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1885 Krishna Kamal Bhattacharyya, The Law relating to the Joint Hindu

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Family.

The Law relating to the Transfer of
Immovable Property Inter vivos.

The Law relating to Wills in India.

The Law of Adoption in India.

The Law of Riparian Rights, Alluvian and Fishery.

The Law of Agency in British India.

The Hindu Law of Endowments.

1892 Maulavi Mahammad Yoosoof, The Mahomedan Law relating to

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Marriage Dower, Divorce Legitimacy and Guardianship of Minors according to the Sunnis.

The Law of Estoppel in British
India.

The Law of Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mistake in British India.

The Land Law of Bengal.

The Law of Joint Property and Partition in British India.

The Law relating to Injunctions and
Receivers in British India.

The Law of Perpetuities in British
India.

The Law of Easements in British
India.

The Law relating to Torts in British
India.

The Law of Interpretation of Deeds,
Wills and Statutes in British India.

1902 Maulavi Syed Shamsul Huda The Law of Crimes in British India.

1903 S. R. Das, Esq.

The Law of Ultra Vires.

1904 Jogendrachunder Ghose, Esq. The Hindu Law of Impartible Property, including the Law of Endowments.

1905 Kisorila! Sarkar, Esq.

1906 Dr. Satischandra Banerjee

The rules of Interpretation in Hindu
Law, with special reference to the
Mimansa Aphorisms as applied to
Hindu Law.

The Law of Specific Relief in British
India.

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1913 Samatulchandra Datta, Esq. ... Law of Compulsory Sales in India.

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1919 Dr. Westel Woodbury Wil- The Fundamental Concepts of Public

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To commemorate the Jubilee of the University of Calcutta which was celebrated in 1908, the Hon'ble the Vice-Chancellor (Mr. Justice Asutosh Mookerjee) proposed to the Government of India that a Professorship of Economics should be established. This proposal was accepted by Government

and the Senate resolved on the 11th April, 1908, that the chair should be named after the Earl of Minto, the then Chancellor of the University.

The following rules have been adopted for the appointment and duties of the Professor :

The appointment shall be made by the Senate.

1. The salary of the Professor will be Rs. 12,000 a year, to be paid in equal monthly instalments. The Professor will in the first instance be appointed for a term of five years only, but upon the expiry of his term, he will be eligible for re-appointment.

2. The University will pay first class passage to the selected candidate from his place of residence to Calcutta.

3. The duties of the Professor will be as follows:

(a) To devote himself to the investigation of the Science of Economics and its application to Indian Problems.

(b) To deliver (not less than once a week during six weeks every year) a course of at least six lectures upon Economics with special reference to Indian Problems and embodying, as far as possible, the result of his own researches in the subject. (Such lectures, after delivery, will be published by the University.)

(c) To hold classes in Economics not less than twice a week during at least twenty-five weeks every year, for the benefit of Post-graduate students and to promote research by them as far as practicable.

(d) To prepare a work dealing with the application of the principles of Political Economy to such Indian topics as may be agreed upon between the Senate and the Professor at the time of his appointment.

4. Applications from candidates for the Professorship must reach the Registrar of the University, not later than (to be specified).

5. Every application shall be accompanied by—

(a) a statement of the original work or investigation in Economics which may have been done by the candidate;

(b) testimonials to indicate special fitness for appointment to the Professorship of Economics;

(c) a statement of the topics on which he undertakes to prepare a work dealing with the application of economic principles to Indian conditions.

6. The Professor will be required to vacate his appointment unless a substantial portion of the manuscript of the work alluded to in para. 3(d) above is made over to the University within three years from the date on which he first takes charge of his duties.

7. The copyright in the lectures as well as the treatise [para. 3, clauses (b) and (d) will be in the Professor; but he will make over the University 200 copies of his lectures annually for distribution.

8. Canvassing by intending candidates for the Professorship is strictly prohibited, and if any candidate is proved to have canvassed for the appointment, directly or indirectly, he will, on that ground alone, be disqualified.

PROFESSORS.

1909-12 Prof. Manoharlal, M.A.

1914-19 Prof. C. J. Hamilton, M.A.

1920-25 Prof. Pramathanath Banerjea, M.A., D.Sc. (Lond.), M.L.C.

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GEORGE V PROFESSORSHIP OF MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE.

