Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

Foundation of Calcutta Medical College.

an older photo of the MCH building

Madhusudan Gupta performed the first human dissection in modern India and modern Asia on 10 January, 1836.This day is now celebrated by the medical faculties and students as The Medical Education Day.

• MJ Bramley, 1835–1837
• David Hare, 1837–1841
• FJ Mouat, 1841–1851
• E Goodeve, 1851–1856
• WCB Eatwell, 1857–1859
• Normal Chevers, 1861–1873
• DB Smith, 1874–1880
• JM Coates, 1880–1890
• EA Birch, 1890–1893
• G Bomford, 1893–1905
• CP Lukis, 1905–1909
• FJ Drury, 1910–1912
• JT Calvert, 1912–1919
• BH Deare, 1919–1922
• AF Barnardo, 1922–1928
• AD Stewart, 1928–1930
• DP Goil, 1930–1932
• T Crawford Boyd, 1932–1939
• J.C.De, 1939–1941
• UP Basu, 1941–1945
• R Linton, 1945–1947
• AC Ukil, 1947–1948
• DC Chakraborty, 1948–1953
• MN Sarkar, 1953–1957
• SC Bose, 1957–1960
• KC Sarbadhikary, 1960–1968
• AK Duttagupta, 1968–1969
• Debabrata Raymahasay, 1969–1973
• BK Chakraborty, 1973–1977
• JB Mukherjee, 1977–1984
• RN Roy, 1984–1985
• KK Bhattacharya, 1985–1986
• AK Chandra, 1986–1987
• SK Biswas, 1988
• S Chowdhury, 1989–1991
• PB Pathak, 1991–1998
• SK Basu, 1998–2001
• SN Banerjee, 2001–2002
• Jayasree Mitra (Ghosh), 2002–2005
• Indrajit Ray, 2005–2009
• Utpal K Datta, 2009–2013
• TK Lahiri, 2013-2018
• Uchhal K Bhadra, 2018-2019
• Manjushree Ray, 2019–Present

Medical College and Hospital Building

The Medical College and Hospital Building (also known as the MCH Building) is the oldest building in Medical College Kolkata.

The college was ranked 19th among medical colleges in India in 2019 by Outlook India.[1]

Frontal facade of the administrative block

Politics

In Memory of Sree Dhiraranjan Sen

Politics among the students of the institution has rich traditions, with scores of students participating in the Indian freedom struggle.[2] The anti-British movements were implemented in this campus with the programmes of Bengal Provincial Students' Federation (BPSF),[2] the Bengal branch of All India Students' Federation (AISF). Initial focus of student politics was on the independence of India.[2] Many students were dismissed from their college or were gaoled during Quit India Movement in 1942. In 1947, a student of this college, Sree Dhiraranjan Sen, died on Vietnam Day (24 January) police firing.[3] The Vietnam Students’ Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in memory of the Indian student martyr in March 1947.[4]

Students politics in this campus was highly influenced by the partition of Bengal and communal riots during and after the Independence (1946-1947).[5] Between 1946 and 1952, medicos of this college stood for communal harmony and worked hard in the refugee colonies. During 1952, some of the ex-students of the college, among them Bidhan Chandra Roy who later became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, took a major responsibility in the establishment of Students' Health Home for the welfare of students.[5][6]

The students also took part in the Food Movement of 1959. On 31 August, ten students of the college were severely lathi charged by police. Junior doctors also took part in this movement.[7] In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s the college became a centre of leftist and then far-left politics.[8] Students politics was highly influenced by the Naxalbari movement in early 1970s.[9]

Aesculapia, a college cultural festival, was launched in 1976. Taking its name from Asclepius, the God of medicine in Greek mythology, it consisted of three days of inter-college competitive events of music, quizzes, debates, arts and drama. This festival has been replaced by another five-day festival, RHAPSODY, since 2002.[10]

Upendranath Bramachari

• Vikram Marwah - Padma Shri awardee, conferred Dr. B. C. Roy Award by the President of India.
• Madhusudan Gupta, the first Indian trained in Western medicine to dissect a human corpse.
• Pasupati Bose
• UN Brahmachari
• Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1 April 1889 – 21 June 1940), also known as Doctorji, was the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). 
• Aroup Chatterjee, British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
• Nirmal Kumar Dutta
• Dipyaman Ganguly, N-Bios laureate[11]
• Kadambini Ganguly, the first certified South Asian female physician qualified for Western medical practice
• Bidhumukhi Bose & Virginia Mary Mitra,[12] The two earliest women medical graduates from Medical College, Kolkata
• David Hare (founder of Hare School)
• Bidhan Chandra Roy
• N. C. Paul, first physician to examine yoga
• Ram Baran Yadav, first president of Nepal
• Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, filmmaker
• Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

• Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital
• Calcutta Unani Medical College and Hospital
• List of hospitals in India

• David Arnold, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India, Delhi, 1993
• Calcutta Medical College, The Centenary of the Medical College, Bengal, 1835–1934. Calcutta, 1935
• Das, Anirban; Sen, Samita (2011). "A history of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, 1835-1936". In Dasgupta, Uma (ed.). Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784-1947. Pearson Education India. pp. 477–522. ISBN 978-81-317-2818-5.
• Poonam Bala, Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective, New Delhi, 1991
• Sen, S.N., Scientific and Technical Education in India 1781–1900, Indian National Science Academy, 1991

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