Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute In Pune
History:-
The Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune is the third oldest Educational Institute in India. The Hindoo College was started on 6th October, 1821 by the Bombay Presidency Government at the initiative of its Governor, Mountstuart Elphinstone by using the Dakshina Fund, which was started by Khanderao Dabhade, a Maratha Sardar and continued by the Peshwas for propagating Sanskrit studies.
This College grew from strength to strength and has emerged as a foremost Institute in the world of higher learning and research. It was renamed as the Poona College on 7th June, 1851 and later as the Deccan College in October 1864. The Deccan College was shifted to the new campus covering an area of 115 acres near Yerawada on 23rd March 1868. With the help of a muneficent grant of Rs. 1 lakh donated by Sir Jamsetji Jejeebhoy, the main building of the College was built in beautiful Gothic architecture. The Deccan College has, since then, produced a galaxy of students who rose to positions of excellence in various walks of life. They include Sir Ramlkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, the celebrated Indologist, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the great nationalist leader, Gurudev Ramchandra Dattratreya Ranade, the eminent philosopher, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, the great social reformer, Vishwanath Kashinath Rajawade, the famous historian, Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, the famous Indian medical practitioner who rendered yeoman service in China, etc.
The College was closed down by the British Government in 1934, but because of the efforts of the past students and the public spirited citizens, it was reopened on 17th August 1939 as Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, by the Transfer Deed passed by the Hon'ble Bombay High Court. The Past Students Association of this University is growing in strength and actively participates in the development of the University.
As per the Transfer Deed, the State Government was asked to run the Institute in perpetuity. Subsequently, two bodies came into existence - The Deccan College Poona Trust, as the custodian of the landed property and the Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute to take care of the academic activities of the Institute.
In the next half century, the University, apart from giving instruction to Postgraduate students and producing galaxy of Ph.D. Dissertations, carried out outstanding research in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Linguistics, Medieval and Maratha History, Sociology, Anthropology and Sanskrit studies. Eminent scholars such as the late Professors S. M. Katre, H. D. Sankalia, Irawati Karve, C. R. Sankaran, T. S. Shejwalkar, and their colleagues and successors such as Professors A. M. Ghatage, M. A. Mehendale, S. B. Deo, M. K. Dhavalikar, etc.
Archaeology Museum:-
The Department of Archaeology, established (1939) and nurtured by the eminent archaeologist Padma Bhushan H.D. Sankalia, is the largest Department of Archaeology in Asia. Deccan College Archaeology Museum (DCAM) was conceptualised and started for the Masters and PhD students of our University by the collection of artefacts by Prof. Sankalia and Research Scholars from 1939 onwards. The artefacts were first kept for display in the main administrative building in the year 1940. With excavations in every part of India from the year 1942, Deccan College started accumulating enormous amount of cultural material from Prehistory to Medieval period; and with ethnographic expeditions and scientific approaches to excavated material it has, also been accumulating lot of ethnographic and sciences in archaeology related material. And all these are the core of the Museum at Deccan College. The department has systematically explored numerous sites and monuments and excavated nearly 100 archaeological sites since then, a repository attached to the museum stores these excavated and explored materials for any future research.
In 1962 the present building of the Department of Archaeology, was constructed and the first floor (covering an area of about 15,500 sq. ft) was meticulously, designed to make various galleries of the museum for displaying objects of the human past. Here one may visualise at a glance the development of material culture-houses, tools and weapons, pottery, ornaments and burial practices right from Early Stone Age up to Medieval Period. The museum has seven galleries each devoted to various branch of archaeology (i.e. Stone Age, Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Early Historic, Sculpture, Epigraphy and Numismatic, Ethnoarchaeology) and H.D. Sankalia Memorial gallery.
