King George's Medical College (University) was founded on the initiative of His Highness
Raja Sir Tassaduq Rasul Khan, , of
Jahangirabad Raj,
United Provinces to commemorate the 1905 visit to India of
King George V. The foundation stone was laid by
King George V in 1906; the first session started in October 1911, and the hospital's construction was completed in 1913 at a total cost of ₹30 lakhs. The first batch of students qualified as doctors in 1916. The college was initially affiliated with the
University of Allahabad until 1921. The King George's Medical College, along with
Canning College and
Isabella Thoburn College, became the constituent institutions of the
University of Lucknow in 1921. In 1983, the
Government of Uttar Pradesh took over the college under The King George's Medical College and the Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals (Taking Over) Act, 1983 (U.P. Act No. 10 of 1983). The takeover was repealed in 1998, and the college was re-transferred to the
University of Lucknow on 28 March 1998 through U.P. Act No. 15 of 1998. It was subsequently separated from the University of Lucknow and elevated to the status of a state university in 2002. In 2002 the
Government of Uttar Pradesh, led by
Mayawati of the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), granted university status the college and renamed it Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), under the Uttar Pradesh Chhatrapati Shahuji Medical University Act, 2002. In August 2003
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the
Samajwadi Party (SP) replaced Mayawati and became
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Two months later, in October 2003, the name of the university was changed to King George's Medical University (KGMU) Name-changing continued. In 2007, after the BSP won the
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and Mayawati returned to office, the name of the institution reverted to CSMMU. When control returned to the SP in the
2012 election,
Akhilesh Yadav's government returned the name of the university the current "King George Medical University". Similar changes occurred for the dental faculty. The faculty was established in 1949 as a section of the
ENT department; Two years later, under the Uttar Pradesh King George's University of Dental Science Act, 2004, the Dental College was raised to the status of a
state university named the "U.P. King George's University of Dental Science". In 2007, the government reverted this decision and the U.P. King George's University of Dental Science again became simply a Faculty of Dental Sciences, as it was at the establishment of the university. After attaining university status, it also functioned as an affiliating university for several medical colleges, including
Autonomous Medical College, Bahraich, until the academic year 2021–2022, after which the affiliated colleges were transferred to the newly established
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University. ==Faculties ==