Jamia Millia Islamia University New Delhi

Posted by Deepa Saini on January 21st, 2020

Introduction

At the time, Rabindranath Tagore, popularly known as the Bard of Bengal, called the university “one of the most progressive educational institutions of India”. Following many years of unrest, and even potential collapse as colonial forces sought to quash it, Jamia was officially deemed to be a university in 1962.

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History

 The emergence of Jamia was supported by Gandhiji[3][4][5][6] and Tagore who felt that Jamia could shape lives of hundreds and thousands of students on the basis of a shared [7] In 2006 the King of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia paid a visit to the university and donated .90 million for construction of a library. Now, that library is known as Dr. Zakir Husain Library (Central Library).[citation needed] In 2019, the university emerged as a center of the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.

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On 15 December 2019, police entered the campus, used tear-gas shells inside and beat up some students. This was occasioned by the burning of buses by unidentified miscreants a few kilometres away.The police also detained the student protestors.[8] The police action was criticized[9] and it sparked protests in several other universities[10][11] in solidarity with the Jamia students.

Rankings

After the first 200 ranks, THE rankings put institutes into rank groups rather than individual ranks and 188th in Asia, improving its position from 201-250 last year.[54] The London-based Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 has assessed about 1,400 universities spread over 92 countries.

Overview

Originally established in Aligarh, Jamia Millia Islamia is a central public university founded in the year 1920. This university has nine faculties, including the Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Engineering and Technology. Additionally, Jamia Millia Islamia has several separate academic departments, including the Department of Adult and Continuing Education and Extension, Department of Arabic and Department of Architecture.

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