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The University of Calcutta in the late nineteenth century, by Francis Frith. The Calcutta University Act came into force on 24 January 1857, and a 41-member Senate was formed as the policy-making body of the university. The land for the establishment of the university was given by Maharaja Maheshwar Singh Bahadur, who was a Maharaja of Darbhanga.
The University of Calcutta was founded in 1857. Dr. Fredrick John, the education secretary to the then British Government in India, first tendered a proposal to the British Government in London for the establishment of a university in Calcutta, along the lines of London University, but at that time the plan failed to obtain the necessary approval.
It is run by the Calcutta Province of the Society of Jesus. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1860 and named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India. In 2006, it became the first autonomous college in West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. [2] St.
Despite the fact that the University College of Science and Technology was a department of Calcutta University set up as a part of the colonial educational despatch of 1854. there had been no substantial financial support from the British Raj to encourage the Indian scientists in their works presumably under the idea that Indian brains were not ...
Professor of history at the Scottish Church College: Member of Parliament: Khudiram Das: Ramtanu Lahiri Professor of Bengali and Head of the Department of Modern Indian Languages, 1973–1981 Krishna Dhar: Taught journalism poet and journalist [5] Malcolm Adiseshiah: Lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, 1930–1936 Mahasweta Devi
Raja Peary Mohan College [1] is a general purpose college in Hooghly District of West Bengal, India under the University of Calcutta.It offers undergraduate level courses in various arts , commerce and science subjects.
Vidyasagar College is a state government-aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, [1] located in North Kolkata, West Bengal, India.The college offers both post-graduate and under-graduate courses in a number of subjects of arts and science.
Lady Brabourne College was established in July 1939 at a rented house in Park Circus in Calcutta (now Kolkata), following the initiative of the then Prime Minister of Bengal, A. K. Fazlul Huq. [2] It was named after Doreen, Baroness Brabourne , an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who was the wife of The 5th Baron Brabourne , the then Governor of Bengal .