 Cuttack: The Ravenshaw university authorities have stumbled upon some rare documents of the ancient college, which was founded in 1868, in the record room.
The authorities have managed to dig out files more than a hundred years old from the record room of the college and have started measures to preserve these age-old documents by digitizing them.
These precious documents unearthed at Ravenshaw University include - a copy of the notification issued to recruit Indian soldiers for World War I; details of the All-India College Students' Conference held at Nagpur in 1920, prior to the Non-cooperation movement; the extraordinary gazette notification issued to all states to raise funds for World War I; brochures citing the rules and regulations of the Indian Civil Services exam of 1918; the exam and education pattern followed in Ravenshaw College in 1918.
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