Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is an Autonomous University located in
Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...
, India. The university is named after
Bhimrao Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly of India, Constit ...
, Indian scholar, social reformer, and the architect of the
Indian Constitution
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.
Institute of Engineering and Technology
The Institute of Engineering and Technology Khandari, Agra (I.E.T. Khandari, Agra), situated at the Khandari campus in the city of Agra, was established in 1998 and is the engineering institute of the university.
Institute of Social Sciences
The
Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), Agra is situated at Paliwal campus in university premises.
Notable alumni
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Charan Singh
Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.'
Charan S ...
, former
Prime Minister of India
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...
, former
Prime Minister of India
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Mulayam Singh Yadav
Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician, a socialist figure and the founder of the Samajwadi Party. In the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as ...
, former CM
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Santosh Gangwar
Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is an Indian politician and the former Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament (16th Lok Sabha), f ...
,
Chairperson, Committee on public undertakings
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Dronamraju Krishna Rao
Dronamraju Krishna Rao (14 January 1937 – 3 December 2020) was an Indian-born geneticist and president of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Texas. He was born in Pithapuram, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. One focus of hi ...
, geneticist
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Ganesh Prasad Pandey, organic chemist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Hirdaya Behari Mathur
Hirdaya Behari Mathur (1928–1980) was an Indian physical chemist and the director of Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment, Kanpur. He was known for his studies on radioactive isotopes and solid state diffusion o ...
, physical chemist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Hridyanath Kunzru
Hridya Nath Kunzru (1 October 1887– 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a m ...
, Freedom Fighter, First National Commissioner of
Bharat Scouts and Guides
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* Bharat (term), the name for India in various Indian languages
** Bharata Khanda, the Sanskrit name for the Indian subcontinent (or South Asia)
* Bharata, the name of several legendary figures or groups:
** Bha ...
& first President of the
Children's Film Society
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.
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Javed Agrewala
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, molecular biologist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Manapurathu Verghese George, photochemist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Om Dutt Gulati, pharmacologist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
and
B. C. Roy laureate
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Shyam Sunder Kapoor, nuclear physicist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Virendra Singh, theoretical physicist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Y. D. Sharma, molecular biologist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Gopal Krishna, radio astronomer,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...
laureate
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Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav (28 August 1929 – 28 October 2013) was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature.
He edited the literary magazine ''HANS'', which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased ...
, pioneer of the Hindi literary movement
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Aziz Qureshi
Aziz Qureshi (born 24 April 1941) is an Indian politician and a senior Indian National Congress leader of mixed Arab-Pathan Muslim ethnoreligious and Urdu-speaking linguistic background from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
He had previously served as 1 ...
, former governor
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Shafiqur Rahman Barq, MP (Uttar pradesh)
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Ramakant Yadav, ex-VC of
Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences
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Dev Swarup, VC of
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University
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Ram Gopal Yadav
Ram Gopal Yadav (born 29 June 1946) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is the Secretary-General of the Samajwadi Party and the Member of Parliament (MP) in Rajya Sabha, since 2008. Yadav also served as Lok Sabha MP of Sambhal from ...
, MP (Rajya Sabha)
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Dhatri Saran Mathur, I.C.S and Chief Justice of
Allahabad High Court
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Devendra Singh Yadav, former MP
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Ajit Doval, Current National Security Advisor to the
Prime Minister of India
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, with the precedence of a Cabinet Minister
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H. N. Kunzru
Hridya Nath Kunzru (1 October 1887– 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a m ...
,
Indian freedom fighter
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*
Raj Babbar
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, Indian film actor and politician
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Ibn-e-Safi, Urdu-language novelist, author of
Jasoosi Duniya series.
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Narinder Singh Kapany, Physicist known as 'Father of Fibre Optics', and
Padma Vibhushan
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awardee
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Rekha Dikshit, former judge of
Allahabad High Court
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Universities in Uttar Pradesh
Universities and colleges in Agra
Educational institutions established in 1927
1927 establishments in India