The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), formerly Baroda College is a public university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a university in 1949 after the independence of the country. It was later renamed after its benefactor Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the former ruler of Baroda State belonging the royal Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas.
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History
The university has its origins in the Baroda College, established in 1881 by Baroda State. The main building, which houses the Faculty of Arts, was designed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm in Indo-Saracenic architecture style, in a fusion of Indian and Byzantine arches and domes in brick and polychromed stone. The main dome on the convocation hall was modelled after the great dome of the Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur.
Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda (1908-1968) (the last Maharaja of the erstwhile Baroda State) founded the university in 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III (1863-1939), and settled the "Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee and Memorial Trust" which exists to date, catering to the education and other needs of the people of the former Baroda State. It has its origins in the Baroda College of Science established in 1881.
Song
After hearing the university songs of the western universities, renowned theatre personality Prof. C. C. Mehta (from then College of Indian music, Dance & Dramatics of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda) propose Hansa Mehta (the then vice chancellor) to write the Maharaja Sayajirao University's own song, which she later approved. The song was composed by C. C. Mehta and the lyrics are in Gujarati, but it is traditionally written in the Devanagari script, as per the customs of the Baroda State.
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Administration
Chancellor
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is the only State University of Gujarat whose chancellor is not the governor of Gujarat. The chancellor is a member of the Royal family of Baroda.
- Maharaja Shrimant Pratap Singh Gaekwad: Served as the chancellor from 1949 to 1951. He was the first chancellor and was the grandson of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III. He was instrumental in the establishment of the university in 1949.
- Maharaja Shrimant Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad: He was second chancellor and he remained in office from 1951 to 1988. An astute administrator, ardent sports lover and cricketer, he served as the member of Parliament and as a minister in the government of Gujarat. He was twice elected president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
- Mrunalini Devi Puar: the sister of Maharaja Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad remained the Chancellor from 1988 up to her death in January 2015.
- Rajmata Shrimant Shubhangini Raje Gaekwad: 2015 - (incumbent)
Vice-Chancellor
The Vice-Chancellor of the university is appointed for three years.
- Hansa Mehta: 1949-1958
- Jyotindra Mehta: 1958-1964
- C. S. Patel: 1964-1970
- N. K. Vakil: 1970-1974
- P. J. Madan: 1981-1984
- Bhikhu Parekh: 1981-1984
- M. N. Desai: 1985-1987
- R. C. Patel: 1988-1990
- V. C. Shah: 1990-1993
- Suresh Dalal: 1993-1994
- Padma Ramachandran: 1995-1998
- Anil Kane: 1998-2001
- K. C. Upadhyaya: 2002-2005
- Manoj Soni: 2005-2008
- Ramesh Goyal: 2008-2011
- Yogesh Singh: 2011-2014
- Parimal Vyas (Acting VC): 2014-15
- Parimal Vyas: 2015 onwards
Faculty of Science
The university is primarily known for its Faculty Of Sciences.
Physics Programme: Department Of Physics
As a premier centre for Physics learning in India, the department, established in 1949, offers U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. programme and is a sponsored department of Department Of Science and Technology, Government of India under FIST programme. In M.Sc., students are offered Solid State Physics, Electronics and Communication, Nuclear Physics, and Molecular Spectroscopy as specialization. The department is also equipped by two of the oldest and famous observatories: (i) Astronomical Observatory and (ii) Meteorological observatory.
Researchers are provided with advanced technologies including FTIR-4100 Spectrometer, Thermal Analyser (DSC), AFM, Workstations-4, Cluster Computing facility (Supercomputer), etc. which help them in researching on Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Spectroscopy, Theoretical Particle Physics and Astrophysics.
It is one of the oldest Physics departments in India, which adopted advanced curricula based on Courses viz, Berkeley Physics Course, Feynman Lecture Series, etc. under leadership of S.K. Shah and H.S. Desai, then physics professors at Baroda Science College. Department has an active society, notably 'The Physical Society MSU Baroda'.
Department of Condensed Matter Physics has been sponsored for researches in coordination with TIFR and BARC by DST-FIST as a major beneficiary. Department is indulged in a number of active researches with a record endowments.
