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From a small building in Old Delhi’s Kinari Bazaar, and with an affiliation to the Panjab University, Hindu College began its academic journey in 1899. Its humble beginning, though, belied the higher purpose behind its foundation. The prominent personalities of the time who set it up had imagined the college as a centre that would offer higher education free of religious, missionary and elitist biases. The institution grew into a nerve centre of social and political debate during India’s independence struggle, particularly the Quit India Movement when many of its teachers and students went to jail. The decades-long tradition of excellence

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