From Patshala to one of India's Leading Universities: The BITSian Saga

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BITS traces its origins to 1901, when Shiv Narainji Birla started a patshala in Pilani with one teacher for educating his grandsons, GD Birla and RD Birla. During 1925-1929 the patshala became a high school and in 1929, the institute was transformed into an intermediate college by Ghanshyam Das Birla. In 1943, the Birla Education Trust was started, and the intermediate college was converted into a degree college and later on started postgraduate courses. During the second world war, the ...

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