University of Lucknow

The University of Lucknow is a university in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is affiliated to University Grants Commission; Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU); Association of Indian Universities (AIU); Distance Education Council (DEC). Other accreditations include National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC); National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE); Bar Council of India (BCI). It was affiliated to UGC in the year 1921. Most of the courses have an 'Yearly' system, although some of the new courses, like BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) and MBA have opted for a Semester system.

History

The University of Lucknow grew out of the prestigious Canning College, Lucknow,^[1] founded in 1867 by Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee and also grew out of King George's Medical College and Isabella Thoburn College.

Lucknow University was set up as a result of the far-reaching recommendations of the Sadler Commission which had been set up in 1917 to just investigate the "“conditions and prospects of the University of Calcutta".^[2]

The Honorable Raja Sir Muhammad Ali Mohammad Khan of Mahmudabad made a strong plea in the Pioneer for the creation of a separate University at Lucknow which was reinforced by all the Taluqdars of Awadh. Sir Harcourt Butler, the then Lt. Governor of United Provinces gave active support to the idea.

Lucknow University was established in law by the Governor General on November 25, 1920.^[3] Sir Harcourt Butler laid the foundation stone of the University on March 19, 1921, and Dr. Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti became its first vice-chancellor.^[4] On July 17, 1921 classes commenced.^[5]

Early growth

The expansion of the University began with generous support from the Taluqdars and the Government and within twenty five years, the University had established itself as a respected seat of learning in the country and was specially famous for the teaching of English Literature. The famous teachers being Prof Dhurjati Prasad Mukhopadhyay (Economics) , Radhakamal & Radhakumud Mukhopadhyay (History) Professor Nirmal Kumar Sidanth, Birbal Sahni , Laurence Brander, R. R. Sreshta and Ahmed Ali (English). Presently, it is one of the largest universities in India with over 101 affiliated colleges and over 100,000 students.

Notable alumni

Politics

• Shankar Dayal Sharma former President of India
• Surjit Singh Barnala, Governor of Tamil Nadu
• Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand
• Harish Rawat, Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Labour, Government of India
• Zafar Ali Naqvi, Politician, Member of Parliament - India Govt.
• Syed Sajjad Zaheer, Politician, Poet,writer .
• K.C. Pant, former Union Minister and Dy Chairman Planning Commission
• Vijayaraje Scindia, Late Rajmata of Gwalior
• Arif Mohammad Khan, Politician, Columnist, former Union Minister
• Ammar Rizvi, Politician, former Education Minister in UP Government
• Chandra Shekhar Trivedi,Politician
• D.P.Bora, Politician
• Atul Kumar Anjan,Political leader of Leftist orientation

Education and Science

• Dr. Noorul Hasan, Professor in Dept. of Commerce, Shia Post Graduate College, Lucknow. Most famous writer and widely accepted authority on Commerce; who wrote more than 100 most popular and best selling books on different subjects of Commerce for different Universities.
• Dr.Shaheen Parveen, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA (USA)
• Professor Avtar Singh, Author of the bestselling book The law of Contracts, he is the most widely read author on the subject.
• Ahmed Ali (Professor), English novelist, Urdu short story writer,
• Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College, New York
• Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi
• Jagdish Gandhi, educationist, founder of CMS Schools in Lucknow
• Prof R.P.Rastogi, former VC of BHU
• C.M.Naim, writer and academic
• Prof. L.K. Maheshwari, educationist, vice chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

• Dr. Tripta Trivedi, educationist
• Dr. Neeraj Chaubey, astrophysicist and mathematician
• Dean Emeritus Brij Mohan, Louisiana State University
• Dr Atul Kumar, Sr. Scientist CDRI, inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug, Candidate and recipient of OPPI SCIENTIST Excellence AWARD
• Z. U. A. Warsi, Ph.D., noted author and distinguished Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University, pioneer of numerical methods in computational grid generation and an expert in theoretical and computational fluid mechanics.
• S.Zafar HASAN, MS, DSW (Columbia) Dean Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA
• Brij MOHAN, MSW, PhD (Lucknow), DLitt (Hon. Kashi Vidyapith), IABMCP Diplomate, Dean Emeritus, Louisiana State University, USA.
• Prof. Kuldeep Kumar^[6][7], M.Sc. (Statistics), Ph.D. (Univ of Kent, UK), Professor, Bond University, Australia.
• Prof. Ashok Sahai, ^[8] M.Sc., Ph.D. (Statistics), Professor, University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

Government

• Brajendranath De, esq., ICS Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly (1905–10); also Commissioner (Offg.), Burdwan (1905) ^[9]
• Isha Basant Joshi, India's first female IAS officer
• Deepak Upreti , I.A.S.
• Manjulika Gautam, I.A.S.
• Shahnawaz-ur-rahman, I.R.S. Officer
• Dr. Kalpana Dube, I.R.A.S.
• Shri Devesh Mishra, DRM, Agra
• Shri A N Ram, IFS

Literature

• Ahmed Ali, stood first class and First in the order of merit in both B.A.(Hons), 1930 and M.A. English Literature, 1931 and received the White Memorial Gold Medal & scholarship and the Jhallawar Gold Medal; author of Twilight in Delhi, Ocean of Night, Of Rats & Diplomats, The Golden Tradition, Angare, Al-Qur'an: A Contmporary Translation; see education and science above.
• Ali Jawad Zaidi, noted poet, critic, writer, freedom fighter and Padmashri awardee.
• Iftikhar Arif, Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur.
• Kavi Pradeep, noted poet and lyricist.
• Qurratulain Hyder,noted Urdu writer
• Attia Hosain, Author, Journalist first lady graduate from Taluqdar families^[10]
• Anurag Kumar,author of Recalcitrance , the first English novel by a Lucknowite on events of the Great Uprising of 1857 in Lucknow

Judiciary / Law

• Justice Haider Abbas Raza
• Jaipat Singh Jain,Attorney New York
• Saurabh Trivedi, Advocate on Record Supreme Court of India

Corporate Sector

• Nusrat Durrani, Vice President, MTV, New York
• Jayant Krishna, Principal Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services

Cinematographers

• Rajiv Jain

Others

• Swami Chinmayananda, founder of Chinmaya Mission
• Mohini Giri, Women activist
• Vinod Mehta,Journalist
• Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi,Lawyer and Politician
• Ahmed Wasi Broadcaster and Lyricist
• Ashok Bajpai, ex Minister
• S.R. Hashim, economist
• Vijay Upadhyay, Vienna based Opera conductor
• Zafar Ali Naqvi, ex Minister
• Prof Krishna Kumar, Director IIM Kozhikode
• Ahmed Nazir Kidwai, ex Chief Secretary Assam
• Seema Mustafa, journalist
• Shyam Manohar Joshi, writer
• Manoj Joshi, journalist
• [[ Kumar Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Musician & Musicologist ; & Cricket-writer

References

External links

• University of Lucknow official website
• A Cyber Joint for University of Lucknow Alumnae