Lady Irwin College

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Lady Irwin College
Motto
Vidya hi Sewa
Established1932;91 years ago (1932)
Academic affiliation
 University of Delhi
DirectorAnupa Sidhu
Address
Sikandra Rd, Mandi House
,
New Delhi
,
Delhi
,
110001
,
India

28°37′35″N77°14′09″E / 28.626299°N 77.2359074°E / 28.626299; 77.2359074
CampusUrban
Website www.ladyirwin.edu.in
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Lady Irwin College (India)

Lady Irwin College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi located in the North Campus. Established in 1932, it is a women's college located in New Delhi, India, and offers graduate courses in Food Technology as well as graduate and post-graduate courses in Home Science. The college is among the top 5 and best in Asia for Home Science, the college is also recognised on world standards. According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, Lady Irwin College was ranked in the range of 251-300 for the subject of "Education" [1] [2] [3]

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History

In 1928, the All India Women's Conference began to raise funds for the college. [4] The college has an illustrious ancestry and was established under the patronage of Lady Dorothy Irwin, wife of Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India and the Maharanis of Baroda and Bhopal, Sarojini Naidu, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Annie Besant, Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay, Margaret Cousins and Sir Ganga Ram Kaula to name a few in 1931.

The buildings of the college campus have been classified and protected as heritage sites.

The college shifted to its current campus at Sikandra Road in 1938. Till 1950, it was managed by the All India Women's Education Fund Association, after which it got affiliated to the University of Delhi, and honours degree courses were introduced in the college. [5]

Motto

The aphorism "Vidya Hi Seva" (lit. 'Education is Service') is read beneath the crest of the College emblem. During the pre-independence period, along with Lady Dorothy Irwin, Mahatma Gandhi and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur were amongst the other revolutionists who participated in the struggle by the way of emancipation of women. The college came up in 1931, but during the course of developments, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and M.K. Gandhi exchanged letters [6] over the finalisation of the motto for the emblem. Discussing how "knowledge itself is service" against "service itself is knowledge", Gandhi gave a green signal for the previous one. The teaching learning transactions true to the motto, endeavour to inculcate a sense of knowledge to serve through carefully designed outreach experiences.[ dubious – discuss ]

Courses

Rankings

It is ranked 16th across India by National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2022.

College rankings
NIRF (Colleges) (2022) [7] 16

Alumni

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