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Hindu School is a school in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.. It is located on College Street, in the vicinity of Hare School, College Square, Presidency College and Calcutta University.
Hindu College, the school's predecessor, was established in 1817 by Raja Rammohan Roy, David Hare, Radhakanta Deb and other educationists of that time. In 1855, the pathsala part of Hindu College became Hindu School[citation needed] and the other part (mahapathshala) became Presidency College. The date of establishment of the Hindu College, 1817, is considered the establishment date of both Hindu school and Presidency College. The school is one of the oldest existing schools in Calcutta and India.
The school has grades 1 to 12 and the language of instruction is Bengali. Students appear for 10+(Madhyamik) examination under West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and 12+(Higher Secondary Examination) examination under West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. Grade 11 and 12 have three streams- science, arts and commerce. It is a boys-only school with a strength of 1100 students.
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Overview
Prior to the advent of the British in India, the indigenous primary schools of Bengal taught very little beyond Bangla, simple Arithmetic and Sanskrit. The tols (local small schools run by individuals) imparted lessons in advanced Sanskrit, grammar and literature, theology, logic and metaphysics. This was not enough to satisfy the aspiration of Indians like Raja Rammohun Roy, who felt that the process would only 'load the minds of youths with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions'[citation needed] without having any practical use. The necessity of learning English was also keenly felt by people who had to carry on a constant interaction with the British businessmen. A few schools were set up with the purpose of providing rudimentary education in the English language to native Indians. Hindu School was one of them.
History
Dewan Baidya Nath Mukherjee was deputed to collect the subscriptions for the new school. Sir Edward Hyde East, Chief Justice of the Calcutta Supreme Court was invited to chair the committee and Joseph Baretto became the Treasurer. The committee succeeded in raising Rupees 1,13,179.00, the principal donors being the Maharajah of Burdwan (Tejchand Bahadur) and Gopee Mohun Thakur, each contributing Rupees 10,000.
On the opening day there were 20 pupils on the rolls but within the next three months the number swelled to 69. At a later date the pathshala got separated as Hindu School.
Chronology
- January 20, 1817 - Hindu College is established
- 1855 - The pathshala part became Hindu School, and the other part(mahapathshala) became Presidency College.
- 1992 - 175th anniversary observed
Notable alumni
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Ramtanu Lahiri
- Debendranath Tagore
- Hemchandra Banerjee
- Satyendranath Tagore.[1]
- Jyotirindranath Tagore.[2]
- Keshub Chundra Sen
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Raj Narayan Basu
- Mahendra Lal Sircar
- Womesh Chandra Bonerjee
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
- Prashanta Chandra Mahalanabish
- Chhabi Biswas
- Pratap Chandra Chunder
- Abhijnan Roychowdhury
- Ranabir Chakraborty
- Dr. Anil Kumar Dutt
- Ranajoy Guha Neogi
References
- ^ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, 1976/1998, pp. 554–5, Sahitya Sansad, ISBN 8185626650 (Bengali).
- ^ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan, pp. 184-185
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Coordinates: 22°34′33″N 88°21′49″E / 22.575697°N 88.363713°E
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