Hindu School, Kolkata
Hindu School | |
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Address | |
1B, Bankim Chatterjee Street Kolkata, West Bengal, 700 073 India | |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto |
তমসো মা জ্যোতির্গময়ঃ (illumine the darkness) |
Religious affiliation(s) | Secular |
Established | 20 January 1817 |
Founder | Raja Rammohan Roy, Radhakanta Deb, Rasamay Dutt, Baidyanath Mukhopadhya, David Hare, Sir Edward Hyde East |
School board | WBBSE & WBCHSE |
Authority | Government of West Bengal |
Category | Higher Secondary |
Chairman | Governor of West Bengal |
Principal | Tushar Kanti Samanta |
Faculty | 53 |
Teaching staff | 19 |
Gender | Boys |
Number of students | 1250 (approximate intake) |
Campus | Urban |
Alumni | See List of Hindu School people |
Website |
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Hindu School (not to be confused with Hindu College of Delhi established 1899) is a state government-administered school in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. It is located on College Street, in the vicinity of Hare School, College Square, Kolkata, Presidency College, Sanskrit College, Calcutta Medical College and the University of Calcutta.
Notable alumni
- Satyendranath Tagore.[1]
- Jyotirindranath Tagore.[2]
- Taraknath Palit
- Bhaktivinoda Thakur
- Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Chhabi Biswas
- Meghnad Saha
- Michael Modhusudan Dutt
- Young Bengals
- Prasanna Kumar Tagore
- Rajendralal Mitra
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder
- Keshob Chandra Sen
- Nisith Ranjan Ray
- Rishi Rajnarayan Bosu
- Anandamohan Bose
- Kaliprasanna Singha
- Radharaman Mitra
- Kulada Charan Das Gupta
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Coordinates: 22°34′33″N 88°21′49″E / 22.575697°N 88.363713°E
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