Ballygunge Government High School

Ballygunge Government High School
Location
38/2, Naresh Mitra Sarani Kolkata – 700020 India
Coordinates	22°31′48″N88°21′14″E / 22.5301°N 88.3539°E / 22.5301; 88.3539
Information
School type	Government school
Established	1927;98 years ago (1927)
Authority	Government of West Bengal
Headmaster	Ranjit Garang (Teacher-in-charge)
Number of students	1200
Language	Bengali, English
Nickname	Ballygungian
Yearbook	Baagbitan
Affiliation	WBBSE and WBCHSE

Ballygunge Government High School (BGHS) is a school in West Bengal, India. This is a boys' only school for secondary and higher secondary level students. Till class 10, its medium of instruction is Bengali, but class 11 and class 12 are taught both in Bengali and in English.

Notable alumni

• Ritwik Ghatak – Filmmaker and script-writer ^[1]
• Sukhamoy Chakraborty – Economist ^[2]
• Partha Sarathi Gupta – Historian ^{[2] [3]}
• Rahul Dev Burman – music director & actor
• Satyajit Ray -director & screenwriter
• Sombhu Mitra- film actor & director
• Rajat Kanta Ray – Historian

See also

• List of schools in Kolkata

References

1. "details of works" (PDF).
2. Gupta, Partha Sarathi (Winter 1998 – Spring 1999). "Of shared days with Amartya". India International Centre Quarterly. 25/26 (4/1): 70–75. JSTOR   23005530.
3. Gupta, Partha Sarathi (2002). Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism By Partha Sarathi Gupta (Edited with an introduction by Sabayasachi Bhattacharya). ISBN   978-81-7824-019-0.

External links

• BGHS Alumni Association Archived 20 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine