Architecture
by Kiran Joshi
Title
Architecture
Artist
Kiran Joshi
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Photograph - Photograph
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Established on October 6, 1821 as Hindoo College, it is one of the third oldest institutions of modern learning in India. It was started under Mountstuart Elphinstone(Lt. Governor of Bombay Presidency), with funds diverted from the erstwhile Peshwa's Dakshina Fund which was later practiced by Sardar Khanderao Dabhade after the Territories of the Peshwa were annexed in 1818.[1] It was then also known as the Poona Sanskrit College. In 1837, English and other modern subjects were added to the curriculum.[2] An English school was added to the College in 1842 and on 7 June 1851 the English school was merged with the Hindoo College to form the Poona College. From its original location in Vishrambaug Wada and later in Wanowri, the Poona College was shifted to its present large campus near Yerawada. The land for the campus was donated by the Bombay Government and the Foundation stone of the main Building was laid on 15 October 1864. A Victorian neo-Gothic building was constructed by Sir Henry Bartle Frere with a munificent 1,00,000 rupees from Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 2nd Baronet, at its current location between Kirkee and Yerawada. The College started functioning on the new campus on 23 March 1868. At this stage the College was renamed as Deccan College in recognition of the enrollment of students from the entire Deccan region. Until 1881, Deccan College was staffed by four professors, one acting as principal. Another of the four, the professor of Oriental languages, supervised five traditional Sanskrit shastris and an expert in Zend Pahlevi in an extensive program of research and text publication, in addition to his teaching duties.[3] Two to four Dakshina fellows, some of them not far advanced in college study themselves, did the bulk of the elementary English, mathematics and Sanskrit teaching. The student enrollment here rose to a peak of 210 in 1885. William Wordsworth (grandson of the poet William Wordsworth), and E.A. Wodehouse (brother of P.G. Wodehouse) were principals of the college during 1862-74 and 1934-39 respectively.[4]
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