Deccan College Postgraduate & Research Institute DCPRI

It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to Deccan College, as it is called in short for Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed to be University). I welcome you all on behalf of all my colleagues and students, present and past, as well as the well-wishers of this great institution. I’m welcoming you as the 5th Vice-Chancellor, who followed an equal number of Directors (1939-1994), and a much larger number of Principals, since 1821. As you would know, the past faculty of Deccan College and the alumni are among many well-known personalities of the past, scholars and experts in the subjects taught here- Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Linguistics and Sanskrit studies- thinkers, social scientists, social reformers and leaders. The University has been known to have laid the foundations of Archaeology and modern Linguistics in India and has the biggest project on Sanskrit dictionary on historical principles. Many national and international scholars have been regular visitors here. The university houses institutions such as the American Institute of Indian Studies, Indian Council for Historical Research and Western Regional Language Centre (a wing of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru).