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Hindu School হিন্দু স্কুল | |
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1B, Bankim Chatterjee Street Kolkata , West Bengal , 700 073 India | |
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Type | Public school |
Motto | তমসো মা জ্যোতির্গময়ঃ (Illumine the darkness) |
Religious affiliation(s) | Secular |
Established | January 20, 1817 |
Founder | |
Status | open |
Locale | College Street |
Sister school | Hare School, Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Calcutta, Sanskrit College, Sanskrit Collegiate School, Calcutta Medical College |
School board | WBBSE & WBCHSE |
Authority | Government of West Bengal |
Category | Higher Secondary |
Chairman | Governor of West Bengal |
Principal | Subhrojit Dutta |
Faculty | 40 |
Employees | 65 |
Grades | A++ (Institute of excellence) |
Years offered | 10+2 system |
Gender | Boys |
Number of students | 13 50 (approximate intake) |
Campus | Urban |
Nickname | প্রাচ্যের ইটন (Eton of the East) |
Affiliations | Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal |
Alumni | See List of Hindu School people |
Website | hindu-school.com |
Hindu School is a state government-administered school in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest modern and multidisciplinary educational institution in Asia. Then it was known as Hindu College. In 1855 the 'Pathshala' part of Hindu College was renamed as Hindu School and the 'Mahapathshala' part became Presidency College, Kolkata.
With the establishment of the Supreme Court of Calcutta in 1773 many Hindus of Bengal showed eagerness to learn the English language. David Hare, in collaboration with Raja Radhakanta Deb had already taken steps to introduce English education in Bengal. Babu Baidyanath Mukhopadhya advanced the introduction of English as a medium of instruction further by enlisting the support of Sir Edward Hyde East, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Fort William who called a meeting of 'European and Hindu Gentlemen' in his house in May 1816. [1] [2] The purpose of the meeting was to "discuss the proposal to establish an institution for giving a liberal education to the children of the members of the Hindu Community". The proposal was received with unanimous approbation and a donation of over Rs. 100, 000 was promised for the setting up of the new college. Raja Ram Mohan Roy showed full sympathy for the scheme but chose not to come out in support of the proposal publicly for fear of "alarming the prejudices of his orthodox countrymen and thus marring the whole idea". [3]
At first the classes were held in a house belonging to Gorachand Bysack of Garanhatta (later renamed 304, Chitpore Road), which was rented by the college. In January 1818 the college moved to 'Feringhi Kamal Bose's house' which was located nearby in Chitpore. [4] From Chitpore, the college moved to Bowbazar and later to the building that now houses the Sanskrit College on College Street. In 1855 the 'Pathshala' part was renamed as Hindu School and the 'Mahapathshala' part became Presidency College, Kolkata. [5]
Hindu School had been providing education primarily in Bengali medium until 2017, prior to its bi-centenary, when it has been decided to introduce English as the second medium of imparting education. [6]
The school library holds over 30,000 books with collection of journals and newspapers. Manuscript section holds 1226+ manuscripts.
White Shirt with eton blue pants followed by black leather shoes and school badge (occasionally with identity cards).
Six storied building with fifty general class rooms and separate laboratories for Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and Work Education. A dedicated auditorium named after school alumni Satyendra Nath Bose opened in 2010.
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Chandramukhi Basu, a Bengali from Dehradun, which was located in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh), was one of the first two female graduates of the British India. In 1882, along with Kadambini Ganguly, she passed the examination of the bachelor's degree in arts (BA) from University of Calcutta. Their formal degrees were handed during the convocation of the university in 1883.
Satyendranath Dutta, a Bengali poet, is considered the "wizard of rhymes". Satyendranath Dutta was an expert in many disciplines of intellectual enquiry including medieval Indian history, culture, and mythology.
Girish Chandra Sen was a Bengali religious scholar and translator. He was a Brahmo Samaj missionary and known for being the first publisher of the Qur’an into Bengali language in 1886. He was praised by Islamic scholars in countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Iran for his choice of words.
