Miranda House
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Miranda House seal
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New Delhi, Delhi India |
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| Coordinates | 28°41′33″N 77°12′36″E / 28.69250°N 77.21000°ECoordinates: 28°41′33″N 77°12′36″E / 28.69250°N 77.21000°E |
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| Type | University College for Women |
| Motto | Hindi: स्वाध्याय प्रमदितव्यम् |
| Established | 1948 |
| Founder | Sir Maurice Gwyer |
| Principal | Dr. Pratibha Jolly |
| Staff | 326 |
| Faculty | 238 |
| Number of students | More than 3000 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colour(s) |
Cocoa Brown Green |
| Nickname | MH, Miranda, Mirandians |
| Calendar | Semester |
| Affiliations | DU |
| Website | www.mirandahouse.ac.in |
Miranda House (Hindi: मिरांडा हाउस, MH), a residential college for women, is one of the premier women's institutions of the University of Delhi, India. It was established in 1948. Miranda House offers degrees in the sciences and liberal arts.
Miranda House was founded in 1948 by the university vice-chancellor, Sir Maurice Gwyer. Its foundation stone was laid by Lady Edwina Mountbatten on 7 March in the same year. Miranda House is built of red bricks on the university campus. Its original design was planned by the architect Walter Sykes George and is architecturally similar to other educational institutions in India founded in the colonial era. As the college grew, several buildings were added.
Alumni and students of this college are known as Mirandians.
Miranda House started with 33 students in July 1948, which rose to 105 by September the same year. It was 2,090 in 1997–98. The academic staff increased from six in 1948 to 120 (permanent) in 1997–98 and that of non-academic staff from 11 in 1948 (five in the hostel and six in the college) to 120 in 1997–98. The college accommodation (hostel) housed 43 students in 1948, of whom seven were enrolled at other colleges of the University of Delhi. There are now 250 students in the hostel.
At the time of its founding, Miranda House had six departments; as of 2012[update] there were eighteen. Science teaching was conducted in the university and in 1963–64, B.Sc. General and in 1971, B.Sc. Honours teaching work started in the college. Many new subjects have been introduced in the humanities and social sciences since then.
Miranda House provides liberal education in social sciences, humanities and the basic sciences. The college's infrastructure includes teaching laboratories and general facilities.As of 2012[update] Miranda House has more than 3,000 students.
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