The Native Medical Institution was established by the ruling British in Calcutta on  the 21st day of June 1822, with the aim to fill the position of native doctors in the civil and military establishments of the Presidency of Bengal and to impart medical teaching in the vernacular. Trainee medical

Established on 24 January 1857, Calcutta University is the first institution in Asia to be established as a secular and multidisciplinary Western-style university. After the Calcutta University Act came into force, the Senate was formed with forty one members as the policy making body of the university. The University was