Thanthai Periyar the foreseer of modern era, a social revolutionary and a very great thinker had been emphasizing the importance of education all through his life. He dedicated his life for the welfare of those who were deprived of educational opportunities, besides uprooting the deep rooted superstitious beliefs, customs, irrationalism and injustice in the society. He strongly believed and advocated that offering education to a man is education to him only whereas education to a woman is.......

Teerthanker Mahaveer University a private university in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh (India) has been established by the Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Uttar Pradesh Act, 2008 (U.P. Act No. 2008) as a Jain Minority University under aegis of Teerthanker Mahaveer Institute of Management & Technology (Society), Moradabad comprising a band of dedicated philanthropists, educationists, industrialists and committed social workers to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional...

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 a university for the Hyderabad State was felt, both by the intelligentsia 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 Akbar, in a Memorandum to the Education Minister in early 1917,.......