Photos: A short history of Delhi University's all-women colleges
Women were admitted to St Stephen’s in Delhi University, only for the MA course for the first time in 1928-29. They were first admitted to undergraduate courses 15 years later, in 1943, which was stopped in 1949, with the establishment of Miranda House. Women were readmitted in 1975, and in 1993-94, they were also admitted into BSc and BA (Pass) courses. From Lady Hardinge and Miranda House to LSR, a look at the inception of all-women colleges in Delhi University.
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Students of Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) in July 1976. In the aftermath of the partition, Delhi’s population rose and to cater to the educational needs of the population of displaced persons, a number of new colleges were set up. Among them was Lady Shri Ram College, established by the founder of Delhi Cloth and General Mills, Shri Ram, in 1956 in the memory of his wife.(Ajit Kumar / HT Archive)
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Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Museum and Archives Section of Indraprastha College for Women. In the early years, the most prominent among the colleges for women in Delhi was Indraprastha College for Women (IP College), which came into being in 1924. The result of a nationwide campaign for women’s education and empowerment, the college has its origins in Indraprastha Hindu Kanya Shikshalaya or Indraprastha Hindu Girls School of 1904.(HT Photo)
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A view inside the Museum and Archives Section of Indraprastha College for Women, in New Delhi, on April 20, 2022.(Raj K Raj / HT Photo)
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Indraprastha College for Women began as an intermediate college in 1924 and subsequently moved to Chandrawali Bhawan in Civil Lines in 1934, and later to its current premises, Alipore House, in 1938.(Raj K Raj / HT Photo)
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