About this stamp
A Hundred Years of Ramjas
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 11 February 2017 for the centenary of Ramjas College, University of Delhi. The college was founded in 1917 by Rai Kedar Nath, educationist and philanthropist, in memory of his father, Lala Ramjas. When the University of Delhi was formed in 1922, Ramjas was one of its three colleges, with Hindu College and St Stephen’s College.
Its Campuses
In 1924 the college moved to the area now called Anand Parbat, where Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated it; it gave up that campus to the Allied forces in the Second World War and later moved to its present site in the university’s North Campus. Its present building was inaugurated by Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, and Dr B. R. Ambedkar was the chairman of its governing body.
The College Today
Ramjas teaches arts, science and commerce at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Its library holds over 100,000 titles, it has 21 academic societies and four centres of excellence, and in 2003 it set up a Centre for International Education with exchange links to universities in Denmark, Belgium and Pakistan.
The stamp was designed by Nenu Gupta; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 406,590.
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