Sri Aurobindo was the Vice-Principal of the Baroda College

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Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda is the only English medium University of Gujarat, which attracts students and teachers across length and breadth of the country. Maharaja Sayaji Rao, the erstwhile ruler of Baroda, had started Baroda College in 1890’s. Because of his endeavor, Aurobindo Ghosh, the known revolutionary of his age, had become the Vice-Principal of the Baroda College. In pre-independence India, Baroda became the important center of learning after Bombay in the educational map of western India. After independence, with the University Act of 1949, this Baroda College became the full-fledged University. One of its founder Syndicate member, the great philosopher, S. Radhakrishnan, drafted an act of the university on the basis of academic freedom and autonomy from state control. This is the only university in Gujarat, where the Governor is not the Chancellor but from the royal family of Gaekwad. At present, M.S.U. have about 35 thousand students across 13 faculties, with about 1500 teaching staff. Many of its faculties are known worldwide.

Written by - Mukesh Semwal, Research scholar in Political Science Dept. MSU President- All India D.S.O. MSU Date-21-5-07 Labels: Baroda, BJP, Education, Freedom of expression, Gujarat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Permalink posted by moti roti on Saturday, May 26, 2007