List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta
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Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta | |
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Formation | 24 January 1857 |
First holder | James William Colvile |
The vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a university in Kolkata, India, is the executive head of the university.[1] Following the establishment in 1857, James William Colvile served as the first vice-chancellor of the university.
List of vice-chancellors[edit]
S. No. | Name[1] | Term | Image | Notes |
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1 | James William Colvile | 1857–1859 | ||
2 | William Ritchie | 1859–1862 | ||
3 | Claudius James Erskine | 1862–1863 | ||
4 | Henry Sumner Maine | 1863–1867 | ||
5 | W. S. Seton-Karr | 1867–1869 | ||
6 | Edward Clive Bayley | 1869–1875 | ||
7 | Arthur Hobhouse | 1875–1877 | ||
8 | William Markby | 1877–1878 | ||
9 | Alexander Arbuthnot | 1878–1880 | ||
10 | Arthur Wilson | 1880–1884 | ||
11 | H. J. Reynolds | 1883–1886 | ||
12 | C. P. Ilbert | 1886 | ||
13 | William Wilson Hunter | 1886–1887 | ||
14 | William Comer Petheram | 1887–1889 | ||
15 | Gooroodas Banerjee | 1890–1892 | First Indian vice chancellor of the university | |
16 | Jones Quain Pigot | 1893 | ||
17 | Alfred Woodley Croft | 1893–1896 | ||
18 | E. J. Trevelyan | 1897–1898 | ||
19 | Francis William Maclean | 1898–1900 | ||
20 | Thomas Raleigh | 1900–1904 | ||
21 | Alexander Pedler | 1904–1906 | ||
22 | Asutosh Mookerjee | 1906–1914 | ||
23 | Devaprasad Sarvadhikary | 1914–1918 | ||
24 | Lancelot Sanderson | 1918–1919 | ||
25 | Nilratan Sircar | 1919–1921 | ||
26 | Asutosh Mookerjee (second term) | 1921–1923 | ||
27 | Bhupendra Nath Bose | 1923–1924 | ||
28 | William Ewart Greaves | 1924–1926 | ||
29 | Jadunath Sarkar | 1926–1928 | ||
30 | W. S. Urquhart | 1928–1930 | ||
31 | Hassan Suhrawardy | 1930–1934 | ||
32 | Syama Prasad Mookerjee | 1934–1938 | ||
33 | Sir Azizul Huque | 1938–1942 | ||
34 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1942–1944 | ||
35 | Radhabinod Pal | 1944–1946 | ||
36 | Pramathanath Banerjee | 1946–1949 | ||
37 | Charuchandra Biswas | 1949–1950 | ||
38 | Sambhunath Banerjee | 1950–1954 | ||
39 | Jnan Chandra Ghosh | 1954–1955 | ||
40 | Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta | 1955–1960 | ||
41 | Subodh Mitra | 1960–1961 | ||
42 | Surajit Chandra Lahiri | 1962 | ||
43 | Bidhubhushan Malik | 1962–1968 | ||
44 | S. N. Sen | 1968–1976 | ||
45 | Sushil Kumar Mukherjee | 1976–1979 | ||
46 | Ramendra Kumar Podder | 1979–1983 | ||
47 | Santosh Bhattacharyya | 1983–1987 | [2] | |
48 | Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri | 1987–1991 | ||
49 | Rathindra Narayan Basu | 1991–1999 | ||
50 | Asis Kumar Banerjee | 1999–2008 | ||
51 | Suranjan Das | 2008–2015 | ||
52 | Sugata Marjit | 2015–2016 | ||
53 | Ashutosh Ghosh | 2016–2017 | ||
54 | Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee | 2017–Incumbent | [3] |
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Vice-Chancellors". University of Calcutta. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ↑ "The VC who fought Red shackles at CU". The Times of India. 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Basu, Somdatta (2017-08-26). "Calcutta University gets full-term VC after more than 2 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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