Jamia Millia Islamia


Jamia Millia Islamia is a Central University located in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in 1935. It was given the deemed status by University Grants Commission in 1962. On 26 December 1988, it became a central university.
Najma Heptulla was appointed as the 11th Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia on 26 May 2017 and Najma Akhtar was appointed as the 15th Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia in April 2019.

History

Jamia Millia Islamia was established in Aligarh on 29 October, 1920 by Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Abdul Majeed Khwaja, and Zakir Hussain under the presidentship of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi. It was established mainly in response to the demand of some students of the Aligarh Muslim University for a new National Muslim University which would be free from government influence as they felt that the administration of Aligarh Muslim University was of pro-British stance.
It was conceived as a national institution that would offer progressive education and an emphasis on Indian nationalism to students from all communities, particularly Muslims. The emergence of Jamia was supported by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore who felt that Jamia Millia Islamia could shape lives of hundreds and thousands of students on the basis of a shared culture and worldview.
In 1925, Jamia Millia Islamia moved from Aligarh to Karol Bagh, New Delhi. On 1 March 1935, the foundation stone for a school building was laid at Okhla, then a nondescript village in the southern outskirts of Delhi. In 1936, all institutions of Jamia Millia Islamia except Jamia Press, the Maktaba, and the library moved to the new campus.
The University Grants Commission gave Jamia Millia Islamia the deemed status in 1962. Jamia Millia Islamia became a central university by an act of the Indian Parliament on 26 December 1988.
In 2006, the King of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia paid a visit to the university and donated US$2.90 million for the construction of a library, now known as Dr. Zakir Husain Library.
In 2019, the university emerged as a centre of the Citizenship Amendment Act protests after the act was passed by the Parliament. On 13 December 2019, Delhi Police tried to forcefully dismiss the protest of students and threw tear gas inside the campus on students to control their agitation. On 15 December 2019, police entered the campus on the pretext of trying to catch the mob that destroyed public peace outside the university campus. Many students sustained injuries because of the police brutality and it sparked protests in several other universities.

Aim

The aim of Jamia Millia Islamia is often displayed with the following statement of Zakir Hussain.

Founders

The foundation committee of the Jamia Millia Islamia also included Kifayatullah Dehlawi, Hussain Ahmad Madani, Syed Sulaiman Nadwi, Abdul Haq, Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Sanaullah Amritsari, Muhammad Iqbal and Saifuddin Kitchlew in it.

Campus

The campus is distributed over a large area. Many of its buildings are being modernised.
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The university's scenic cricket ground, Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Sports Complex, has hosted many important Tournaments and Indian women cricket matches. This ground also hosted the University Cricket Championship in 2013 Besides its seven faculties, the Jamia has centres of learning and research, including the Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Centre for Theoretical Physics, and the Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Academy of Third World Studies. The Jamia offers undergraduate and postgraduate information and technology courses. Jamia Millia Islamia joined the green campaign and installed 2,250 kilowatt solar panels on the campus.

Faculties

Jamia Millia Islamia has nine faculties under which it offers academic and extension programs:

Faculty of Law

Established in 1989, the Faculty of Law offered only the three-year LL.B. course until the early 2000s, but started additionally offering the integrated 5 Years B.A., LL. B course for UG students from the academic year 2002-2003. It also offers specialised courses for postgraduate students and PhD programmes. It has been consistently ranked as one of the best institutes for law in India. In 2018, the Faculty of Law made it among the top ten institutions in the country being ranked at the 6th position by NIRF rankings.

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

The Faculty of Engineering and Technology was established in 1985 with the Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering departments. Departments of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Applied Sciences & Humanities, and Computer Engineering and Aeronautics, as well as a University Polytechnic degree were added subsequently. The faculty offers regular courses and continuing programmes. FET was ranked 27 by NIRF in 2019.

Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics

This Faculty has the Department of Architecture and it offers the following programs:
This Faculty has nine departments offering programmes in PhD, M Phil, postgraduate, undergraduate, diploma and certificate courses.
This Faculty has six departments offering programmes in PhD, Master of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, diploma and certificate courses.
The campus has an art gallery named after the Indian painter M. F. Hussain.

Faculty of Social Sciences and commerce & business management

This Faculty has seven departments
The College of Social Science is based around Gulistan-e-Ghalib and is commonly referred to as the Main Campus.

Faculty of Natural Sciences

This Faculty has eight departments:
This Faculty specializes in quality training and education to budding teachers through two departments:
Academics like Farida Abdulla Khan are serving this faculty.

Centers

AJK Mass Communication Research Center

The Mass Communication Research Centre was established in 1982 by Anwar Jamal Kidwai, then vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia. Jamia Millia Islamia is today known primarily for these mass communication courses according to their own site.

Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

The mission of the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is to promote forefront basic and applied research in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, with potential applications towards fulfilling national strategic needs. The main research focus of the centre includes nano-fabrication and nano-device, nano-materials and nano-structures, nano-biotechnology and nano-medicine, nano-structure characterization and measurements.

Centre for Management Studies

The Centre for Management Studies presently offers three programmes: Ph.D in Management, MBA Programme, and M.B.A. Programme.
The Centre for European and Latin American Studies offers Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in five languages viz. French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. All the Language courses offered at CELAS are part-time courses. Apart from the above-mentioned courses, CELAS also offers M.Phil/PhD in European Studies/ Latin American Studies. Occasionally, professors from different countries come and teach the above-mentioned languages.
Notable among these is the MA in Mass Communication offered by the AJK Mass Communication and Research Center:
Jamia Millia Islamia also imparts education from nursery to senior secondary level.
The main central library of the University is known as Dr. Zakir Husain Library with its collection of about 400,000 artifacts — including books, microfilms, periodicals volumes, manuscripts, and rare books. Certain halls are dedicated to them. The library is open to all bonafide students of Jamia Millia Islamia. Besides this, there are subject collection in libraries of some faculties and centres.

Rankings

Jamia Millia Islamia has been ranked 538 out of 1100 universities worldwide by Round University Ranking. Jamia Millia Islamia has been ranked at 3rd position among the top 25 Central Universities and at 17th rank among top 100 universities by Outlook-I Care India University Rankings 2019.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it 601-800 globally in the 2020 ranking 192 in Asia in 2020 and 201-250 among Emerging Economies University Rankings 2020.
It has ranked on 192 position among the top 200 Universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2020, ranked125 among the universities in BRICS countries by the QS BRICS Ranking 2019 and ranked on 751-800 position in QS World University Rankings in 2020.
It was ranked 16 in India overall by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2019, 10 among universities, 6th in law ranking, 8th in architecture ranking, 27th in the engineering ranking and 34th in the management ranking.
The Faculty of Law was ranked 6th in India by Outlook Indias "India's Top 30 Law Colleges In 2019" and 14th in India by The Weeks "Top Law Colleges 2019".

Former Chancellors

Following people have been Vice Chancellors of Jamia Millia Islamia:
  1. Mohammad Ali Jouhar
  2. Abdul Majeed Khwaja
  3. Dr. Zakir Husain
  4. Mohammad Mujeeb
  5. Masud Husain Khan
  6. Anwar Jamal Kidwai
  7. Ali Ashraf
  8. Syed Zahoor Qasim
  9. Bashiruddin Ahmad
  10. Mohammad Ahmed Zaki
  11. Syed Shahid Mahdi
  12. Mushirul Hasan
  13. Najeeb Jung
  14. Talat Ahmad

    Notable alumni

Since its inception, Jamia Millia Islamia has produced notable alumni. Notable alumni in Bollywood include Shah Rukh Khan, Mouni Roy; in journalism include Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Barkha Dutt, Anjana Om Kashyap; in politics include Salman Khurshid; in Cricket include Virendar Sehwag. It has also produced notable scholars including Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi.