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ABOUT OUR COLLEGE
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The Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College was set up at Chandigarh in 1973 in the revered memory of the illustrious Tyagmurti, who, inspired by the spirit of service and sacrifice epitomized in the life of the Late Mahamana Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya, became the torch bearer of those ethical and spiritual verities which are enjoined by our scriptural wisdom, and form the quintessence of Sanatan Dharma. Words are too inadequate to delineate the life and character of the spiritual genius that Tyagmurti Goswami Ganesh Duttaji was. The Management has honoured itself by associating his name with this college. Goswamiji was a dazzling symbol of self-abnegation and selfless service. Inspired by his mentor Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan malviya -a pioneer in the movement of social and cultural revival in India, Goswamiji
addressed himself to the noble task of the revival of India's
rich legacy in all seriousness. |
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Though he was a
staunch Sanatanist, yet he believed that reformation and
innovation in no way run counter to the tenets of Sanatan
Dharma. Goswamiji came out openly in support of Gandhiji, when
the latter started his campaign for the abolition of
untouchability. It was through his persuasive efforts that All
resolutions regarding the entry of Harijans into temples,
widow remarriage etc., which effected a silent revolution in
the social and eclectic thinking of the orthodox sections of Hindus.
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| Being an ascetic he did not join the freedom
struggle as a volunteer, but extended his active
and whole hearted support to this movement. He was held in
high esteem by the national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Goswamiji
gave his unstinted support - moral and financial to the
families of the freedom fighters and workers of the Indian
National Congress and its allied organisations.Goswamiji's
life was a saga of selfless service and sacrifice.Goswamiji visualized
Chandigarh as a principal cultural centre and wanted it to be
the hub of Sanatanist activities. He wanted to start a first
rate college in the City Beautiful. His dream could not be realised in his life time. |
It became possible to resuscitate those plans in 1972,
when, led by Pt. Mohan Lal, formerly Education, Home and
Finance Minister Punjab and President Sanatan Dharma
Pratinidhi Sabha, Punjab and Sanatan Dharma Education Board,
some admirers of the illustrious Tyagmurti Goswami Ganesh
Dutta Ji, eminent educationists, prominent lawyers and public
men from the Union Territory of Chandigarh and the states of
Punjab, |
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Haryana and Himachal Pradesh met in this City
Beautiful and decided to raise a first rate College in his
revered memory. Prof. Roshan Lal Verma donated his entire
life's savings amounting to a lakh and ten thousand and thus
facilitated its opening. Consequently, the Goswami Ganesh
Dutta Sanatan Dharma College Society was duly registered under
the Societies Registration Act of 1860 to run and affiliate
various institutions.In 1987 it established Pandit Mohan Lal
S. D. Public School in Chandigarh. In 1995 it started Pandit
Mohan Lal S. D. College for Women, Gurdaspur (Punjab). In 1997
it established Centre for Professional Courses at Chandigarh. |
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