DU (Delhi University) is celebrating its 100th foundation year. Let’s look at the journey of Delhi University through old historical photographs.
Image 1: Gandhiji and Kasturba Gandhi at St. Stephen College in 1915Image 2: St. Stephen College in 1929-30, Image 3: Lord Mountbatten proposed to his wife Edwina for marriage in the present day VC’s office of DU. Those days the building was called Vice-Regal LodgeImage 4: A scene from the inauguration of Indraprastha College in Alipur House on February 7, 1939 by her Excellency Vicerine Lady Linlithgow with the Principal Kalawati Gupta.Image 5: The attire of students of Indraprastha College for Women, in the 1930’s.Image 6: Student of DU rally passing through Chandini Chowk in the early 1940’s during Quit India Movement. Image 7: Old campus of SRCC (Shri Ram College of Commerce) in Darjaganj, in the year 1954.Image 8: Students of Indraprastha College participating in swimming pool construction work, in the year 1940. Image 9: Students of Indraprastha College performing a play on 13 March 1948.Image 10: Students in the courtyard of Miranda House college, 1954-55.Image 11: Students of Miranda House wearing saris and western attire during 1950’s.
Image 12: Nehru, and VKRV Rao in Statistical Workshop, of D SchoolImage 13: Nehru Innougrating Main Building of D School in the year 1956. Image 14: The convocation of the Delhi School of Economics in 1950-51Image 15: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Museum and Archives Section of Indraprastha College for Women.Image 16: Hindu College Building, DelhiImage 17: Building of St. Stephen College in the year 1952Image 18: Radhakrishnan and Sir Shri Ram at SRCC on 31 Jan 1954. Sir Shri Ram was founder of SRCC. Image 19: Sir Shri Ram putting the Foundation Stone of LSR College in 1954Image 20: Indira Gandhi, Sir Shri Ram and Kamlendu Mati Shah at LSRImage 21: Women students at Miranda House during 1950sImage 22: Meeting Hall of Miranda House College during 1950sImage 23: Student Elections at Miranda House Collage, during 1954-55Image 24: Sports Day at Miranda House College. Image 25: Miranda House Collage during the Sports Day of the year 1952.Image 26: Women students in Physics Laboratory at Kirori Mal College, 1961.Image 27: Women students in the library of Kiroli Mal College, 1961.image 28: Women students at the cycle stand of Kirori Mal College, 1961Image 29: Jawaharlal Nehru at SRCC
DU: Post-Nehru Era
Image 30: Indira Gandhi at Miranda House College Image 31: Indira Gandhi at South CampusImage 32: Former State Counsellor of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi with her college mates at Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR). 1968Image 33: students at Lady Irwin College in February, 1971. The second oldest women’s college of Delhi University,Image 34: Radhakrishnan at SRCCImage 35: SRCCImage 36: Innaugration of DUSU by Morarji Desai, while office bearers Vijay Goel(President), Arun Jaitely (Former President), Rajas Sharma are present. Image 37: Student protest in Delhi against the shooting of satyagrahis in Goa by the portuguese in 1955Image 38: Shashi Tharoor at St. Stephen College. Image 39: Students campaigning for the Delhi University elections in 1977.Image 39: Student attire of Quetta DAV School, Nizamuddin, 1977.Image 40: Delhi School of Economics faculty, the early 1980s. (Prannoy Roy, A. L. Nagar, Ashok Lahiri)Image 41: Students of Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) in July 1976.Image 42: Freshers wearing bell bottoms on their first day at Delhi University in the year 1976.Image 43: Miranda House seniors ‘ragging’ a junior in 1983Image 44: Theft at Stephen College led to protest in the year 1985.
Image 45: Ragging in Delhi University during 1991. Image 46: Students await their turn for the personal interview at Delhi University in the year 1994.Image 47: Delhi university in New Delhi on July 18, 1994.Image 48: A student makes her way through a waterlogged stretch inside Lady Irwin College, in September, 1994.Image 49: Students check the first cutoff list at DU in 1995Image 50: Election Campaign in Delhi University during the year 2018. Book 1: Book on Hindu College written by Kavita A. Sharma and W. D. MathurBook 2: A book was written on History of St. Stephen College, Delhi by Ashok JaitlyBook 3: A Bit of Delhi University by Dr. S. S. Rana