Establishment and Brief History:-
The Maratha History Museum-cum-Archives of the Deccan College contains important historical records of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, useful for a student of Maratha history. The Museum is the legacy of the late Rao Bahadur Parasnis of Satara, deeply interested in Maratha history, he collected varied historical materials from different parts of Maharashtra and other regions of India and some foreign countries. His personal museum at Satara was one of the early efforts towards the collection and systematic arrangement of original historical sources of Maratha history. The museum was opened at Satara in 1925. It was later purchased by the Government of Bombay and was named as Satara Historical Museum. The Deccan College was converted into a Post-graduate and Research Institute in August 1939. With a view to facilitating original research in Maratha history, all the old historical documents and antiquities from the Satara Historical Museum were transferred to the college. This was the foundation of the Maratha History Museum of Deccan College. Between 1939 and 2010 some new additions were made to the archival as well as antiquity section.
In 1958, ruler of Maratha princely state at Jamkhindi in modern Karnataka state donated his private historical collection at Jamkhindi to the Maratha History Museum.
Thus the Museum has at present two main sections:
Archival Section
Museum Section of the Jamkhindi Collection.
The Library of Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University) is a very important component of the University and has a special place in the world of higher learning and research, both at the national and international levels. It is a unique library having collections mainly in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient Indian History, Medieval History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Sanskrit, Philosophy and Religion. It has inherited a rare collection of books from the old Deccan College whose origins go back to 1821. Now it has a collection of more than one lakh seventy thousand documents. The Institute's library occupies a total carpet area of about 42,000 square feet, with spacious stack-rooms, reference and reading rooms and 40 independent study rooms for research scholars. The first floor houses periodicals and reference section with two spacious reading rooms and the ground floor houses the administrative wing (acquisition section and circulation counter), a reading room and two stack rooms for books.
VISION :
To support the University's vision, by bringing people and information together in innovative ways.
MISSION:
To support the mission of the University, by providing the library users information services by way of instruction, research, and curricular offerings through updated Library resources and services.
OBJECTIVES:
To acquire, organize and update the library collection to support the teaching-learning and research programmes.
To provide instruction and assistance in the effective use of learning resources / services.
Contact Us:-
Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute
Address: Yerawada, Pune, Maharashtra 411006
Phone: 020 2651 3204
History:-
The Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune is the third oldest Educational Institute in India. The Hindoo College was started on 6th October, 1821 by the Bombay Presidency Government at the initiative of its Governor, Mountstuart Elphinstone by using the Dakshina Fund, which was started by Khanderao Dabhade, a Maratha Sardar and continued by the Peshwas for propagating Sanskrit studies.
This College grew from strength to strength and has emerged as a foremost Institute in the world of higher learning and research. It was renamed as the Poona College on 7th June, 1851 and later as the Deccan College in October 1864. The Deccan College was shifted to the new campus covering an area of 115 acres near Yerawada on 23rd March 1868. With the help of a muneficent grant of Rs. 1 lakh donated by Sir Jamsetji Jejeebhoy, the main building of the College was built in beautiful Gothic architecture. The Deccan College has, since then, produced a galaxy of students who rose to positions of excellence in various walks of life. They include Sir Ramlkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, the celebrated Indologist, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the great nationalist leader, Gurudev Ramchandra Dattratreya Ranade, the eminent philosopher, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, the great social reformer, Vishwanath Kashinath Rajawade, the famous historian, Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, the famous Indian medical practitioner who rendered yeoman service in China, etc.
The College was closed down by the British Government in 1934, but because of the efforts of the past students and the public spirited citizens, it was reopened on 17th August 1939 as Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, by the Transfer Deed passed by the Hon'ble Bombay High Court. The Past Students Association of this University is growing in strength and actively participates in the development of the University.
As per the Transfer Deed, the State Government was asked to run the Institute in perpetuity. Subsequently, two bodies came into existence - The Deccan College Poona Trust, as the custodian of the landed property and the Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute to take care of the academic activities of the Institute.
In the next half century, the University, apart from giving instruction to Postgraduate students and producing galaxy of Ph.D. Dissertations, carried out outstanding research in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Linguistics, Medieval and Maratha History, Sociology, Anthropology and Sanskrit studies. Eminent scholars such as the late Professors S. M. Katre, H. D. Sankalia, Irawati Karve, C. R. Sankaran, T. S. Shejwalkar, and their colleagues and successors such as Professors A. M. Ghatage, M. A. Mehendale, S. B. Deo, M. K. Dhavalikar, etc.
