edition of the Miss Universe pageant.
See also
University Ground (University of Lucknow)
References
External links
1921 establishments in British India
British colonial architecture in India
Universities and colleges established in 1921
University of Lucknow
Universities in Uttar Pradesh
Walter Burley Griffin buildings