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Which one of the following universities is not amongst the first three that were established during 1857?

Which one of the following universities is not amongst the first three that were established during 1857? Correct Answer Delhi

From ancient Bharat to modern India, higher education has always occupied a place of prominence in Indian history. Today, India manages one of the largest higher education systems in the world.

The Establishment of Universities:

  • The present system of higher education dates back to Mountstuart Elphinstone`s minutes of 1823, which stressed the need for establishing schools for teaching English and the European sciences.
  • Later, Lord Macaulay advocated on "efforts to make natives of the country thoroughly good English scholars".
  • Sir Charles Wood`s Dispatch of 1854, famously known as the ‘Magna Carta of English Education in India’, recommended creating a properly articulated scheme of education from the primary school to the university. It sought to encourage indigenous education and planned the formulation of a coherent policy of education.
  • Subsequently, the Universities of Calcutta, Bombay (now Mumbai) in July 1857 and Madras (now Chennai) in September 1857, followed by the University of Allahabad in 1887.
  • Before this, a couple of colleges were set up during the British rule to meet the engineering, administrative and medical needs of British rulers. But these colleges were affiliated to British Universities.
  • While Delhi University was founded in 1922 by an Act of Central Legislative Assembly.


Hence, the Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were the first three that were established during 1857, whereas Delhi University was founded in 1922.

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