Punjab, University of the

Punjab, University of the

Urdū  Jamia Punjab 

      residential and affiliating university located in Lahore, Pakistan. Originally Indian, Punjab was founded in 1882 to take on some of the colleges then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, whose jurisdiction included most of northern India and parts of Burma (Myanmar). After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the university in Lahore relinquished its colleges on Indian territory, which then became affiliated with the newly established Punjab University in Chandīgarh, India. The original university in Lahore comprises a number of colleges and postgraduate faculties of arts, science and engineering, Islāmic and Oriental learning, law, commerce, medicine and dentistry, and education. Instruction is in English and Urdū.

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