University of Lucknow

The University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is a public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Founded in 1920, the University of Lucknow is one of the oldest government owned institutions of higher education in India. LU's main campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a second campus at Jankipuram.

LU is a teaching, residential and affiliating university, organized into more than 500 colleges and 17 institutes, located throughout the city and other surrounding areas. The University has jurisdiction over colleges of 4 districts: Raebareli, Hardoi, Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri. The university is opening a third campus in Sitapur district where vocational and skill development courses will be offered.

The University of Lucknow is the only Public University in the State of Uttar Pradesh to be accredited with A++ status by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

History

The idea of establishing a university at Lucknow was conceived by Raja Sir Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan, Khan Bahadur, K.C.I.E. of Mahmudabad. He contributed an article in then popular newspaper, '' The Pioneer'', urging the foundation of a university at Lucknow. Later Sir Harcourt Butler was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces, and was also made Mohammad Khan's well-known interest in all matters, specially in educational matters. 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 10 November 1919. At this meeting Sir Harcourt Butler, being the chairman of the committee, outlined the proposed scheme for the new university.

Eventually, The King George's Medical College (today's King George's Medical University), The Canning College, The Isabella Thoburn College provided structural as well as educational and administrational help for the establishment of the university.

Campus

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 Central Library of the university known as the Tagore Library 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. 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 university also provides residential facilities to teachers, students and non-teaching staff. There are overall 17 hostels for boys and girls in the university. Kailash Hall and Nivedita Hall can house nearly 600 female students. 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.

Organisation and administration

Faculties

Faculty of Arts
* Departments
** Ancient Indian History and Archaeology
** Anthropology
** Arabic and Arab Culture
** Asian Culture
** Defence and Strategic Studies
** Economics
** English and Modern European Languages
**Education (Pedagogy)
**Forensic science (Running under the authority of the department of Anthropology).
** Geography
** Hindi and Modern Indian Languages (Bangla, Tamil, Marathi)
** Home Science
** Journalism & Mass Communication
**Jyotir Vigyan (Astrology)
** Library & Information Science
** Linguistics
** Medieval & Modern Indian History (MIH)
** Persian and Oriental Persian
** Philosophy
** Political Science
** Population Studies
** Public Administration
** Psychology
** Sociology
** Social Work
** Sanskrit and Prakrit language
**Tourism and Travel Management
** Urdu
** Western History
** Women's & Gender Studies

Faculty of Commerce
* Departments
** Commerce (accounting, finance, marketing & management)
** Applied Economics
** Business Administration

Faculty of Education
* Department
** Education, Research & Development
** Physical Education & Sports Management

Faculty of Law
* Department
** Law

Faculty of Science
* Departments
** Anthropology
** Zoology
** Botany
** Chemistry
** Geology
** Physics
** Mathematics
**Astronomy
** Pharmaceutical Chemistry
**Biochemistry
** Computer Science
** Statistics

Faculty of Engineering
* Departments
** Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)
** Civil Engineering (CE)
** Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
** Electrical Engineering (EE)
** Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Faculty of Fine Arts
* Departments
** Fine arts
** Commercial art
** Art & Craft
** Graphics Design

Faculty of Yoga and Alternative Medicine

* Departments
** Yoga
** Naturopathy

Faculty of Ayurveda
* Department of Ayurveda

Faculty of Unani

* Department of Unani

Institute and centres

* Management Science
* Tourism Studies
* Development Studies
* Urban Studies
* Women Studies
* Food Processing and Technology
*Mass Communication in Science & Technology
*Pharmaceutical Sciences
*Advanced Molecular Genetics & Infectious Diseases

Academics

Rankings

Notable alumni

Politics

* Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951) - politician, columnist, former Union Minister, Governor of Kerala
* Ashutosh Tandon (born 1960) - cabinet minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh
* Atul Kumar Anjan, National Secretary of Communist Party of India
* Brajesh Pathak (born 1964) - former MP, currently Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
* Chandrapal Singh Yadav (born 1959) - Rajya Sabha Member
* Chaudhary Dilip Singh Chaturvedi (born 1932), former MLA, Bhind, MP; former LU President 1955-56
* Dinesh Sharma (born 1964) - Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
* Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed (1927-2012) Pakistani politician, author, former Federal Minister for Industries and Production
* Harish Rawat (born 1948) - former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
* K. C. Pant (1931-2012) - former Minister of Defence
* Lalji Tondon (1935-2020) - 22nd Governor of Madhya Pradesh, 28th Governor of Bihar
*Pushkar Singh Dhami (born 1975) - Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
* P.L Punia (born 1945) - Member of Rajya Sabha
*Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Raja Bhaiya) (born 1969) - MLA
* Ram Govind Chaudhary (born 1946) - Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
* Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) - 9th President of India
* Shivpal Singh Yadav (born 1955) - politician,MLA, Former-Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh
* Surjit Singh Barnala (1925-2017) - former Governor of Tamil Nadu
* Sajjad Zaheer (1899-1973) - founding member of the Communist Party of Pakistan
* Syed Sibtey Razi (born 1939) - former Governor of Jharkhand
* Vijaya Raje Scindia (1919-2001) - late Rajmata of Gwalior
* Zafar Ali Naqvi (born 1948) - Member of Parliament
* Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) - third president of India
* Rajpal Kashyap – Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

Education and science

* S. P. Chakravarti (1904-1981) - father of Electronics and Telecommunications engineering education in India.
* Sanduk Ruit (born 1954) - founder of Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
* Harish Poptani, professor and chair of the center for Preclinical Imaging at the University of Liverpool
* Inder Verma (born 1947) - professor of Molecular Biology
* Atul Kumar, chemist
* C.M. Naim (born 1936) - writer and academic
* Vinod Bhakuni (1962-2011) - biophysicist
* Girjesh Govil (1940-2021) - molecular biophysicist
* Shyam Swarup Agarwal (1941-2013) - immunologist
* Rajendra Prasad, professor of Pulmonary Medicine
* Ravi Kant (born 1956) - professor of surgery
* Raj Kumar (born 1959) - professor of neurosurgery
* Ritu Karidhal (born 1975) - ISRO scientist
* Furqan Qamar (born 1960) - Professor of Management

Government

* Brajendranath De (1852-1932) - early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service
* Isha Basant Joshi (1908-?) - India's first female IAS officer
* R N Kao (1918-2002) - Civil Servant, Founder and First director of R&AW

Literature

* 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

* Adarsh Sein Anand (1936-2017) - former Chief Justice of India and former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission
* Prafulla Chandra Pant (born 1952) - Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
* Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi (1899-1959) - lawyer and politician
* Mahendra Pal Singh (born 1940) - law scholar
* S.P. Singh (1937-2020) - jurist

Others

* Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993) - founder of Chinmaya Mission
* V. Mohini Giri (born 1938) - social activist, Padma Bhushan
* Seema Mustafa (born 1955) - journalist
* Manoj Joshi, journalist
* Hashim Akhtar Naqvi (born 1948) - Indian calligrapher
* Suresh Raina (born 1986) - Indian cricketer
* Anup Jalota (born 1976) - lyricist and playback singer
* Vartika Singh - Miss Diva 2019 and represented India at 68th edition of the Miss Universe pageant.

See also

* University Ground (University of Lucknow)

References

External links

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