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University of Lucknow
लखनऊ विश्वविद्यालय
Seal
Former name
Canning College[1]
MottoLight and Learning
TypePublic
Established25 November 1920; 103 years ago (25 November 1920)
FounderMohammad Ali Mohammad Khan
AccreditationNAAC
Academic affiliations
Budget₹137 crore (US$16 million)
ChancellorGovernor of Uttar Pradesh
Vice-ChancellorAlok Kumar Rai[2]
Students20,472[3]
Undergraduates10,776[3]
Postgraduates6,280[3]
Location
Lucknow
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India

26°50′48″N 80°56′46″E / 26.8467°N 80.9462°E / 26.8467; 80.9462
CampusUrban, Old Campus 225 acres (91 ha), New Campus 75 acres (30 ha)
Language
  • Hindi
  • English
  • Urdu
  • Awadhi
Colors  Red   Gold   Blue
Websitewww.lkouniv.ac.in
University of Lucknow is located in Uttar Pradesh
University of Lucknow
Location in Uttar Pradesh

The University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is a public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. the University of Lucknow is one of the oldest government owned institutions of higher education in India.[citation needed] 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. It is also the only public university of the state to offer both on-campus and online programmes of study.

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 in five districts: Lucknow, Raebareli, Hardoi, Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri.[4][better source needed] The university is opening a third campus in Sitapur district where vocational and skill development courses will be offered.[5]

The University of Lucknow is the only state university of Uttar Pradesh to be awarded "Category-I" university status by the UGC for excellence in teaching and research. It is also the first public university in the State of Uttar Pradesh to be accredited with A++ status by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.[6][7]

History

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The idea of starting a world class University at Lucknow was first put forward by Raja Sir Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan, Khan Bahadur, K.C.I.E. of Mahmudabad, who contributed an article to the columns of "The Pioneer'', urging the foundation of a University at Lucknow. A little later Sir Harcourt Butler, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces, and his well-known interest in all matters under his jurisdiction, specially in matters educational, gave fresh life and vigour to the proposal. 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 November, 10, 1919.

Raja Mahmudabad (seated, center) with leaders of the Aligarh Movement.

At this meeting Sir Harcourt Butler, who was in the chair, outlined the proposed scheme for the new university. A discussion followed, and it was resolved that Lucknow University should be a Unitary, Teaching, and Residential University of the kind recommended by the Calcutta University Mission, 1919, and should consist of Faculties of Arts, including Oriental Studies, Science, Medicine, Law, etc. A number of other resolutions was also passed and six sub-committees were formed, five of them to consider questions connected with the University and one to consider the arrangements for providing Intermediate Education. These sub-committees met during the months of November and December, 1919, and January, 1920; and the reports of their meetings were laid before a second Conference of the General Committee at Lucknow on January 26, 1920; their proceedings were considered and discussed, and the reports of five of the sub-committees were, subject to certain amendments, confirmed. The question of incorporation of the Medical College in the University, however, was for the time being left open for expression of opinion. At the close of the Conference donations of one lakh each from the Raja of Mahmudabad and Jahangirabad were announced.

The resolutions of the first Conference together with the recommendations of the sub-committees as confirmed at the second Conference were laid before a meeting of the Allahabad University on March 12, 1920, and it was decided to appoint a sub-committee to consider them and report to the Senate. The report of the sub-committee was considered at an extraordinary meeting of the Senate on August 7, 1920, at which the Chancellor presided, and the scheme was generally approved. In the meantime the difficulty of incorporating the Medical College in the University had been removed. During the month of April 1920, Mr. C.F. de la Fosse, the then Director of Public Instruction, United Provinces, drew up a Draft Bill for the establishment of the Lucknow University which was introduced in the Legislative Council on August 12, 1920. It was then referred to a Select Committee which suggested a number of amendments, the most important being the liberalising of the constitution of the various University bodies and the inclusion of a Faculty of Commerce; this Bill, in an amended form, was passed by the Council on October 8, 1920. The Lucknow University Act, No. V of 1920, received the assent of the Lieutenant-Governor on November 1, and of the Governor-General on November 25, 1920.

The Court of the University was constituted in March, 1921, and the first meeting of the Court was held on March 21, 1921, at which the Chancellor presided. The other University authorities such as the Executive Council, the Academic Council, and Faculties came into existence in August and September, 1921. Other Committees and Boards, both statutory and otherwise, were constituted in course of time.

On July 17, 1921, the University undertook teaching -- both formal and informal. Teaching in the Faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, and Law was being done in the Canning College and teaching in the Faculty of Medicine in the King George's Medical College and Hospital. The Canning College was handed over to the University on July 1, 1922, although previous to this date the buildings, equipment, staff, etc., belonging to the Canning College had been ungrudgingly placed at the disposal of the University for the purposes of teaching and residence. The King George's Medical College and the King George's Hospital were transferred by the Government to the University on the March 1, 1921.

The different parts of the Lucknow University were formed in different stages and the people were lucky enough to get this world class university in a very well designed manner.The following three Colleges provided the nucleus for the establishment of the University (and are known as the constituent colleges of the university):

The provided structural as well as educational and administrational help for the establishment of the university.[8]All these three colleges were the leading educational institutions of Lucknow at that point of time.

This was a rich inheritance for the new-born University in 1920, both materially and intellectually, and it brought with it also the richest of all heritages "a fine tradition of some fifty-five years in the case of the Canning College and some nine years in the case of the King George's Medical College." To this the generous taluqadars of Oudh added an endowment of nearly thirty lakhs. The support from Sir Harcourt Butler's Government was strong and hearty. Since then the Government of the United Provinces has annually contributed a substantial share towards the maintenance of the University.

