Maulana Azad College

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Maulana Azad College is located in central Calcutta, West Bengal. It is located near the junction of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and SN Banerjee Road. It is a government college and affiliated to the University of Calcutta. The college offers both post graduate and under-graduate courses. Both male and female students study in the college.

Maulana Azad College was founded on 9 December 1926 by Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, then Governor of Bengal. It was originally called Islamia College. The institution was the culmination of efforts of notable Muslim leaders like A. K. Fazlul Huq, Syed Nawad Ali Choudhury and Sir Abdul Rahim. The objective was the uplift of the Muslims of Calcutta and Bengal in general. Even today a good majority of the students of this College are Muslims of Calcutta, mostly Urdu-speaking Muslims.

After the independence of India on 15 August 1947, the West Bengal government decided to rename the college Central Calcutta College. Later in 1960 the college was renamed Maulana Azad College in memory of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The College has a Mosque, where Friday Prayers (Salat), or Namaz, are held every Friday afternoon, all Muslim students attend the prayers in congregation. Special arrangements are made for Prayers on other days, and special prayers on Islamic festivals also.

1 Notable alumni
2 Departments
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Notable alumni

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Founding President of Bangladesh
Mohammad Salim - Lok Sabha MP of CPI(M)
Major General Mohammad Shahid Latif ( 1917-1998 ) , former Commander , 11th Infantry Division , Pakistan Army.

[edit] Departments

Under-graduate courses are offered in almost every subject of Arts, Science and Commerce. Urdu , Arabic and Persian is taught and is a very reputed and popular Departments of the college.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Web site of Maulana Azad College.

University of Calcutta

Chancellor: Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal

Vice Chancellor: Professor Suranjan Das

Affiliated or Associated Institutes for postgraduate studies and research
Bose Institute · Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology · Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta · Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta · Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science · Indian Institute of Astrophysics · Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management · Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata · Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata · Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences · Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics · S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Faculties of the university
Faculty of Agriculture · Faculty of Arts · Faculty of Commerce, Social Welfare & Business Management · Faculty of Education, Journalism and Library Science · Faculty of Engineering & Technology · Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Home Science · Faculty of Law · Faculty of Science

Centres of the university
A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology · Women's Studies Research Centre · Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology · Gandhian Studies Centre · Centre for Urban Economic Studies · S. K. Mitra Centre for Space Environment · Peace Studies Research Centre · Centre for Testing and Training for Providing Technical Back up to the Beneficiaries for Agricultural and Horticultural Development · University Science Instrumentation Centre · Centre for Horticultural Studies · Centre for Millimeter Wave Semiconductor Devices & Systems · Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies · Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology · Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities · Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies · Centre for Studies in Book Publishing · Centre for the Study of China and her Neighbourhood · Nehru Studies Centre