Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya

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Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875

Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya (School for Hindu Women) was an all-female boarding school located at 22 Beniapukur Lane, Entally, Kolkata, India. [1] [2] Founded by British translator Annette Beveridge, the school was one of the first in India to provide girl students with a curriculum equivalent to that offered for boys. [3] Sources record different dates for the establishment of the school. While Indian historian Jogesh C. Bagal records the date of establishment as 18 November 1873, [1] American historian David Kopf mentions it as 18 September 1873. [4]

Dwarkanath Ganguly was the headmaster. [4] Ananda Mohan Bose and Durga Mohan Das bore the expenses of the institution. [5] Others involved in the school were Sivanath Sastri and Monomohun Ghose. [3] Mrs. J. B. Phear was an honorary teacher. [1] [6] She went to the extent of teaching her students how to eat at a table with cutlery. [3]

After the marriage of Annette Akroyd, the school was closed in March 1876. It was revived on 1 June 1876 as Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women's College). [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Bagal, Jogesh Chandra, History of the Bethune School and College (1849-1949) in Bethune College and School Centenary Volume, edited by Dr. Kalidas Nag, 1949, p. 33
  2. ↑ Karlekar, Malavika. "Frozen Frames". Spectrum. The Tribune, 8 May 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 Karlekar, Malavika. "Lessons in a Sari – Did women's education in India change the way they dressed?". The Telegraph, 4 February 2007. Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
  4. 1 2 Kopf, David, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind, 1979, pp. 34–39, Princeton University Press, ISBN   0-691-03125-8
  5. ↑ Sastri, Sivanath, History of the Brahmo Samaj, 1911-12/1993, p. 164, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
  6. ↑ Amin, Sonia (2012). "Beveridge, Annette Susannah Akroyd". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.


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