RASHTRASANT TUKADOJI MAHARAJ NAGPUR UNIVERSITY

About us

The Nagpur University is one of the earliest universities of India established in the year 1923 as an affiliating

 and examining body. But, the academia were convinced that the university should not remain just as an examination taking body but must also involve itself into teaching and research. With the establishment of the Department of Political Science, in the year1945, the long cherished dream of the university for undertaking post graduate studies and research was realized.

Yet this journey of the establishment of the department was not without hurdles and much of the time it only remained the topic of reiteration of its acute need in the Annual Reports, at Court meetings and during Convocation speeches. The major hurdle was finance, which was further aggravated with the world war when government grants were subjected to cuts on account of financial stringency and there was no possibility of any additional grants. Under these circumstances the only course open to the university was to appeal and approach he private benefactors for supporting the development especially the teaching at postgraduate level and research.

Thus the first major endowment of this type was founded in 1943-44 and it aimed at the collection of Rs.3 Lakhs to be associated with the name of Dr. E.Raghvendra Rao, the ex-governor and chancellor of the university in 1936. A sum of Rs. 2,20,000 was collected by the end of the year 1944-45 and it was decided to institute a university Professorship in sociology and political science to be financed from this endowment. Thus came into existence the first postgraduate teaching department of the university in the form of the department of Political Science with Prof. S.V. Puntambekar B.A. (Hons.) Oxon, M.A. Oxon, Bar at Law, as its head.