ABOUT COLLEGE
With the end of the East India Company's regime in India and the failure of the first
armed uprising in 1857, for India's freedom, a new era dawned in our country. It was clear that
the emancipation of our land and the transformation of the life of our people had to be brought
about by peaceful and constitutional means. Indian renaissance had begun and it heralded the
role which education needed to play to achieve national aspirations. Wood's Education Despatch
(1854), the Education Commission of 1882 and the Hunter Commission (1891), were all
indicative of the concerted efforts, of both the Government and the Indian people, in the
enterprise of education. The Founders of the Fergusson College had first started the New
English School, Pune in 1880 and later established the Deccan Education Society (DES) in
1884.The college held these classes, for almost ten years, in the old Gadre Wada and other
locations in Poona. A plot of about 37 acres (a portion of the present extensive campus) was
acquired on a 99 years' lease in 1891 by the DES. The foundation stone of the Main building of
the Fergusson College was laid in 1892 and the building was completed in 1895. The college
started functioning on this campus in 1895. From then onwards, the college has grown from
strength to strength and acquired a reputation as a nation-building institution. It has a place of
pride in the hearts of the people, as a historical monument and a symbol of the country's freedom
struggle. While the founders have become legends, in the history of education and the freedom struggle in India, it is a matter
of great significance, that the college received active and moral support from academicians and
statesmen, such as Principal William Wordsworth, Principal F. G. Selby, Lord Rippon, Sir
William Wedderburn and Sir James Fergusson.Fergusson College was intended to be, "the
seminary of the Indian educational missionaries"
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