The University of Allahabad, founded in 1887, has an old and distinguished tradition of learning and scholarship. A walk around the main edifices of the University complex like the Senate Hall, the Vijayanagram Hall and the building housing the J. K. Institute of applied Physics evokes the air of grandeur and academic. Especially striking is the Vijayanagaram Hall complex with its intermingling of late Mughal, Saracenic and Gothic architecture.