Archaeology Museum:-
The Department of Archaeology, established (1939) and nurtured by the eminent archaeologist Padma Bhushan H.D. Sankalia, is the largest Department of Archaeology in Asia. Deccan College Archaeology Museum (DCAM) was conceptualised and started for the Masters and PhD students of our University by the collection of artefacts by Prof. Sankalia and Research Scholars from 1939 onwards. The artefacts were first kept for display in the main administrative building in the year 1940. With excavations in every part of India from the year 1942, Deccan College started accumulating enormous amount of cultural material from Prehistory to Medieval period; and with ethnographic expeditions and scientific approaches to excavated material it has, also been accumulating lot of ethnographic and sciences in archaeology related material. And all these are the core of the Museum at Deccan College. The department has systematically explored numerous sites and monuments and excavated nearly 100 archaeological sites since then, a repository attached to the museum stores these excavated and explored materials for any future research.
In 1962 the present building of the Department of Archaeology, was constructed and the first floor (covering an area of about 15,500 sq. ft) was meticulously, designed to make various galleries of the museum for displaying objects of the human past. Here one may visualise at a glance the development of material culture-houses, tools and weapons, pottery, ornaments and burial practices right from Early Stone Age up to Medieval Period. The museum has seven galleries each devoted to various branch of archaeology (i.e. Stone Age, Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Early Historic, Sculpture, Epigraphy and Numismatic, Ethnoarchaeology) and H.D. Sankalia Memorial gallery.
Establishment and Brief History:-
The Maratha History Museum-cum-Archives of the Deccan College contains important historical records of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, useful for a student of Maratha history. The Museum is the legacy of the late Rao Bahadur Parasnis of Satara, deeply interested in Maratha history, he collected varied historical materials from different parts of Maharashtra and other regions of India and some foreign countries. His personal museum at Satara was one of the early efforts towards the collection and systematic arrangement of original historical sources of Maratha history. The museum was opened at Satara in 1925. It was later purchased by the Government of Bombay and was named as Satara Historical Museum. The Deccan College was converted into a Post-graduate and Research Institute in August 1939. With a view to facilitating original research in Maratha history, all the old historical documents and antiquities from the Satara Historical Museum were transferred to the college. This was the foundation of the Maratha History Museum of Deccan College. Between 1939 and 2010 some new additions were made to the archival as well as antiquity section.
In 1958, ruler of Maratha princely state at Jamkhindi in modern Karnataka state donated his private historical collection at Jamkhindi to the Maratha History Museum.
Thus the Museum has at present two main sections:
Archival Section
Museum Section of the Jamkhindi Collection.
The Library of Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University) is a very important component of the University and has a special place in the world of higher learning and research, both at the national and international levels. It is a unique library having collections mainly in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient Indian History, Medieval History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Sanskrit, Philosophy and Religion. It has inherited a rare collection of books from the old Deccan College whose origins go back to 1821. Now it has a collection of more than one lakh seventy thousand documents. The Institute's library occupies a total carpet area of about 42,000 square feet, with spacious stack-rooms, reference and reading rooms and 40 independent study rooms for research scholars. The first floor houses periodicals and reference section with two spacious reading rooms and the ground floor houses the administrative wing (acquisition section and circulation counter), a reading room and two stack rooms for books.
VISION :
To support the University's vision, by bringing people and information together in innovative ways.
MISSION:
To support the mission of the University, by providing the library users information services by way of instruction, research, and curricular offerings through updated Library resources and services.
OBJECTIVES:
To acquire, organize and update the library collection to support the teaching-learning and research programmes.
To provide instruction and assistance in the effective use of learning resources / services.
Contact Us:-
Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute
Address: Yerawada, Pune, Maharashtra 411006
Phone: 020 2651 3204