The university holds the accolade of having worldwide spread Departmental alumni, including LIGO scientist Karan Jani, Physicist Sudhir Trivedi, Particle physicist Sandip Pakvasa (Professor at University Of Hawaii), Sam Pitroda, engineer behind India's telecom revolution ,and Nobel Laureate cum President, Royal Society, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology
Established in 2012, Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology is an inter-disciplinary research institute which integrates several departments of the Faculty of Science. In 2009, when Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, an alumnus of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ramesh Goyal, the former Vice Chancellor of the University, sought advice from C.V. Ramakrishnan, the Founder Head of the Department of Biochemistry to start a unique academic programme. Ramakrishnan advised him to initiate an academic programme with an advent of uniting all the departments of Faculty of Science, along with national and international research centres on a single platform to promote interdisciplinary research. The centre was established with financial support of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Government of Gujarat. The institute started a 5-year Integrated M.Sc. programme in Cell and Molecular Biology in 2012. Eminent Scientists from national and international research centres like the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Laval University, Canada, University of Cambridge, University of Tennessee, USA, and New York University, USA are members of the advisory board of the programme. The course offers 30 seats each year, which are filled through a common entrance exam.
Environmental Science Programme
Faculty of Science has two-year Masters and three-year honours programmes in environmental science. The number of seats are 40 at P.G. level. Students having Bachelor of Science degree in Environment or any other branch with Chemistry as a subject are eligible for test. In the last semester, students are given industrial training. Presentation of seminars and discussions are regular features.
For graduation, B.Sc. Environmental Science Honours course students have to clear 6 semesters. There are theory and Practical components, programme is credit based. The visit to an industry or a Sanctuary, National Park is conducted in each semester. Students of Gujarat and other boards are eligible. Entrance test is conducted for 60 seats. The students undertake regular visits to industries, wildlife sanctuaries and other places for practical exposure. Six month industrial training helps them to learn the industrial working conditions, environment and safety related issues.
Department of Computer Applications
Formally established in 2013, the department offers two programmes, Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) and M.Sc. in Software Technologies.
Department of Biochemistry
The Department of Biochemistry was established in 1955, under the Chemistry Department, and was headed by C.V. Ramakrishnan (father of 2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan). The department has a Center for Nutritional Studies. The department was awarded an Excellent status in 2006 by FIST, a Government of India accreditation agency. It imparts master's degree courses in Biochemistry & Medical Biotechnology with a force of around 50 research students.
The Biochemistry Department offers courses in enzymology, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biochemistry, endocrinology, clinical biochemistry among others. The department conducts research in areas including acterial cooperation, polyketide synthase clusture, antibiotic resistance, Apoptosis, phosphate solubilisation, nitrogen fixation, probiotics, heavy metal toxicity, diabetes, prostate cancer, female infertility, endophytes, magnetoliposomes, protein folding, and vitiligo.
The department was funded under the DST-FIST I programme under which new equipment has been purchased and infrastructure facilities strengthened. The department has received support from UGC-DRS, UGC-DSA and COSIST programs.
The department has a strong base in Microbial technology and the main focus of the program is on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology and other areas allied to Microbiology and Biotechnology. Basic training is given in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Genetic Engineering, Biochemical Engineering and some aspects of Biophysics, Biostatistics, Environmental Biology.
The areas of research in which the department is engaged are:
- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
- Microbiology
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Immunology, Biophysics
The Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre
The department started in 1964. It offers an M.Sc. Microbiology course of duration two years and Ph.D. in microbiology. It started M.Sc. Biotechnology course (duration two years) in 1986. It also offers Post M.Sc Diploma in Genetic Engineering, Bioprocess Development and Intellectual Property Rights (duration one year). The department is active in research work. The broad areas of research in which the department is engaged are
- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
- Microbiology
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Immunology
- Biophysics
- Forensic Science
- Developmental Biology
The department has research laboratories. The Genome Research Centre (GRC) established in 1999 is one of the research laboratories of the department. GRC has international research collaboration with:
- The Weizmann Institute of Science, partners under the International Centre for Cooperation in Bioinformatics, sponsored by UNESCO and supported by DBT, government of India and Indian industrial partners for activities at Baroda.
- Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Honggerberg, Zurich (Bioprocess Development, Reactor design and bioprocess control and automation: Indo-Swiss Bilateral Collaboration in Biotechnology).
- International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos and Du Pont R & D, Delaware (Molecular markers for mapping blast resistance, Rockefeller Foundation, USA.).
- Tel Aviv University, Israel: Indo-Israel S & T Cooperation (Plant SUMO conjugates -- its role in biotic stress).
