India's freedom struggle and some of this college's teachers and students courted arrest. The college also closed its gates for several months. Principals B.B. Mookerji, 1899–1906 N.N. Roy, 1906–1911 P.B. Adhikari, 1911–1915 S. Sen, 1915–1917 N.V. Thadani, 1917–1928 S.K. Sen, 1928–1934 N.V. Thadani, 1935–1950 A. Bhattacharya, 1950–1957 R.N. Mathur, 1958–1964 B.M. Bhatia*, 1964–1971, 1973–1980 P.C. Verma, 1980–1995 S.N. Maheshwari, 1995–1997 Kavita A. Sharma, 1998–2008 S. Choudhary, 2008–2010 Vinay K Srivastava, 2010–2012 Pradumn Kumar 2012–2014 Anju Srivastava 2014–present *Dr. B.M. Bhatia was on leave for two years, 1971–1973. During this period, Dr. P.C. Sood was the substituting principal. Campus The college is spread across a 25-acre campus. It has one auditorium, a seminar room and maintains a playground and a sports complex. Basketball, cricket, and table tennis is organised under the supervision of the director of physical education. The college has physics and chemistry laboratories, NCC and NSS rooms, a computer room, a photocopier and a stationery shop. A Students' Centre offers a bank and a canteen. Library Hindu College's library is among the oldest college libraries in the University of Delhi. It was set up in 1899, along with the foundation of the college. Also students as well as teachers can refer to various books in library. Hostel Hindu College's boys' hostel is situated next to the sports complex of the college. It has 119 rooms enclosing four lawns with rose beds and hedges (charbagh style). The hostel provides residential facilities to about two hundred undergraduate and postgraduate male students. A common room provides the residents recreational facilities such as Carrom-board, chess, and a separate TV room apart from the newspapers and magazines. Due to its limited capacity, only highly meritorious college students get admission to the hostel. The college has start building a girls hostel in 2013. Currently, Girls'Hostel is known as Smt. Indu Punj Girls' Hostel. It has seat for 190 girl student. Organisation and administration Departments Department of Botany Department of Commerce Department of Economics Department of English Department of Hindi Department of History Department of Mathematics Department of Philosophy Department of Physics Department of Political Science Department of Sanskrit Department of Sociology Department of Statistics Department of Zoology Department of Chemistry Department of Physical Science – Chemistry Department of Physical Science – Electronics Academics Rankings Hindu College is ranked 2nd among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022. Student life Student