Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College, a linguistic minority institution established in the year 1964 by the Rajasthanis and Gujaratis settled in Chennai for the cause of higher education. The college with a sole purpose of imparting knowledge and value based education saw its grand day on 30th June 1964 with one course in B.Sc. Mathematics with Shri. Totadri Iyengar ( teacher of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalaam) as its first Principal