To trace the history of Jadavpur University is to trace apart of India’s freedom movement, at least from the Swadeshi Movement onwards.It was 1905 -1906

Bengal stood divided. The times were feverish.

The hegemony of the British establishment had to be challenged.Education had to play a new role in this changed scenario. It had to become anew form of resistance through which the emergent nationalist spirit could bepropagated. With this in mind the National Council of Education (NCE) came intobeing.

Its primary aim was to impart education - literary,scientific and technical on national lines exclusively under national control.To achieve self-reliance, through education. The foundation of the NCE was madepossible by the munificence - scholarly as well as monetary - of the likes ofRaja Subodh Chandra Mallik , Brajendra Kishore Roychowdhury of Gouripur as wellas Sir Rash Behari Ghosh (first President of NCE), poet Rabindranath Tagore andSri Aurobindo Ghosh.