University of Madras
Chepauk,Triplicane Chennai, India
1857
Established
- Type
- Government | State university
Approvals and accreditation
NAACAUGC
About College
The University of Madras was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India, following an 1839 public petition for an...
The University of Madras was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India, following an 1839 public petition for an English college in the city of Madras and Sir Charles Wood's Education Dispatch of 1854. Organised on the model of London University, it expanded across South India through the nineteenth century and gave rise to Mysore University in 1916, Osmania University in 1918 and Andhra University in 1926. Endowments made in 1912 created departments of Indian History, Archaeology, Comparative Philology and Indian Economics.