Ramchandra Vidyabagish was an Indian lexicographer and Sanskrit scholar. His Bangabhashabhidhan, the first monolingual Bengali dictionary, was published in 1817. He taught at the Vedanta College established by Raja Rammohun Roy, and later at Sanskrit College from 1827 to 1837. Closely associated with the work of Raja Rammohun Roy in Kolkata, he was the first secretary of the Brahmo Sabha established in 1828 and initiated Debendranath Tagore and 21 other young men into Brahmo Samaj in 1843.
Prasanna Kumar Roy was an educationist and the first Indian principal of Presidency College, Kolkata.
Abala, Lady Bose was an Indian social worker and feminist. She was known for her efforts in women's education and her contribution towards helping widows.
Peary Chand Mitra was an Indian writer, journalist, cultural activist and entrepreneur. His pseudonym was Tek Chand Thakur. He was a member of Henry Derozio's Young Bengal group, who played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance with the introduction of simple Bengali prose. His Alaler Gharer Dulal pioneered the novel in the Bengali language, leading to a tradition taken up by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and others. Mitra died on 23 November 1883 in Kolkata.
Rasik Krishna Mallick was an Indian journalist, editor, reformer, educationist and a leading member of Young Bengal group. He had shocked the court in British India in the 1820s with the statement that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges.
Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two (jora) wooden or bamboo bridges (sanko) that spanned a small stream at this point.
Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee Viswakarma of Bengal was a pioneering Bengali Indian industrialist.
Ram Brahma Sanyal was the first Indian superintendent of the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata. He was a pioneer in captive breeding, and was one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and wrote a handbook on keeping and breeding animals in captivity – A Handbook of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal (1892) which was reviewed in the journal Nature. This was the standard handbook for zookeepers for over 50 years until Lee Crandall published The Management of Wild Mammals in Captivity in 1964. His scientific methods led to the rare birth of a live Sumatran rhinoceros in 1889, an event that was not seen in captivity until 2001.
Gobindram Mitter was one of the earliest Indian officials during the Company rule in India, who earned reputation for his wealth and extravagance.
The Oriental Seminary started in 1829 by the educator Gour Mohan Addy, was the earliest privately ran, first-rate school for children of Hindu parents in Kolkata. It was open only to boys of Hindu parents. It was possibly India’s first fully private school, as even Hindu School, Hindu College, and Hare school had to abide by certain government guidelines. In earlier days, students wanting to study English had to go to the missionary schools, where they were subject to substantial religious influence. The establishment of a school for learning English, free from religious influences was a major contribution of Addy. Traditional Indian education centres which taught Sanskrit and/or Persian had started fading out.
Deba Prasad Mitra, son of Jyotirindraprasad Mitra (1869–1918), was a renowned clinical pathologist and religious and social worker connected with the Brahmo Samaj. His life and work were greatly inspired and stimulated by the lives of his grandfather Braja Sundar Mitra (1820–1875), the founder of the East Bengal Brahmo Samaj at Dhaka and an inaugurator of the New Age in Dhaka and Eastern Bengal as a whole, and also his mother's grandfather Sib Chandra Deb (1811–1890), a pupil of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio at the Hindu College, the Founder-Secretary of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Kolkata, and pioneer of the modernization of his native village Konnagar, a few kilometers from Kolkata. Devaprasad's father Jyotirindraprasad was a qualified advocate and practiced law for some time, but when he found that one had to resort to falsehood for success in the legal profession, he gave it up and joined the service of the estate of the Tripura Native State at Comilla.
Raja Digambar Mitra (1817–1879) was an Indian businessman. He as one of the leading Derozians and first Bengali Sheriff of Kolkata.
Malati Ghoshal was an Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer and one of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Panchakanya' exponents.
The Hindoo Patriot was an English weekly published from Calcutta in the later half of the nineteenth century in Bengal.
Rasamay Dutt or Russomoy Dutt was a Bengali educationist of British India during the Bengali Renaissance. He was the co-founder of Hindu School, Kolkata. Bengali poet Toru Dutt was his granddaughter.