Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute is a post-graduate institute of Archeology and Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

.

Established October 6, 1821, Deccan College is one of the oldest institutions of modern learning in India. It was originally run by the Bombay Government as a center for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, offering western education in accordance with the desire of its founder Mountstuart Elphinstone

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Mountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population...

. It was temporarily shut down in 1934 due to lack of funding, but was reopened on August 17, 1939 as a Post-Graduate and Research Institute for promoting higher learning and research in Indology

Indology

Indology is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent , and as such is a subset of Asian studies....

 and Social Sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

. The reopened institute originally had four teaching and research Departments: Archaeology, Linguistics, History, and Sociology-Anthropology. It was incorporated by the Poona University (now University of Pune

University of Pune

The University of Pune , is a university located in northwestern Pune, India. It was founded in 1949. Spread over a campus, the university is home to 46 academic departments...

) in 1948, becoming one of its recognized institutions. India granted the Deemed to be University Status to the Institute on March 5, 1990. Currently Deccan College has two teaching and research Departments, Archaeology and linguistics.

Notable professors

• F. W. Bain
  F. W. Bain
  Francis William Bain was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edwin Arnold
  Edwin Arnold
  Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
  Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
  Allama Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi was an eminent Indian and Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam...
  
  
• Edward Hamilton Aitken
  Edward Hamilton Aitken
  Edward Hamilton Aitken was a civil servant in India, better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society...
  
  
• Franz Kielhorn
• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
  Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
  Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar was an award-winning historian and essayist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Narayan Govind Kalelkar
  Narayan Govind Kalelkar
  Narayan Govind Kalelkar was a linguist from Maharashtra, India.He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit...
  
  
• Sumitra Mangesh Katre
  Sumitra Mangesh Katre
  Dr. Sumitra Mangesh Katre a lexicographer, Indo Aryan and Paninian Linguist, was born on 11 April 1906 at Honnavar, Karnataka, and died on 21 October 1998 in San Jose, California, USA. Prof...
  
  
• H.D. Sankalia
• S.B. Deo
• Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar
  Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar
  Professor Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar was born on 16 May 1930. Having graduated he served the Archaeological Survey of India as Technical Assistant from 1953 to 1965. He was a Lecturer in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology at the Nagpur University from 1965 to 1967...
  
  
• V.N. Misra
• K. Paddayya

Notable students

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...
  
  
• Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
  Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
  Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade , popularly known as Itihasacharya Rajwade, was an eminent historian, scholar, writer, commentator and orator from Maharashtra...
  
  
• Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
  Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
  Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music , an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions...
  
  
• Meher Baba
  Meher Baba
  Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
  
  
• Irawati Karve
  Irawati Karve
  Irawati Karve was an Indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She was born at Irawati to G. H. Karmarkar, engineer in Myingyan, Burma, so as to commemorate birth place secrede river iravati, she was given name 'Iravati'...
  
  
• P. B. Gajendragadkar