I posted some pictures of the Deccan College campus. The campus was built in 1906, during British rule, and it must have been an impressive place when it was new. It looks like there was a fair amount of money put into it. The buildings are all stone and wood, and they are still standing strong despite the fact that maintenance and upkeep seems to have been mostly given up a long time ago. The gardens and quads are all overgrown and there are animals everywhere, including dogs and wild pigs. The place sometimes feels like a ghost town, although it is still a functioning university, with a Sanskrit department, a linguistics department, a large, ongoing Sanskrit dictionary project, and an archaeology department that I think is still fairly well regarded. If you didn't see people walking around from time to time you might think it was being swallowed up by the jungle.
Click here for pictures of this fading Victorian beauty.
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