Three Rooms, Four Teachers, One Conviction
In the summer of 1969, a group of Jagadhri traders, schoolteachers and retired government officers met in the courtyard of the Agrasen Dharamshala with a single agenda: the town's children were finishing school and stopping there, because the nearest degree college was a two-hour bus journey away.
Within fourteen months they had registered the Maharaja Agrasen Educational Society, purchased four acres on Radaur Road, and opened admissions for a B.A. programme with three rooms, four teachers and sixty-two students. The first principal took a salary of ₹600 a month and taught History himself.
The college has never had a wealthy patron. Every building on this campus was funded by local contribution, government grant or student fees — which is precisely why the Governing Body has resisted raising tuition beyond inflation for five decades.
