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The University of Dhaka

The University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka otherwise called Dhaka University or just DU, is the most established college in present day Bangladesh. The college is positioned number one on the Bangladesh University Ranking 2017. Set up in 1921 amid the British Raj, it has made huge commitments to the advanced history of Bangladesh. After the Partition of India, it turned into the point of convergence of dynamic and law based developments in Pakistan. Its understudies and instructors assumed a focal part in the ascent of Bengali patriotism and the autonomy of Bangladesh. The college's recognized graduated class incorporate Fazlur Rahman Khan (pioneer of current basic building), Muhammad Yunus (champ of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, pioneer of Microcredit), Muhammad Shahidullah (renowned instructor, philologist, and etymologist), Natyaguru Nurul Momen (the pioneer of dynamic culture, theater, writing, performing expressions, reasoning and expressions; who was both an early understudy and an educator also, of Dhaka University), Serajul Islam Choudhury (the nation's driving open scholarly and essayist), Rehman Sobhan (social majority rule business analyst), Mohammad Ataul Karim (physicist), Abul Fateh (one of the establishing fathers of South Asian strategy), Buddhadeb Bose (twentieth century Bengali artist), and Sheik Mujibur Rahman (the establishing father of Bangladesh). It likewise delighted in relationship with Satyendra Nath Bose, Vijayaraghavan, and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Today, it is the biggest state funded college in Bangladesh, with an understudy group of 33,000 and a workforce of 1,800. It was recognized by AsiaWeek as one of the best 100 colleges in Asia. In any case, since the 1990s, the college has experienced seriously politicized, factional, and vicious grounds governmental issues advanced by Bangladesh's political gatherings.

Before Dhaka University was built up, close to its grounds were the previous structures of Dhaka College. In 1873 the school was moved to Bahadur Shah Park. Later it moved to Curzon Hall, which would turn into the principal organization of the college. The foundation of the college was a pay of the cancellation of the 1905 Partition of Bengal. The parcel had set up East Bengal and Assam as a different region, with Dhaka as its capital. Notwithstanding, the segment was nullified in 1911 because of serious resistance from Indian National Congress and Bengali Hindus. To assuage the general population of East Bengal, Lord Curzon pronounced that a college as a focal point of brilliance would be built up in Dacca. Khwaja Salimullah, the Nawab of Dhaka, likewise assumed a spearheading part in building up a college in Dhaka. In 1913, popular sentiment was welcomed before the college conspire was given its last shape. The secretary of state endorsed it in December 1913. The primary bad habit chancellor of the college, Dr. Philip Joseph Hartog, previously scholarly recorder of the University of London for a long time was delegated.

The University of Dhaka
Set up in 1921 under the Dacca University Act 1920 of the Indian Legislative Council, it is designed according to British colleges. Fair Chancellor Lord Ronaldshay was the Governor of Bengal in the vicinity of 1917 and 1922. He assigned Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda as an existence part. On his suggestion, Lord Ronaldshay assigned Sir Ahmad Fazlur Rahman as an executive, prior he was in Aligarh Muslim University. Scholastic exercises began on 1 July in 1921 with 847 Students alongside 3 Faculties: Arts, Science and Law; 12 Departments: Sanskrit and Bengali, English, Education, History, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Persian and Urdu, Philosophy, Economics and Politics, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Law; 3 Dormitories for understudies: Salimullah Muslim Hall, Dacca Hall and Jagannath Hall. In 1936, the college granted privileged doctorate degress to Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jadunath Sarkar, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Allama Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore. The college assumed a huge part in the Bengali Language Movement, when Bengalis combined to battle against Urdu being the official dialect in East Pakistan. Dhaka University was the primary place where the development began with the understudies combining and challenging the Pakistan government. Later innumerable understudies were slaughtered in where the Shaheed Minar stands today. After the occurrence, Bengali was reestablished as official dialect. There are 23 home lobbies for the understudies and quarters for the instructors and also for the authorities of the college.

The University of Dhaka
The University Library, housed in three separate structures, is the greatest in Bangladesh. The library holds a gathering of more than 617,000 volumes, including bound volumes of periodicals. What's more, it has a gathering of more than 30,000 original copies in different dialects and countless, microfiche and CDs. It buys in to more than 300 outside diaries.
The Dhaka University Library involves three structures: The managerial building, the primary library building, and the science library building. The managerial building has the authoritative workplaces, a book obtaining area, a book handling segment, a reprographic segment, a book restricting segment, an original copy segment, and a class segment. Other than the Faculty of Business Studies of the college has an E-Library which is the biggest in the Asia of its kind. This propelled level E-Library is associated with 35 globally famous libraries and distribution houses on the planet. Educators, understudies and scientists can read all diaries, books look into papers and articles of these driving libraries, including the Dhaka University, Oxford University and Cambridge University libraries, by utilizing the E-Library offices. The Medical Center of the University of Dhaka, close to the Science Annex Building, offers free restorative administration and free obsessive examinations to understudies, educators and staff and furthermore relatives of the instructors and staffs. The inside gives benefit round the clock, seven days seven days, with 30 specialists working in shifts. The middle has a dental unit, eye unit, X-beam division and two ambulances.

There are cafeterias on grounds, some of which hold chronicled and design intrigue. In 1971 Pakistani warriors slaughtered the proprietor of the Madhur Canteen. The Teacher-Student Center, University of Dhaka of the college has its own particular cafeteria while another cafeteria remains on the Dhaka University Snacks (DUS) chattar. The Faculty of Business Studies has an advanced nourishment court for its understudies. The college has 84 offices under 13 resources.