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| 1976, Srimati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women's University 60th Anniversary |
1976, 3 Sept, Srimati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women's
University 60th Anniversary India 25 NP MN H
Text:: INDIA Srimati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women's University 1916 -1976
Condition : MN H
| Stamp Issue Date | : | 03/09/1976 |
| Postage Stamp Denomination | : | 0.25 |
| Postal Stamp Serial Number | : | 0820 |
| Postal Stamp Name | : | WOMEN |
| Philatelic Stamp Description | : | The design of the stamp depicts the building of S.N.D.T. Women's University. |
| Stamp Currency | : | P |
| Stamp Type | : | COMMEMORATIVE |
| Stamp Language | : | English |
| Stamp Overall Size | : | 3.34 X 2.88 cms |
| Postal Stamp Print Size | : | 2.987 x 2. cms. |
| Number of Stamps Per Sheet | : | 42 |
| Stamp Perforations | : | 14 x 13,1/ |
| Postal Stamp Shape | : | Diagonal |
| Postage Stamp Paper | : | Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper |
| Indian Stamp Process | : | Photogravure |
| Number of stamps printed | : | 30,00,000 |
| Stamp Printed At | : | India Security Press |
| Indian Stamp's Color | : | Violet |
THIS ISSUE COMMEMORATES STAMPS THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF S.N.D.T. UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN.FOUNDED IN 1916 BY DR.D.K.KARVE. THIS IS THE PIONEER INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN’S EDUCATION IN INDIA.
| Stamp Information | : | The year 1916 marked the beginning of a new era in the history of omen's higher education in India. In that year, Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve started, with just four students, the Indian Women's University at Hingne, near Poona. In a society governed by age-old customs and out-dated attitudes towards women, an institution of this type as bound to face social and economic difficulties. Fortunately, in 1920 Sir Vithaldas Thackersey, impressed by the pioneering work of Dr. Karve, made a contribution of Rs. 15 lakhs to this institution to commemorate the memory of his mother. Thereafter, the University cam eto be known as Shreemati Nathabai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University. The headquarters of the University were shifted to Bombay in 1936. The University continued to grow providing higher education to more and more women. In 1951, the University received statutory recognition and since then its progress has been accelerated. Today, with faculties of Arts, Social Science, Fine Arts, Home Science, Education, Nursing and Library Science, the University has become a unique center of higher education not only in our country but in the world It has now 22 affiliated and conducted colleges, 3 campuses, more than 20,000 students and 600 faculty members. while taking these strides, the University has maintained its experimental focus by providing instruction in mother-tongue, by permitting and encouraging external students and by providing professional and job-oriented courses to meet the needs of omen in the fast-changing world. The University has started a Polytechnic at Juhu in July, 1976, ith 2 branches, viz., Medical Technology and Commercial and Secretarial Practices. The University's awareness of the response to the needs of the times is also reflected in two other areas, viz., establishment of the Department of Continuing Education and starting of Research Unit of Women's Studies. The University will soon be adding the faculties of Pure Science, Social Work and Commerce to its other faculties and will be focusing attention on interdisciplinary inter-departmental programmes drawing resources from its various departments. In retrospect, the University can be said to have played a significant role in spreading the light of knowledge among omen and taking up at various stages newer areas for providing greater access to women for higher education. The Posts and Telegraphs Department feels privileged to bring out a special postage stamp to mark the Diamond Jubilee of this pioneer institution. |
Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University (SNDT) is a women's university in the city of Mumbai, India. The university headquarters are situated at Churchgate in South Mumbai, while the main campus is in Santacruz–Juhu area of Mumbai. SNDT has three campuses: two in Mumbai and one in Pune. Being a university it has colleges in parts of Maharashtra,Gujarat, Assam, and Goa, as well.
The year 1896 marked the beginning of a new era in the history of women’s education in India when Dhondo Keshav Karveestablished an ashram for widows and helpless women at Hingne near Pune. He realized that to make these women self-sufficient, -reliant and -confident, schooling was essential at the ashram. Karve launched a programme of schooling there, which latter became a regular school for girls and women. In a society governed by age-old customs and conservative attitudes towards women, an institution of this type was bound to face social and economic difficulties. He had a dream of establishing a women’s university. His friends sent him a booklet on the Japan Women's University in Tokyo. In December 1915 Karve, in his presidential address to the National Social Reform Congress in Bombay, announced his decision to shape his dream into reality. On 2 July 1916 the first college started with the enrollment of five students; it gradually took shape as a women’s university. Karve did not wait for the government permission for funds.
The vision of Maharashi Karve and the foresight of Sir Vithaldas Thackersey led to the establishment of the first women’s university in India. Recognizing the pioneering work of Karve, Thackersey made a generous contribution of Rs. 15 lakh to commemorate the memory of his mother, Nathibai. In 1920 the university was named Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s
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