University of Delhi
Post-Independence Era (1948-1972)

1948:Two colleges on the campus- Hansraj College and Miranda House College were established.


1949:Delhi School of Economics was set-up on the initiative of VKRV Rao with Sir VT Krishnamachari as its first chairman. Delhi University Students Union was inaugurated by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on the 9th of April.


1950: Executive Council while considering GwyGwyer’s resignation, named the University Hall as Gwyer Hall and Rajpur Quarters as Maurice Nagar.Department of Home Science was initiated.


1951: SGTB Khalsa College was founded.


1952: Major amendment to the Delhi University Act- changing it to a teaching and affiliating university.Departments of Hindi, and Political Science were set-up and Deshbandhu College was founded.


1953: Department of Philosophy initiated.


1954: Department of Business Management & Industrial Administration began The University campus got another College- Kirori Mal College.


1955: WUS Health Centre was set up. Department of African Studies was inaugurated by Pandit Nehru on 6th August 1955.


1956: The new building of WUS Health Centre was inaugurated by Dr Radhakrishnan. Founded one more women’s college- Lady Shriram College for Women.


1957: Another department added- Department of Buddhist Studies. PGDAV College established.


1958: The present central library building was inaugurated by then Chancellor Dr S. Radhakrishnan.


1959: Department of Urdu, Sociology, and Geography set-up.The Delhi University Music, Arts and Drama Society (DUMADS) formed.


1960: The Department of Music was instituted in 1960 with the aid of an endowment fund from Sir Shankar Lal Foundation. One more on-campus college for women- Started as Pramila College, then renamed Daulat Ram College after its founder, Daulat Ram Gupta.


1961: The Delhi University Press was set-up. Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, and Institute of Home Economics founded.


1962: The School of Correspondence Courses was established and renamed School of Open Learning in 2004.


1963: Department of Linguistics set-up.


1964: The Delhi University Women’s Association (DUWA) was established by Shrimati Durgabai Deshmukh, wife of the then Vice-Chancellor C.D Deshmukh. Two new departments were established- Department of Psychology and East Asian Studies.


1965: Two more colleges were founded this year- Lakshamibai College and Moti Lal Nehru College (Evening).


1966: Department of Geology was set-up.


1967: Department of Commerce was established.The year saw addition of seven more colleges- Gargi College, Kalindi College, Maitreyi College, Mata Sundri College for Women, Swami Shradhanand College, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, and Nehru Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital.


1968: Departments of Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Electrical Engineering were established. Jesus and Mary College was established.


1969: An evening college and a women’s college added- Shyam Lal College (Evening) and Shyama Prasad Mukherji College.


1970:Vivekananda College was established.


1971: Medical education promoted with the establishment of University College of Medical Sciences. Bharati Mahila College was started, later it became Bharati College.


1972: Golden Jubilee year of the University. The Statute was amended to make the Vice-President of India ex-officio Chancellor of the University. Two new departments - Departments of Homeopathic Medicine and Pharmacy started. Satyawati College and College of Vocational Studies were founded.

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