in the northerly direction of Serampore and also at Calcutta on Lower Circular Road. In spite of the difficulties, the academics and administration of the University went on and in 1942 Serampore College, the constituent College of the University, became a co-education institution where women students were admitted in the Arts-Science-Commerce Department, a new venture undertaken by the Senators of the University which also experimented with oral tests as paper became a scarce commodity, an initiative which grew out of dire need but became successful. As for the library of the constituent College of the University, all the books on its stacks were moved in riverboats upstream to Chandernagore and students also assisted in efforts to relocate the library in its entirety. However, when the French sought the building where the University was housed, the library had to be moved back to Serampore in 1945 and was housed in the CNI-St. Olave's Church. The end of World War II and rebuilding of the University in 1946 Though the Second World War ended in September 1945, it was not until 1946 that the Serampore College premises was handed back to the University authorities and gargantuan efforts were made by the Senators to restore the College back to its old glory as the premises was in an unkempt shape. Prof. K. R. Chatterjee records that by July 1946, Serampore College was able to open its academic year in its usual manner. Meanwhile, the British Empire as a prelude to the Independence of India sent a Cabinet Mission to India in 1946 and the same year, the city of Calcutta witnessed the worst ever communal riots and during the succeeding year in August 1947, Bengal was partitioned. Administration of the University during 1942–1946 During the period when Theophilus was Senator (1942-1946), the administration of the University was carried out from Chandernagore and the Senators managed to hold one convocation there in 1944 during the war period. Many seminaries in India which were affiliated to the University at that time and the ministerial candidates who studied during that period emerged as responsible Clergy who went on to assume key leadership roles in the Church in India who included A. E. Inbanathan and C. Arangaden, both of whom served the Bible cause through the Bible Society of India, Joshua Russell Chandran and Stanley Jedidiah Samartha who served the cause of theological education, B. G. Prasada