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Deccan College pune
Deccan College
Post-Graduate and Research
Institute is a post-graduate
institute of Archeology and
Linguistics in Pune, India.
Established October 6, 1821,
Deccan College is one of the
oldest institutions of
modern learning in India. It
was originally run by the
Bombay Government as a
center for undergraduate and
postgraduate studies,
offering western education
in accordance with the
desire of its founder
Mountstuart Elphinstone. It
was temporarily shut down in
1934 due to lack of funding,
but was reopened on August
17, 1939 as a Post-Graduate
and Research Institute for
promoting higher learning
and research in
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Indology and Social Sciences.
The reopened institute
originally had four teaching and
research Departments:
Archaeology, Linguistics,
History, and
Sociology-Anthropology. It was
incorporated by the Poona
University (now University of
Pune) in 1948, becoming one of
its recognized institutions.
India granted the Deemed to be
University Status to the
Institute on March 5, 1990.
Currently Deccan College has two
teaching and research
Departments, Archaeology and
linguistics.
Deccan College was run by the
Bombay Government for some years
as a center for undergraduate
and postgraduate studies
imparting western education in
accordance with the desire of
Lord Elphinstone. It was shut
down in 1934 for want of
adequate financial support and
was revived five years later (on
17 August 1939) as a
Post-Graduate and Research
Institute for promoting higher
learning and research in
Indology and Social Sciences.
Deccan College, since then, is
governed by the Board of
Trustees and a Council of
Management. To begin with, the
Institute had four teaching and
research Departments: 1.
Archaeology, 2. Linguistics, 3.
History, and 4.
Sociology-Anthropology. With the
foundation of the Poona
University (now renamed as Pune
University) in 1948, it became
one of it's recognized
institutions. and recognition of
the excellence of the
Institute's research work during
its last fifty years, the
Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India
granted the Deemed to be
University Status to the
Institute on 5 March 1990. The
Institute has two teaching and
research Departments, namely,
Archaeology and linguistics. It
also houses a semi-permanent
project for the preparation of
an Encyclopaedic Dictionary of
Sanskrit on Historical
Principles. The Department of
Linguistics, founded by Prof.
S.M.Katre, has played a
pioneering role in the
development of linguistics in
India. Almost all the linguists
of the first generation have
been trained at the Deccan
College during the late fifties
and sixties. The Department
concentrates on basic as well as
applied aspects of language in
general and on the analyses of
the languages of the
subcontinent in particular. The
Sanskrit Dictionary Project is
the most ambitious project
undertaken by the Institute.
From 1948 to 1975 a data bank of
nearly nine million words
extracted from some 1500 texts
from Vedic period to 18th
century was prepared. From 1976
editing and printing of the
Dictionary began and to date
some 2500 out of the proposed
20,000 pages have been printed.
Efforts are under way to
computerize the working of the
project so as to expedite its
completion. Many prominent
Sanskrit scholars (Prof. Basham,
for example) have remarked that
the "Dictionary when completed,
will be the greatest work of
Sanskrit Lexicography the world
has ever seen". The Department
of Archaeology, founded and
nurtured by the late Prof.
H.D.Sankalia, has developed,
during the last fifty years, as
the premier centre for teaching
and research in archaeology in
South Asia. It has professional
expertise and laboratory
facilities. The faculty consists
of experts not only in Ancient
Indian History, Culture and
Archaeology, but in related
disciplines of Cultural and
Biological Anthropology,
Geology, Geomorphology,
Sedimentology, Palaeontology,
Archaeozoology, Palaeobotany,
Palynology, Archaeological
Chemistry, and Computer Science.
There are also facilities for
surveying, drawing, modeling and
photography. The Department
regularly conducts field
research in various areas of
archaeology in all parts of the
country. It periodically
organizes seminars, workshops,
conferences and refresher
courses to enable its faculty
and research staff to keep
abreast of latest research and
also to share its expertise and
resources with colleagues and
students in sister institutions.
The expertise of the Archaeology
Department, specially in science
disciplines, is utilized by many
universities and government
departments of archaeology,
within the country and also by
institutions in several foreign
countries. The department
attracts students for M.A. and
Ph.D. courses from all parts of
the country and from many
foreign countries, both
developing and developed. Its
faculty has regular and
extensive interaction with
prestigious overseas research
institutions. It receives a
number of distinguished scholars
from various parts of the world
every year.
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