Vice-chancellors of University of Lucknow

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The vice-chancellors[9] of University of Lucknow are as follows.

# Name Photo Took office Left office Ref
1 Dr. Gyanendra Nath Chakraborty 1920 1926 [10]
2 Dr. M B Cameron 1926 1930
3 Pt. Jagat Narain Mulla 1930 1932
4 Dr. R P Paranjape 1932 1938
5 Sri S M Habibullah 1938 1941
6 Raja Maharaj Singh 1941 1941
7 Lt. Col. Raja Visheshwar Dayal Seth 1941 1947
8 Narendra Deva Portrait of Acharya Nand Dev 1947 1951
9 Acharya Jugal Kishore 1951 1955
10 Radhakamal Mukerjee 1955 1958
11 Prof. K.A.S Iyer 1958 1960
12 Prof. Kali Prasad 1960 1961 [11]
13 Sri Randhir Singh 1961 -
14 Dr. A.Vitthal Rao 1961 1968 [12]
15 Dr. Makund Behari Lal 1968 1971
16 Dr. Gopal Tripathi 1971 1973
17 Sri Ashok Kumar Mustafi 1973 1975
18 Dr. Rajendra Vir  Singh 1975 1979
19 Dr. Girija Shankar Mishra 1978 1979
20 Dr. Girija Prasad Pandey 1976 -
21 Dr. Radha Prasad Agarwal 1981 1982
22 Dr. Girija Prasad Pandey 1981 -
23 Dr. Ratan Shankar Mishra 1982 1985
24 Dr. Shambhu Nath Jha 1985 1986
25 Dr. Sheetla Prasad Nagendra 1986 1989
26 Dr. Hari Krishna Awasthi 1989 1992
27 Prof. Mahendra Singh Sodha 1992 1995
28 Prof. Suraj Prasad Singh 1995 1997
29 Prof. Ramesh Chandra 1997 1998
30 Prof. K K Kaul 1998 - [13]
31 Prof. Roop Rekha Verma 1988 1999
32 Prof. Devendra Pratap Singh 1999 2002
33 Prof. Shiv Bahadur Singh 2002 2005
34 Prof. Ram Prakash Singh 2005 2008 [14]
35 Prof. Ajaib Singh Brar 2008 2009
36 Prof. Upendra Nath Dwivedi 2009 -
37 Prof. Manoj Kumar Mishra 2009 2012
38 Mr. Gopabandhu Patnaik 2012 2013 [15]
39 Prof. S. B. Nimse 2013 2016
40 Prof S.P. Singh 2016 2019
41 Prof. Alok Kumar Rai 2019 Incumbent [16][17]

Campus

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University of Lucknow, founded in 1920.
Old Campus Of Lucknow University

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.[18] 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. [19]

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.[20][21] Kailash Hall and Nivedita Hall can house nearly 600 female students.[20] 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.[22]

Organisation and Administration

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Faculties

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Faculty of Arts
Ancient Indian History and Archaeology Anthropology Arabic Defence Studies
Economics English and Modern European Languages Geography Hindi and Modern Indian Language
Home Science Journalism and Mass Communication Jyotir Vigyan Library and Information Science
Linguistics Medieval and Modern Indian History Oriental Studies in Arabic and Persian Oriental Studies in Sanskrit
Persian Philosophy Physical Education Political Science
Psychology Public Administration Sanskrit and Prakrit Language Social Work
Sociology Urdu Western History
Faculty of Management Studies
Management Sciences
Faculty of Commerce[23]
Applied Economics[24] Commerce
Faculty of Education
Education
Faculty of Fine Arts
Commercial Arts Fine Arts Sculpture
Faculty of Law[25]
Law
Faculty of Sciences (FoS)
Biochemistry Botany Chemistry Computer Science
Environmental science (under Botany) Geology Mathematics and Astronomy Microbiology (under Botany)
Physics Statistics Zoology
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Applied Science & Humanities Electrical Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering Mechanical Engineering
Electronic and Communication Engineering Civil Engineering
Faculty of Yoga and Alternative Medicine[26]
Yoga[27] Naturopathy[28]
Faculty of Ayurveda[29]
Ayurveda
Faculty of Unani[30]
Unani
Faculty of Abhinavgupt Institute of Aesthetics and Shaiva Philosophy
Abhinavgupt Institute of Aesthetics and Shaiva Philosophy

Centres and Institutes

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  • Tourism Studies
  • 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 of Indian Diaspora and Cultural Studies
  • Centre for Cultural Texts, Records & Translation of Indian Literatures
  • Centre of Online, Open and Distance Learning
  • Institute of Human Consciousnes & Yogic Sciences
  • Food Processing and Technology
  • Center for Advanced Studies in Social Work
  • Mass Communication in Science & Technology[31][third-party source needed]
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences[32][third-party source needed]
  • Advanced Molecular Genetics & Infectious Diseases[33][third-party source needed]

Academics

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Rankings

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The NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) ranked it 23rd in Law and 97th overall in India in 2024.[34]

University rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2022)[35]197
NIRF (Overall) (2023)[36]115
NIRF (Overall) (2024)[37]97
Law – India
NIRF (2024)[38]23
India Today (2020)[39]10


Notable alumni

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Main page: Category:University of Lucknow alumni

Politics

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Education and science

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Government

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Literature

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  • 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

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Others

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See also

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References

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