Jamia Millia Islamia was founded at Aligarh on 29 October 1920 during the Non-Cooperation Movement. It moved to Delhi in 1925 and Okhla in 1936, became a deeme…
Students on an 18-day protest for an elected union, defunct since 2006, boycotted official events. On 29 October the university promised union elections by the end of Au…
In NIRF 2025 Jamia was 4th among Indian universities and 13th overall, 3rd in the SDG category, 5th in Architecture and 8th in Law. It had NAAC's A++ grade since 2021.
The Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988 came into force on 26 December 1988, dissolving the old society and making Jamia a Central University.
The UGC declared Jamia a deemed-to-be university in 1962, 42 years after its founding. Zakir Husain, then Vice President of India, became Chancellor in 1963.
Riots shook northern India, but Jamia's campus was spared. Its publishing house, Maktaba Jamia, lost books worth about Rs 7 lakh in arson. Gandhi called the campus an oa…
A foundation stone was laid at Okhla on 1 March 1935, and most of Jamia's institutions moved there in 1936. The area grew into Jamia Nagar.
After Hakim Ajmal Khan died on 29 December 1927, teachers led by Zakir Husain pledged to serve for 20 years on no more than Rs 150 a month.
With Non-Cooperation called off in 1922 and the Caliphate abolished in 1924, Jamia nearly closed. Ajmal Khan, Dr M.A. Ansari and Abdul Majeed Khwaja moved it to Karol Ba…
On 29 October 1920, during the Non-Cooperation Movement, Maulana Mahmud Hasan laid the foundation stone at Aligarh. Hakim Ajmal Khan became Chancellor and Mohamed Ali Ja…
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