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About
This register is the new face of the Halls of Residence of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and the alumni's own record of the places they lived.
The Founder
Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III
Maharaja of Baroda · 1863–1939
"It has been my aim to make Baroda a model state, and education the foundation of its progress."
Sir Sayajirao imagined a university for his state. Baroda College opened in 1881; the university received its charter in 1949, two years after his death, and took his name. Every hall on these campuses stands on that foundation.
The University
From Baroda College to a university
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda descends from Baroda College, established in 1881 under the patronage of the Gaekwads. Its alumni include statesmen, scientists, artists and engineers. Its campuses at Vadodara hold sixteen Halls of Residence, and the register you are reading is their record.
Browse the sixteen halls →The Halls of Residence
§ Sixteen residences · 4,900 bedsTwelve men's halls stand on the Main Campus and the Polytechnic Campus; four women's halls stand on the Main Campus. Together they hold roughly four thousand nine hundred students in any session, and have done for decades.
Each hall keeps its own ledgers: room allotments, mess accounts, warden's notes. This site draws on those books. It is an archive first, and a directory only because the archive is alive.
The Office of the Chief Warden
§ Custodian of the registerThe Halls of Residence are administered under the Office of the Chief Warden, with a Deputy Chief Warden for each of the men's and women's halls and a warden or superintendent in each hall. The Chief Warden's office keeps the master record and verifies every entry made here.
This site was commissioned through that office as an upgrade to the university's existing web presence for the halls: the same institution, speaking in its own voice, with the clarity the record deserves.
Credits
§ Who made thisFor the initiative. This register exists by the grace of the Office of the Chief Warden, and of Major (Dr.) Vijay M. Parmar, Officiating Chief Warden, who received the proposal and set it in motion. Particular thanks are owed to Prof. Jaydeep Lakum, Warden of Sir M. Visvesvaraya Hall, whose encouragement carried the idea from a conversation to a commission.
Product design and engineering by capad.fyi. Photographs from the public record: Baroda College c. 1911 and the portrait of Sir Sayajirao (1919) are in the public domain; contemporary campus photographs are used under CC BY-SA with credit to their contributors on Wikimedia Commons. Founding years and alumni counts per hall are reconstructions pending verification by the Registrar's office.