In commemoration of the visit of Their Imperial Majesties King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary to India during 1911 and 1912, His, Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Syndicate and the Senate of the Calcutta University, was pleased to sanction

the foundation of a Professorship to be called the George V Professorship of Mental and Moral Science. At the Annual Convocation of the Senate in 1912 His Excellency the Chancellor made the important announcement that a recurring grant of Rs. 65,000 per annum would be made by the Government of India to the Calcutta University for the purposes of higher teaching. The Syndicate, thereupon, decided that the University should have a Professor of Mental and Moral Science of its own. No provision existed at that time for the teaching of this branch of knowledge up to the M.A. standard in any of the Colleges in Calcutta, except the Scottish Churches College where the arrangements for that purpose were likely to be unfavourably affected by the impending retirement of Professor Stephen. Although elaborate Regulations for a course in Experimental Psychology had been framed in 1906, no arrangements were made or could yet be made in any College for the teaching of this increasingly important branch of knowledge. Mental and Moral Science has always had great attraction for Indian students and important papers dealing with the topics under this head have been written by some of the graduates of this University. It was therefore expected that the establishment of a special chair in the subject would stimulate higher study and research on lines likely to prove fruitful. It was resolved that the salary of the Professor be fixed at Rs. 12,000 per annum.

PROFESSORS.

1913-20 Prof. Brajendranath Seal M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc.
1921-26 Prof. S. Radhakrishnan, M.A.

HARDINGE PROFESSORSHIP OF HIGHER MATHEMATICS.

To commemorate the visit of their Imperial Majesties King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary to India during 1911 and 1912 and their gracious reception of a loyal address from the Calcutta University, His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Syndicate and the Senate, was pleased to sanction the foundation of a chair to be styled Hardinge Professorship of Higher Mathematics. At the Annual Convocation of the Senate in 1912, the important announcement was made by His Excellency the Chancellor that higher teaching would receive fresh impetus from the Government of India, who had decided to make a recurring grant of Rs. 65,000 a year to the Calcutta University. The Syndicate came to the conclusion that the purposes of stimulating higher study and research would be best served by utilising a portion of the Imperial grant for making adequate arrangement for the delivery of post-graduate lectures in Higher Mathematics. Inadequate accommodation in the M.A. and M.Sc. Mathematics classes in the affiliated Colleges and the yearly increasing number of candidates for examination in the subjects, since the introduction of the new University Regulations in 1906, convinced the Syndicate of the desirability of founding a chair in Higher Mathematics. It was resolved that the Professorship be associated with the name of His Excellency the then Chancellor of the University and called the Hardinge Chair of Higher Mathematics. It was also resolved that the Chair should carry a salary of Rs. 12,000 per annum. The Senate also agreed to grant to the first Professor Rs. 3,000 a year as house allowance.

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Ancient Indian History and Culture constitutes a branch of study in which research can be carried on by the advanced students with every hope of success. In 1912, the Syndicate were of opinion that the foundation of a Chair of Ancient Indian History and Culture was probably the foremost need of the Calcutta University. It was decided that the money for the Chair would be met from the sale proceeds of the Sanskrit Matriculation and Intermediate Courses and the Sanskrit Grammar published by the University. It was resolved that the Chair be designated the Carmichael Professorship of Ancient Indian History and Culture and that the salary be fixed at Rs. 12,000 per annum.

PROFESSORS.

1913-14 Prof. G. Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc.

1917-20 Prof. D. R. Bhandarkar, M.A., Ph.D. (permanent since 1920),

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SIR TARAKNATH PALIT PROFESSORSHIPS OF

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS.

Among the public-spirited and generous benefactors of the University, the first and foremost rank must be assigned to the late Sir Taraknath Palit whose princely gift worth about Rs. 1,500,000 in 1912 is unsurpassed in the annals of this or any other University. Out of the income derivable from the Palit endowment, two Chairs are maintained one of which is designated the Palit Professorship of Chemistry and the other, the Palit Professorship of Physics. Out of the total value of the endowment, Rs. 100,000 will be set apart for the founding of a Scholarship to be awarded to a distinguished graduate of high attainments and character with a view to enable him to proceed to some foreign University for the purpose of advanced study and research in some special branch of Science. It is expressly stated in the Trust Deed that the object of the founder is the promotion and diffusion of scientific and technical education and the cultivation and advancement of Science, pure and applied, among his countrymen by and through indigenous agency. The Senate has agreed, therefore, that the Chairs will always be filled by Indians (that is, persons born of Indian parents, as contra-distinguished from persons who are called Statutory Natives of India). The Professors-elect may in the discretion of the Governing Body, be required to receive special training abroad, before they enter upon the duties of their

* In view of the special excellence of the work done by Dr. C. E. Cullis as Hardinge Professor of Higher Mathematics he has been made Emeritus Professor of Mathematics from the date of his retirement from the University.

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