The bioinformatics centre at the department was started in 1989 as a Distributed Information Sub Centre (Sub-DIC) under the Biotechnology Information System network (BTISnet) of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, government of India. The centre was upgraded to a Distributed Information Centre (DIC) in 2004.
The department is funded by DBT, DST-FIST, GSFC Science Foundation for development of laboratories and purchase of new equipments. The department has high-end equipment like Bioinformatics dedicated server, PCR, Nano-photometer, HPLC, GC, Electron microscope etc.
Faculty of Performing Arts
Classical music
Maharaja Sayajirao Rao Gaekwad was a patron of Indian classical music. Ustad Moula Bux founded the Academy of Indian Music under the patronage of Sayajirao, on 26 February 1886. This academy later became the Music College and is now the Faculty of Performing Arts of MSU. Apart from Moula Bux, Sayajirao's Court boasted of artists like Ustad Inayat Khan and legendary Agra Gharana Aftaab e Mousiqui (Sun of Music) Ustad Faiyyaz Khansaheb.
After educationist Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande's music curriculum was introduced at the college, Gayanacharya Madhusudan Joshi became the first recipient of a diploma in Music (1932) in the history of music education in India.
Dance
The MSU started the first dance programme in India in 1950.
In 1880, the Maharani Kanta Ben of Tanjore was married to Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao III Gopalrao Gaekwad, a prince who established the Baroda College as one of his first public acts. It was later absorbed into the university that bears his name. Chimnabai I was knowledgeable in Bharatanatyam and carnatic music and brought a troupe with her: two dancers, two nattuvanars (leaders of Bharatanatyam concerts), and two teachers. Others followed: Nattuvanar Appaswamy and his dancer wife Kantimati, who had studied with Kannusamy and Vadively, two members of the Tanjore Quartet. After Appaswamy's death in 1939, Kantimati and their son, Kubernath, left to teach in Lucknow and worked in film in South India until Maharaja Pratap Singhrao Gaekwad called the Tanjorkars family back to Baroda in 1949, to teach in the music department in the Palace Kalavan which was later absorbed into MSU.
Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts at the university was founded in June 1950, today one of the most known art schools in India and gave rise to the "Baroda school" of Indian art.
Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts building is known for its Gumbaz (The Dome), often rated as the second largest dome in India, after Gol Gumbaz.
Departments
Department of English
The Department of English library has reading and conference facilities. It has a collection of around 1,200 titles of poetry, fiction and drama, literary criticism and theory, and works on individual authors and texts. The richest sections are on literary criticism and theory, and fiction. The library receives gifts from the British Council, the USIS, and individuals including members of the department teaching staff. The library has borrowed books from the collection of Smt. Hansa Mehta library. It is the same Department where Prof. V.Y. Kantak, Prof. Birji Patil, Dr. G N Devy, Prof. P.C. Kar and Dr. Rani Dharkar taught.
Department of Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy is the oldest in the Faculty of Arts which runs B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. programmes and has given finest philosophers to the country.
Department of Economics
The Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts has given birth to some of the finest economists of the country.
I. G. Patel, former director of the London School of Economics and later the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was the first head of the Department of Economics. Professors I.S. Gulati, V.N. Kothari, K.N. Reddy, S.R. Hashim and M.M. Dadi belonged to this department.
The department has strength in finance, sustainable development, gender studies, environmental economics. The department has been supported by schemes and grants from the Department of Special Assistance, Centre for Planning and Development, and Assistance for Strengthening Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities.
The department runs a professional postgraduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Finance. The department has a library which is accessed by the post-graduate students. It has a computer lab for training and instruction.
Faculty of Journalism and Communication
The only media faculty to be recognised all over Gujarat. Once accredited as third at all-India level in March 2001 for its courses offered.
Faculty of Education and Psychology
The Department of Psychology offers four areas of study: Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Industrial Psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
For on-the-job experience postgraduate students are provided placement in corporate and service sector organizations, community guidance centres, mental hospitals, general hospitals, schools, clinics and counselling centres.
The department has community outreach programs, such as in the university counselling centre: MARG for counselling of students. The department organizes workshops and seminars. The department has undertaken teaching as well as research and guidance. A guidance and counselling centre catering to the needs of student and well community is attached to the department. The department offers three part-time postgraduate diplomas: Human Resource Development, Clinical and Community Psychology, and Applied Hypnosis.
Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law has been a law institute in Gujarat since 1962. It offers courses like B.A.LL.B. (5 years), LLB (3 years), LLM (Business Law), LLM (Criminal Law), postgraduate Diploma in Taxation Practice, postgraduate Diploma in Labour Practice and a Doctor of philosophy programme.
The Faculty of Law has produced lawyers and judges of the Gujarat High Court.
The faculty has produced Judicial Officers and other members of the Bar, serving at the Supreme Court of India, Gujarat High Court, other High Courts and Lower Courts.
The faculty has run a postgraduate cyberlaw course of one-year duration and has produced cyberlaw consultants from MSU from fields like Insurance, Personnel, Computer Science, Company Secretaries, and Doctors.
Faculty of Family and Community Sciences
The faculty is a girls college but boys can get admission. There are seven majors in the Home Science faculty.
- Foods and Nutrition
- Catering
- Clothing and Textile
- Fashion Technology
- Interior Designing
- Fashion and Communication
- Human development and family studies
Students can do a BSc (home) degree as well as a postgraduate MSc In any of above majors they can do their graduation with General Home Science which cover all five majors.
Faculty of Management Studies
Popularly known as FMS Baroda, was established in 1984 in the city of Vadodara. The courses are approved by All India Council for Technical Education. The institute offers the specialization in Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management and Information Systems. During 1995, it increased its intake from 30 to 40 for 2-year full-time (regular) MBA, and in 1997 introduced a 3-Year MBA Evening Programme. Its motto is "Those who build beneath the stars build too low". It is based on a poem of famous Urdu poet Muhammad Iqbal, "Sitaro se age jahan aur bhi hai". Which means "the world is beyond the stars".
Faculty of Social Work
The faculty began on 15 March 1949.
Courses offered are Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), postgraduate Diploma in IRPM; postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, postgraduate Diploma in Health Management and Interventions; postgraduate Diploma in Social Development and Organisation Management; postgraduate Diploma in Criminology and Correctional Management and PhD in Social Work.
The student-to-faculty ratio is 1:8/10, a level mostly seen in the U.S., UK and other developed countries. The average class size is 40 students.
The faculty owes its origin to the first Vice-Chancellor of M.S. University, Smt. Hansa Mehta. The faculty made a modest beginning as the Baroda School of Social Work (in 1951, elevated to faculty status) in the White Pavilion building in Sayajibaug; they shortly moved to the seminar building of Baroda College and later to its present premises in 1960. The faculty had Dr. Perin Vakharia as the founder dean. Prof. Aruna Khasgiwala is the former Dean. The present Dean is Dr. MN Parmar.
Curricula
The faculty is one of the pioneering post-graduate institutions in social work education with a master's degree in Social Work (MSW) as its focal programme. From the early 1970s, a PhD programme in Social Work was instituted. In the mid-70s an evening post-graduate diploma in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (IRPM) was added. The faculty has undertaken in-service training programmes for field practitioners, government employees, etc. In 1999, a two-year self-financed master's degree programme in Human Resource Management was launched.
Faculty of Technology and Engineering
The faculty is one of the engineering schools in the state of Gujarat. It is housed in Kala Bhavan, the building was supposed to be a temporary palace of the Maharaja of Baroda while his palace was being constructed. Hence is it located exactly opposite to the Laxmi Vilas Palace. The Maharaja donated the palace to open the school of engineering.
Founded by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda as the Kalabhavan Technical Institute in 1890 the Faculty of Technology and Engineering is popularly known as Techo.
The Polytechnic status continued until 1949 when the Kalabhavan was converted into the Faculty of Technology and Engineering (with the establishment of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda), following donations by the Gaekwads for the university and the new building of the institute.
These developments resulting in the creation of 15 departments, a workshop, a library and several buildings, due to financial support mainly from UGC and aided by UNDP, USAID and government agencies and due to the efforts by the institute, deans and teachers. Faculty laboratories and departments received aid of $1,050,000 for development from the United Nations Development Program. The aid was given to develop infrastructure facilities in the area of Fracture mechanics, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Turbojet propulsion and Microprocessor Applications. In 1986 postgraduate courses on Fracture Mechanics, Irrigation Water Management, Turbojet Propulsion and Microprocessor Applications were introduced.
Under the USAID program, faculty received a grant of Rs.40 million from the Water Resources Department and Narmada Department of the government of Gujarat for development of undergraduate and postgraduate program of Irrigation Water Management in March 1991.
