Zakir Husain Delhi College

This article is about the college in Delhi. For the college in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, see Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology.

Zakir Husain Delhi College (Morning)
Former names
  • Delhi College
  • Zakir Husain College
  • Anglo Arabic College[1]
MottoLive By Love
Established1696; 328 years ago (1696)[1]
Academic affiliations
University of Delhi
PrincipalNarendra Singh
Address
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg
,
New Delhi
,
India
Websitewww.zakirhusaindelhicollege.ac.in

Zakir Husain Delhi College (Morning) (formerly known as Zakir Husain College, Anglo Arabic College, and Delhi College), founded in 1696, is the oldest existing educational institution in India, and is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, accredited with NAAC 'A' grade. The college comprises an area of 150 acres. The college is situated in off campus of University of Delhi[2] It has had a considerable influence on modern education as well as Urdu and Islamic learning in India, and today remains the only Delhi University college offering BA (Hons) courses in Arabic and Persian.[3]

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  2. ^ Zakir Hussain College to get a new name Times of India (newspaper), Published 26 December 2011, Retrieved 12 January 2018
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference DelhiCollege was invoked but never defined (see the help page).