About Tilak Maharashtra University in , Pune

Tilak Maharashtra University is a deemed university in Pune, Maharashtra, India. At the suggestion of Mahatma Gandhi, it was established in 1921 and named after the independence activist Lokmanya Tilak.HistoryThe origin of the Vidyapeeth dates back to 1921 when, immediately after the demise of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, his follower Mahatma Gandhi mooted the idea of establishing a university in his memory. One of the postulates of the four-fold formula conceived by Lokmanya Tilak was National Education and the other three were Swaraj, Swadeshi and Boycott. The delegates of the first Maharashtra Provincial Conference on 6 May 1921 under the presidency of Shrimat Shankaracharya of Karveer Peeth decided to have National University in Maharashtra. Thus the present-day Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (TMV) was established.TMV the public-funded university had scholar Shri Shankaracharya Vidyashankar Bharati (alias Dr. Kurtakoti) as its first chancellor. This post has been held by other personalities such as the Sanskrit scholar Bharatacharya Shri. C. V. Vaidya, the first premier of Bombay Presidency Shri. B. G. Kher, Dr. M. S. alias Lokanayak Bapusaheb Aney, a great Sanskrit scholar and a historian Maha Mahopadhyay Datto Vaman Potdar, and Honorable Shri. Y. B. Chavan, Shri. S. B. Chavan, Shri. Shivraj Patil, Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde — all Union Home Ministers.During the pre-independence period, degrees awarded in the faculties of Arts, Management, Commerce and Engineering as well as the research works in Sanskrit and Ayurveda were world acclaimed and recognized. Similarly, in the post-independence period, the degrees of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth were equivalent to the degrees of other statutory universities.

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