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Indian Institutes of Technology

group of autonomous Indian public engineering institutes
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Summary

Indian Institutes of Technology is a university system[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of university system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,068 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: technology[3]
  • Country: India[4]
  • Instance of: group[5], educational institution[6]
  • Main regulatory text: Institutes of Technology Act, 1961[7]
  • Founder: Jawaharlal Nehru[8]
  • Owned by: Ministry of Education[9]
  • Commons category: Indian Institutes of Technology[10]
  • Has part(s): Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur[11], Indian Institute of Technology Bombay[12], Indian Institute of Technology Madras[13], Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur[14], Indian Institute of Technology Delhi[15], Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati[16], Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee[17], Indian Institute of Technology Ropar[18], Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar[19], Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar[20], Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad[21], Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur[22], Indian Institute of Technology Patna[23], Indian Institute of Technology Indore[24]
  • Inception: September 15, 1956[25]
  • Authority: IIT Council[26]
  • Official website: https://iitsystem.ac.in[27]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Indian Institutes of Technology[28]
  • Commons gallery: Indian Institutes of Technology[29]
  • Topic has template: Template:Indian Institutes of Technology[30]
  • Short name: IIT[31], आय.आय.टी.[32], ഐ.ഐ.ടി.[33], આઈ.આઈ.ટી.[34], ਆਈ.ਆਈ.ਟੀ.[35], இ. தொ. க.[36], آئی آئی ٹی[37], भा. प्रौ. सं.[38]
  • Category for alumni of educational institution: Category:Indian Institutes of Technology alumni[39]
  • Category for employees of the organization: Category:Academic staff of the Indian Institutes of Technology[40]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[41]

Why It Matters

Indian Institutes of Technology has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

Related Entities

Avinash Kak Bhubaneswar Mishra India Jawaharlal Nehru Kanianthra Mani Chandy Kavita Bala Manjunath V. Joshi Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy Pramod Khargonekar Pushpak Bhattacharyya Ravi Sandhu Sandip Tiwari Subhash Kak Sukumar Nandi

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . iitsystem.ac.in. iitsystem.ac.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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