List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta

List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta:[1]

  1. James William Colvile, 1857–1859
  2. William Ritchie, 1859–1862
  3. Claudius James Erskine, 1862–1863
  4. Henry Sumner Maine, 1863–1867
  5. W. S. Seton-Karr, 1867–1869
  6. Edward Clive Bayley, 1869–1875
  7. Arthur Hobhouse, 1875–1877
  8. William Markby, 1877–1878
  9. Alexander Arbuthnot, 1878–1880
  10. Arthur Wilson, 1880–1884
  11. H. J. Reynolds, 1883–1886
  12. C. P. Ilbert, 1886
  13. William Wilson Hunter, 1886–1887
  14. William Comer Petheram, 1887–1889
  15. Gooroodas Banerjee, 1890–1892
  16. Jones Quain Pigot, 1893
  17. Alfred Woodley Croft, 1893–1896
  18. E. J. Trevelyan, 1897–1898
  19. Francis William Maclean, 1898–1900
  20. Thomas Raleigh, 1900–1904
  21. Alexander Pedler, 1904–1906
  22. Asutosh Mookerjee, 1906–1914
  23. Devaprasad Sarvadhikary, 1914–1918
  24. Lancelot Sanderson, 1918–1919
  25. Nilratan Sircar, 1919–1921
  26. Asutosh Mookerjee, 1921–1923 (second term)
  27. Bhupendra Nath Bose, 1923–1924
  28. William Ewart Greaves, 1924–1926
  29. Jadunath Sarkar, 1926–1928
  30. W. S. Urquhart, 1928–1930
  31. Hassan Suhrawardy, 1930–1934
  32. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, 1934–1938
  33. Sir Azizul Huque, 1938–1942
  34. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 1942–1944
  35. Radhabinod Pal, 1944–1946
  36. Pramathanath Banerjee, 1946–1949
  37. Charuchandra Biswas, 1949–1950
  38. Sambhunath Banerjee, 1950–1954
  39. Jnan Chandra Ghosh, 1954–1955
  40. Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta, 1955–1960
  41. Subodh Mitra, 1960–1961
  42. Surajit Chandra Lahiri, 1962
  43. Bidhubhushan Malik, 1962–1968
  44. S. N. Sen, 1968–1976
  45. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, 1976–1979
  46. Ramendra Kumar Podder, 1979–1983
  47. Santosh Bhattacharyya, 1983–1987
  48. Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri, 1987–1991
  49. Rathindra Narayan Basu, 1991–1999
  50. Asis Kumar Banerjee, 1999–2008
  51. Suranjan Das, 2008–2015
  52. Sugata Marjit, 2015–2016
  53. Ashutosh Ghosh, 2016–2017
  54. Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee, 2017–
  • Because of his work on the comparative-historical evolution of legal and political systems, the fourth vice-chancellor, Sir Henry Maine, is widely regarded as a founding figure in the sociology of law.
  • During the tenure of Vice-Chancellor Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, the university underwent a significant expansion.
  • Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, who served as a vice-chancellor, was an eminent physician, administrator, and freedom fighter, whose birth date is celebrated as National Doctors' Day in India. As the second chief minister, he established several institutions and five cities in West Bengal.
  • Shyma Prasad Mukherjeee, the youngest vice-chancellor of the university, finance minister of undivided Bengal, and first minister of commerce and industry of independent India.
  • Justice Radhabinod Pal, who served as vice-chancellor, went on to be the sole dissenting judge in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.

References
  1. "Vice-Chancellors". caluniv.ac.in. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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