The University began its innings as a unitary teaching institution with the Departments of English, Philosophy, History, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic and Persian (Faculty of Arts), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany and Zoology (Faculty of Science), Economics (Faculty of Commerce) and Law (Faculty of Law), staffed by the illustrious teachers of the MCC and of the University Departments. The ensuing three decades, the Golden Age of the University, witnessed the emergence of many new Departments and disciplines, including Political Science, Commerce, Geography, Education and Military Science (later renamed as Defence Studies).
The graduate and Post-graduate programmes under the Faculties were reorganised in accordance with the latest concepts and Diploma courses instituted in European Languages, the Fine Arts and other subjects of vocational and cultural relevance. Simultaneously, the research degree programmes were re-structured, Libraries, Laboratories and other academic facilities modernised and the scope of faculty research enriched and enlarged. A remarkable feature of this period was the pioneering of what were later styled inter-disciplinary studies, with the teachers exploring the interfaces and applied aspects of established disciplines and pursuing new branches of learning.
Sanskritists contributed to Historical studies, historians helped evolve Political Science, philosophers promoted Psychology and Education and economists advanced the study of Commerce and Geography, while theoretical and applied Physical Sciences progressed from the collaboration of physicists with mathematicians and chemists, and chemists enriched the interaction of botanists and zoologists [...]
