|
Zakir Husain Delhi College, formerly Zakir Husain College, Anglo Arabic College and Delhi College, founded in 1692, is the oldest existing educational institution in Delhi, and is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, offering undergraduate and post graduate courses in Arts, Commerce and Sciences.〔(Zakir Hussain College turns 300 ) Ravleen Kaur, Indian Express, September 06, 2005.〕〔(Zakir Husain College ) University of Delhi.〕 It has had a considerable influence on modern education as well as Urdu and Islamic learning in India, and today remains the only Delhi University college offering BA (Hons) courses in Arabic and Persian.〔( Arabic, Persian, Bangla, Urdu in DU ) Indian Express, May 31, 2003.〕 ==History== It was initially founded by Ghaziuddin Khan, a general of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a leading Deccan commander and the father of Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asaf Jah I, the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad, also known as the first Nizam of Hyderabad, in 1690s, and was originally termed ''Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan'' after him. However with a weakening Mughal Empire, the Madrasa closed between 179 and 1791, but with the support of local nobility, an oriental college for literature, science and art, was established at the site in 1792.〔(History ) Official website.〕〔(Anglo Arabic School: an academic legacy of the Mughals ) By Firoz Bakht Ahmad〕 It stood just outside the walled city of Delhi outside the Ajmeri Gate, near Paharganj close to the New Delhi railway station. It was originally surrounded by a wall and connected to the walled city fortifications and was referred to as the College Bastion.〔("Plan of Delhi and its environs," ) by Edward Weller, for the "Weekly Dispatch," published in 1857.〕 It was reorganized as the 'Anglo Arabic College' by the British East India Company in 1828 to provide, in addition to its original objectives, an education in English language and literature. The object was “to uplift” what the Company saw as the “uneducated and half-barbarous people of India.” Behind the move was Charles Trevelyan, the brother-in-law of Thomas Babingdon Macaulay, the same infamous Macaulay whose famously declared that “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”.〔The Delhi College Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education before 1857, The Madrasa of Ghaziu'd-Din Khan at Delhi, Ebba Koch〕 Rev. Jennings started secret Bible classes in the officially secular Delhi College.〔http://calitreview.com/215, Believers and Infidels, by Wiliam Dalrymple, California Literary Review, June 12th, 2007〕 In July 1852, two prominent Delhi Hindus, Dr. Chaman Lal, one of Zafar’s personal physicians, and his friend Master Ramchandra,〔http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/18323 Minault, Gail. Master Ramchandra of Delhi College: Teacher, Journalist, and Cultural Intermediary. Annual of Urdu Studies vol. 18 (2003).〕 a mathematics lecturer at the Delhi College, baptised a public ceremony at St. James' Church, Delhi. Dr. Sprenger, then principal, presided over the founding of the college press, the Matba‘u ’l-‘Ulum and founded the first college periodical, the weekly Qiranu ’s-Sa‘dain, in 1845. Another cultural intermediatory was Mohan Lal Kashmiri, diplomat, and author, who worked for the East India Company and was educated at the college. It was renamed Zakir Husain College in 1975 after Dr. Zakir Husain, a distinguished educator and a President of India. The college was later shifted to its present building outside Turkman Gate in 1986, the old structure in the Madrasa Ghaziuddin complex, still houses a hostel for the college. It was declared a heritage monument by the ASI in 2002. Then in 2008, a separate archive on its history was set up within the college library, with centuries-old books and documents on display, chronicling its 300-year-old history.〔(300 yrs of Zakir Hussain College archived ) Hamari Jamatia, Indian Express, Feb 29, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zakir Husain Delhi College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|