Faculty of Medicine
Includes:
- Baroda Medical College
- Nursing College
Faculty of Pharmacy
The Faculty of Pharmacy was established in 2015. Prior to that it was a fepartment under the Faculty of Technology and Engineering. The faculty was ranked 12 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) pharmacy ranking in 2018.
Faculty of Commerce
Faculty of Commerce is the largest in the university, with over 18,000 students.
The faculty has been an institute of education in business studies since 1949. When it was established in 1942, it was known as the Maharaja Pratapsinh College of Commerce and Economics. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes leading to B.Com., M.Com. and PhD degrees. The faculty offers BBA and three postgraduate diplomas in Business Management, Banking and Co-operation. It has five departments:
- Department of Accounting and Financial Management
- Department of Banking and Business Finance
- Department of Business Economics
- Department of Marketing
- Department of Commerce including Business Administration
- Department of Co-operation and Rural Studies
- Department of International Business
The faculty receives the services of colleagues from the following departments of other faculties:
- Department of English, Faculty of Arts
- Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science
- Department of Law, Faculty of Law
Oriental Institute
The institute was established in Baroda on 1 September 1927. It operated from the Central Library before it was shifted in a separate building near the palace. It is known for the seven volumes of critical edition of Ramayana that it published between 1951 and 1975, a part of a 25-year project sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The text was later the reference source for Ramayan, the popular TV series by Ramanand Sagar that originally ran in 1987-88.
One of the oldest manuscripts preserved at the institute is Ayodhya Mahatmya, written by Harishankar in 1656 AD, part of the collection of over 10,000 manuscripts of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who first conceptualised the institute in 1893, inspired by the opening of the Oriental Research Institute Mysore in 1891, established by then Maharaja of Mysore Chamaraja Wodeyar, and a close friend.
The Oriental Institute organises seminar and conferences for research in Oriental studies. The recent seminar on "Research in Indian Languages and Literature" was organised on 22 January 2014. The tweet-feed and Facebook posting can be identified with #oimsurill - regarding this seminar.
Shrimati Hansa Mehta Library
The library was established on 1 May 1950. At the time of MSU's establishment, a collection of 5,12,159 books belonging to two state libraries (Huzur Political Office and Secretariat Library) was handed over to the University Library.
There were several colleges in Baroda - Baroda College (for Arts), Science Institute, Commerce College, and Secondary Teacher's Training College, etc. These colleges had libraries of their own that continued to remain as Faculty Libraries and were administered independently. Thus the University Library System was established on 5 January 1950 and housed in the central block of Old Residency Office Building. Status of library holdings are as following
- Hansa Mehta Library: 512,159
- Faculty of Law Library: 11,029
- Sir Sayajirao Memorial Trust (SSMT) Library: 120,016 combined with H M Library
- Prof. T. K. Gajjar Library, Faculty of Technology & Engineering: 112,670
- Polytechnic Library, Polytechnic College: 43,346
- Faculty of Fine Arts Library: 12,001
- Faculty of Management Studies Library: 9,989
- M K Amin Arts & Science College and College of Commerce, Padra Library: 15,792
- Faculty of Performing Arts Library: 14,478
- Faculty of Social Work Library: 15,349
- Centre for Advance Studies in Education (C. A. S. E.) Library: 20,492
- Oriental Institute Library: 51,784
- Water Resources Engineering & Management Institute's (WREMI) Library: 2,258
- Baroda Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya Library: 5,791
- Department of Biochemistry Library (Faculty of Science): 789
The Library is having SOUL Software made by INFLIBNET. Recently transformed the whole data from SOUL to SOUL 2.0 This among one of the biggest Library- Learning Resource Centre from Collection point of view. The collection at present is 8lakh documents(2015) Times Of India featured Smt. Hansa Mehta library as a must visit biggest libraries of India in 2016 Top 10 ranking list of National Libraries. The University Library is the heart of any Academic Research Institute, it has to play a very vital role in Teaching and Learning. The Library is designated among 22 Document Delivery Centre, designated by INFLIBNET. At present, University Librarian is Mayank Trivedi Trivedi has published 40+ articles in National and International Journals. During 2010-2015, the role of University Library is tremendous in enhancing the Research output of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
Alumni
- Vinoba Bhave, Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights; "National Teacher of India", spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, biologist. Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; President of the Royal Society since November 2015.
- Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian cinema
- Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of Universal Serial Bus for Intel
- Vijay P. Bhatkar, Inventor of Param Super computer
- I. G. Patel, the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Sam Pitroda, inventor, entrepreneur and policy-maker; key-role person in digitalisation of India.
- Vishal Sikka, CEO of Infosys;CTO and Executive Board member of SAP AG
- Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British businessman
- Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia, former Director of IIM Ahmedabad, a Padma Shri awardee
- Bhargav Gajjar, Aerospace robotics scientist, educator and entrepreneur from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- K. M. Munshi, Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer, former Union Minister and educationist
- Bharati Mukherjee, American writer; professor in the department of English at the University of California
- K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University
- Haku Shah, an eminent Indian painter
- Sujan R. Chinoy (Indian Foreign Service): Indian diplomat & China expert; Ambassador of India to Mexico & High Commissioner of India to Belize
- Pramod Kale, a scientist and former Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
- Pankaj Advani (director), film-director, film-editor, screenplay-writer, photographer, theater director, and painter
- Rajendra Shah, lyrical Gujarati poet and philosopher.
- S. L. Bhyrappa, Kannada novelist and philosopher.
- Atul Bedade, former Indian cricketer
- Amarsinh Chaudhary, former Chief Minister of Gujarat
- Gunvant Shah, a noted thinker, writer and columnis
- Chimanbhai Patel, former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Member of Parliament.
- Mohan G. Valrani, co-founder and current Senior Vice Chairman of the Al Shirawi Group, a UAE-based industrial conglomerate
- Sunil Kothari, Indian dance historian, scholar and critic
- Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary, Union Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways
- Anshuman Gaekwad, former Indian cricketer and two-time Indian national cricket coac
- Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad, former Maharaja of Baroda, former Member of Parliament
- Mrunalini Devi Puar, an Indian educator and the titular Maharani of Dhar State
- Sanjay Hazare, international cricket umpire
- Mohit Shantilal Shah, Former Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
- Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, an internationally renowned painter, writer and art critic
- Akshay H. Mehta, former Judge, Gujarat High Court
- Swapna Waghmare Joshi, director and producer of TV Serials
- Shrinivas Khale, Indian composer and music director
- Narayan Gopal, Nepalese singer, editor, musician and writer
- Vihang A. Naik, (b.1969) poet who writes in English
- Shanti Dave, painter
- Kaka Kalelkar, Gandhian Indian patriot, social reformer, scholar of Indian culture, historian, educationist, and journalist
- Manubhai Mehta, Dewan of Baroda state, Prime Minister of Bikanir (Bikaner state)
- Nayan Mongia, former Indian cricketer
- Kiran More, former Indian cricketer and former Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI
- Pan Nalin, director, screenwriter and documentary-maker
- Ahmed Patel, Indian National Congress Leader, Political Adviser to Congress President
- Nethra Raghuraman, actress and model
- Pushpendra Singh, Minister in Rajasthan Government
- Jaynarayan Vyas, former Cabinet Minister, Government of Gujarat, BJP Leader
- Elisha Kriis, Actress, Film Producer, International Model and T.V show Hostess for Travelxp.
- Tanvi Vyas, an Indian actress
- Kavitha Balakrishnan, an art critic, poet
- Srilamanthula Chandramohan, an artist
- Mitali Mukherjee, an Indian classical singer
- Sosa Joseph, an Indian contemporary artist
- Deepak Shimkhada, a Nepali American educator, artist, art historian, author and community leader
- Vivan Sundaram, an Indian contemporary artist
- Chintan Upadhyay, an Indian contemporary artist
- Thota Vaikuntam, an Indian painter
- Piyush Ranade, a Marathi film & television actor
- N. N. Rimzon, an Indian artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures
- Paritosh Pandya, an Indian computer scientist
- Salma Arastu, an Indian artist
- Beena Kak, an Indian politician and Bollywood actress
- Ghulam Rasool Santosh, a prominent Kashmiri Indian painter
- Ankur Vikal, a renowned Indian film and theatre actor
- Laxma Goud, painter, printmaker and draughtsman
- Latika Katt, an Indian sculptor
- Pushpamala N., a photo and visual artist
- Anita Dube, an Indian contemporary artist
- Jaydrathsinh Parmar, a cabinet minister of Road and Buildings and Capital Projects
- Kanury Venkata Subba Rao, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate
- Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
References
External links
- Official website
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