University of Dhaka

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ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
University of Dhaka
University of Dhaka
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motto সত্যের জয় সুনিশ্চিত
"The truth is always victorious"
founding July 1, 1921
Sponsorship state
place Dhaka , Bangladesh
Chancellor ( chancellor ) Abdul Hamid
Students approx. 37,800
Employee 3,408
Website www.du.ac.bd

The University of Dhaka (also called Dhaka University or DU ; Bengali ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Dhaka Bishbabidyalay , IAST Ḍhākā Biśbabidyālaẏ ) is a state university in Dhaka , Bangladesh . With more than 37,800 students, it is the oldest and largest public university in Bangladesh. The university library is the most important library in the country.

history

On January 31, 1912, a delegation of Bengali dignitaries expressed their wish to the British Viceroy Lord Hardinge , who was visiting Dhaka, that a university should be established in East Bengal. The British colonial government reacted by announcing on February 2, 1912 that a university would be founded in Dhaka. World War I delayed the establishment of the university, and on March 23, 1920, Viceroy Lord Chelmsford signed the Dacca University Act . The university opened on July 1, 1921 with 3 faculties (arts, sciences and law), 12 departments and 192 students. The 12 departments were Sanskrit and Bengali, English, Education, History, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Persian and Urdu , Philosophy, Economics and Politics, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Law.

After the partition of India in 1947, Dhaka and all of what is now Bangladesh became part of the new state of Pakistan . 1947 UD took over 55 affiliated colleges in West Bengal located University of Calcutta , the first with the establishment of the National University were spun off in 1992 again. In 1952, the University of Dhaka played a central role in the Bengali language movement . In the decades that followed, the university continued to expand with new institutes. Another major change occurred when Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan in the 1972 war . In 1971 the Pakistani army carried out a massacre at Dhaka University, in which numerous teachers and students were murdered.

Every year on April 14th, New Year's Day according to the Bengali calendar , since 1989 students and teachers of the Faculty of Arts have organized the Mangal Shobhajatra , a folkloric parade through Dhaka, attended by thousands.

Faculties and Institutes

The Karjon Hall
North facade of the building of the Department of Chemistry ( Department of Chemistry )

In 2015 the following 13 faculties existed:

  • Natural Sciences ( Faculty of Sciences )
  • Arts ( Faculty of Arts )
  • Medicine ( Faculty of Medicine )
  • Life Sciences ( Faculty of Biological Sciences )
  • Education ( Faculty of Education )
  • Social Sciences ( Faculty of Social Sciences )
  • Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Sciences and Research ( Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Sciences and Research )
  • Engineering and Technology Sciences ( Faculty of Engineering and Technology )
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences ( Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences )
  • Pharmacy ( Faculty of Pharmacy )
  • Law ( Faculty of Law )
  • Social Sciences ( Faculty of Social Sciences )
  • Economics ( Faculty of Business Studies )

There were also the following 11 institutes:

  • Information technology ( Institute of Information Technology )
  • Business Administration ( Business Administration )
  • Disaster management and vulnerability assessment ( Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies )
  • Education and Research ( Education and Research )
  • Health Economics ( Health Economics )
  • Leather processing and Technology ( Leather Engineering and Technology )
  • Modern Languages ( Modern Languages )
  • Nutrition and Food Sciences ( Nutrition and Food Science )
  • Statistical Research and Training ( Statistical Research and Training )
  • Social Welfare and Research ( Social Welfare and Research )
  • Energy ( Energy )

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Universit: Historical outline. University of Dhaka, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Siddiq Salik: Witness To Surrender . ISBN 984-05-1373-7 , Chapter: Operation Search Light-1
  3. ^ A b University of Dhaka> Academic. University of Dhaka, accessed November 21, 2015 .