BACKGROUND OF THE INSTITUTE
The Osmania University,
established in 1918, is the
seventh oldest in the country,
third oldest in South India
and the first to be
established in the princely
state of Hyderabad. Though the
need for the University for
the Hyderabad state was felt,
both by the intelligentia and
the people for a long time,
the initiative came from a
civil servant, Sir Akbar
Hydari, who was then the home
Secretary to the State
Government. Sir Hydari, in a
memorandum to the education
minister in early 1917,
emphasized the need to
establish a university of
Hyderabad, with Urdu as the
medium of instruction as it is
the language of the widest
currency in India, official
language of the state, and it
is a language which is
understood by a vast majority
of the population of the
state. He believed that higher
education must have its
foundations deep in national
consciousness.
The propitious moment,
however, came a few months
later on 26th April 1917 when
a Firman was issued for the
establishment of the
university. The Firman also
detailed the mission and
objectives of the university
to be that:
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The ancient and modern, the
oriental and occidental arts
and sciences are synthesized
in such a manner that the
defects of the present system
of education are rectified.
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The ancient as well as modern
methods of physical,
intellectual and spiritual
education are to be fully
utilized along worth an effort
for the propagation of
knowledge, the moral
improvement of the students is
regulated on the one hand, and
research work of a higher
order in all branches of
knowledge is conducted on the
other.
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