| Hindu School, Kolkata is housed in an elegant
19th century building at College Street, the hub of intellectual
activities of the city, in the humbling company of Presidency
College, Calcutta
University and Calcutta
Medical College. Managed by the Government of West
Bengal, Hindu School follows the syllabus ordained by the
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal
Council of Higher Secondary Education, the medium of instruction
being Bengali. It is a boys only school and has classes
I - XII.
Hindu School has a very rich history starting with
it's inception on January
20th, 1817, as part of Hindu College. It is one of
the oldest existing schools in India.
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Hindu School is undoubtedly
one of the major cornerstones in the history of institutional
education in Bengal. Established by none less than Raja
Ram Mohan Roy, David Hare, Radhakanta Deb among others,
it stands as a phenomenal residue of the great renaissance
that swept across Bengal during the eighteenth and nineteenth
century. Hindu School and Presidency College are one of
the few milestones that mark the daring which ushered a
bunch of avant garde philanthropists and educationists of
Bengal to carve out the prerogative of education from the
hands of the British.
Basking in the glory of
its great founders and an equally luminous alumni , Hindu
School is still revered as an institution noted for churning
out brilliant results, impeccable discipline and vintage
values. |