HH The Rajahs College, Pudikottai

About HH The Rajahs College, Pudikottai

H.H The rajah’s college (Autonomous Accredited B+) is a Government Institution and is affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. The College is catering to the needs of economically and socially weaker sections of the society, especially the first generation of learners of Pudukkottai District.

The College has based its motto on the Vedic dictum “Thamasoma Jyotirgmaya” (Irulil Irunthu Oliyai Nokki”) which means “Darkness to Light” The goal reflects the objectives of higher education with emphasis on the regional demands.

The College had its origin in a free English School started by His Highness the Maharaja of Pudukkottai in 1857. The first batch of students appeared for Matriculation Examination of the University of Madras in 1880 and this year is regarded as the year of inception of the College. The institution started offering the intermediate course from 1891 and some vocational courses from1920. However, undergraduate courses in Mathematics, Economics and History were started only in 1946. Thus the College was elevated to the rank of first grade College. When the princely State was merged into Indian Union in 1948, The College becomes a Government Institution under the control of Director of Public Instruction, Madras. The B.Com. Course was started in 1949. In June 1957, the University Grants Commission has recognized this College under section 2(f) and 12(b) Of the UGC Act.

The B.sc., courses in Chemistry, Physics and Botany were started in 1959, 1961 and 1968 respectively to meet the increasing demand for Science courses.

In 1978, the College became a P.G institution with the introduction of M.Com B.A English Literature was started in the year 1980. Two more P.G courses M.A (History) and M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics) were started in 1981 and 1982 respectively.

With the establishment of Bharathidasan University in 1982, the College came under its jurisdiction. In 1989-90, the College became a research institution with the introduction of M.Phil courses in Commerce and History. There after in 1990 M.A. Economics was started.

The College happened to be one of the two Government Colleges chosen to offer a B.Sc. course in Physical Education, Health Education and Sports. The course is being offered since 1990. The part-time Ph.D. programmer in history also became operative in that year and in 1996 a B.Sc. course in Computer Science was started to satisfy the longstanding demand of the student community.

In 2001 P.G.D.C.A was started as a self-financing course under the orders of the then State Government of Tamil Nadu. As a constituent College of Bharathidasan University, this institution got affiliation to start Self Financing courses in B.B.A, B.C.A, M.A Tamil, M.A English and M.Sc computer Science in the year 2003. In the same year temporary affiliations were given by the University to start M.Phil programmer in Mathematics and Ph.D. programmer in Commerce. In the year 2004 affiliations were given by the University to start three self-financing postgraduate programmes in science subjects namely M.Sc. Botany, M.Sc. Chemistry and M.Sc. Physics, one self-financing U.G science programme (B.Sc. Zoology) and one self-financing Certificate Programme in Yoga. However, the present Government declared all the above said self-financing courses as regular courses.