Kolkatta a order to create a nodal center in learning of
Sanskrit, WB assembly has passed the Bill Sanskrit
College and University, West Bengal Bill 2015 will enable complete up-gradation
of the 191 year-old Sanskrit College along with its properties and liabilities.
It is be remembered that Sanskrit is a foreign Language and came to India with the invasion of Aryans
The primary objective of the University will be to create a
nodal center of study in the field of Sanskrit language, various other Indian
languages, Indology, Indian philosophy, comparative literature, humanities and
cognitive science, including study in various foreign languages which have
close association with Sanskrit.
The foundation of Sanskrit College was laid during the
British regime on a recommendation by James Prinsep and Thomas Babington
Macaulay. John Paskal Larkins, a scholar of oracular knowledge laid the foundation
stone of the college in 1824, seven years after Presidency College adjacent to
the city's famed College Street, known as the Oxford of the East.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a polymatch and a key figure in
Bengal Renaissance had served as the principal of Sanskrit College, which had
as its alumni the illustrious artist of Bengal School of Painting Abanindranath
Tagore.
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