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Ramjas College
28°41′8.6640″N 77°12′22.9788″E / 28.685740000°N 77.206383000°E
Ramjas College is one of the oldest constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, located in its North Campus in Delhi, India. It was founded by the educationist and philanthropist Rai Kedar Nath with the aim of providing affordable higher education.
Ramjas is one of three founding colleges of the University of Delhi, alongside Hindu College and St. Stephen's College. According to its website, Nath, the college's founder, also played a significant role in the naming of Delhi University.
Founded on 17 January 1917 by the educationist and philanthropist, Rai Kedar Nath, the college was named in memory of his father, Lala Ramjas. In its initial days, the college was solely run by the Ramjas Foundation, an educational society that presently runs 16 schools and other educational institutions across Delhi. Ramjas was upgraded to the degree level under the aegis of University of Delhi when the latter was founded in 1922. Nevertheless, Ramjas Foundation continued to oversee its administration. In 1924, its other branch named Ramjas Intermediate College was opened at Daryaganj and the old college was moved to a new campus at Anand Parbat (then Kala Pahad) near the Serai Rohilla Station about two miles from heart of city. This campus was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi, a good friend of Rai Kedar Nath.[citation needed] However, the college had to cede its campus at Anand Parbat to the British Wireless Experimental Centre during World War II. During the Second World War a group of Ramjas students became active in the Quit India Movement resulting in them being arrested and jailed. Their names are inscribed on a memorial plaque near the college auditorium's entrance. Now almost equal in number, there were only two females out of 161 students in 1942–43 session.
The college relocated to its current location in 1950. Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India inaugurated the present building on 17 January 1951. He even sent his daughters to study here. After the death of Rai Kedarnath, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the architect of Constitution of India and first Minister of Law and Justice of India, acted as the Chairman of Governing Body of Ramjas College. Ramjas had the distinct privilege as the only College in Delhi of having him in its Governing Body. On 12 February 1959, The famous African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. visited the college and made a memorable speech to the students.
In January 2004, the College organised the first-ever Conference of Graduate Students of Economics from the SAARC countries.
Ramjas celebrated its centennial legacy throughout 2016 and completed a 100 years in January 2017. In 2017, India Post issued a postage stamp to commemorate the centenary year of Ramjas college Delhi.
Ramjas College hosts the Ramjas Political Review, which is the ISSN-recognised biannual, peer-reviewed academic research journal run by the undergraduate students of the Department of Political Science. The first issue was released in 2023 as Volume 1(1) with Prathit Singh as the Editor-in-Chief. Further issues, Vol 1(2), 2(1), 2(2), 3(1), have been led by Prem Ansh Sinha as the Editor-in-Chief. Ramjas Political Review has also hosted several renowned academics like Professor Quentin Skinner, Professor Madhavan Palat, Professor SD Muni, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, and authors like Sanjeev Sanyal, Swapan Dasgupta, various politicians, and former foreign secretaries, Amb Maharajakrishna Rasgotra, Amb Shivshankar Menon, and Amb Shyam Saran, where they have been interviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. In such a short span of time, Ramjas Political Review has emerged as a paragon of excellence in the academic circles in the University of Delhi.
Ramjas College
28°41′8.6640″N 77°12′22.9788″E / 28.685740000°N 77.206383000°E
Ramjas College is one of the oldest constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, located in its North Campus in Delhi, India. It was founded by the educationist and philanthropist Rai Kedar Nath with the aim of providing affordable higher education.
Ramjas is one of three founding colleges of the University of Delhi, alongside Hindu College and St. Stephen's College. According to its website, Nath, the college's founder, also played a significant role in the naming of Delhi University.
Founded on 17 January 1917 by the educationist and philanthropist, Rai Kedar Nath, the college was named in memory of his father, Lala Ramjas. In its initial days, the college was solely run by the Ramjas Foundation, an educational society that presently runs 16 schools and other educational institutions across Delhi. Ramjas was upgraded to the degree level under the aegis of University of Delhi when the latter was founded in 1922. Nevertheless, Ramjas Foundation continued to oversee its administration. In 1924, its other branch named Ramjas Intermediate College was opened at Daryaganj and the old college was moved to a new campus at Anand Parbat (then Kala Pahad) near the Serai Rohilla Station about two miles from heart of city. This campus was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi, a good friend of Rai Kedar Nath.[citation needed] However, the college had to cede its campus at Anand Parbat to the British Wireless Experimental Centre during World War II. During the Second World War a group of Ramjas students became active in the Quit India Movement resulting in them being arrested and jailed. Their names are inscribed on a memorial plaque near the college auditorium's entrance. Now almost equal in number, there were only two females out of 161 students in 1942–43 session.
The college relocated to its current location in 1950. Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India inaugurated the present building on 17 January 1951. He even sent his daughters to study here. After the death of Rai Kedarnath, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the architect of Constitution of India and first Minister of Law and Justice of India, acted as the Chairman of Governing Body of Ramjas College. Ramjas had the distinct privilege as the only College in Delhi of having him in its Governing Body. On 12 February 1959, The famous African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. visited the college and made a memorable speech to the students.
In January 2004, the College organised the first-ever Conference of Graduate Students of Economics from the SAARC countries.
Ramjas celebrated its centennial legacy throughout 2016 and completed a 100 years in January 2017. In 2017, India Post issued a postage stamp to commemorate the centenary year of Ramjas college Delhi.
Ramjas College hosts the Ramjas Political Review, which is the ISSN-recognised biannual, peer-reviewed academic research journal run by the undergraduate students of the Department of Political Science. The first issue was released in 2023 as Volume 1(1) with Prathit Singh as the Editor-in-Chief. Further issues, Vol 1(2), 2(1), 2(2), 3(1), have been led by Prem Ansh Sinha as the Editor-in-Chief. Ramjas Political Review has also hosted several renowned academics like Professor Quentin Skinner, Professor Madhavan Palat, Professor SD Muni, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, and authors like Sanjeev Sanyal, Swapan Dasgupta, various politicians, and former foreign secretaries, Amb Maharajakrishna Rasgotra, Amb Shivshankar Menon, and Amb Shyam Saran, where they have been interviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. In such a short span of time, Ramjas Political Review has emerged as a paragon of excellence in the academic circles in the University of Delhi.