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Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly Presidency College, Kolkata) [2] is a public state university located in College Street, Kolkata. It was among the best colleges in the country when the institute was affiliated to University of Calcutta. [3][4] The institution was elevated to university status in 2010 after functioning as a constituent ...
Higher education in West Bengal. The Indian state of West Bengal is the site of India's first modern university. Thirty-three universities are listed in the state by the University Grants Commission. [1] In West Bengal the medium of instruction in colleges and universities is usually Bengali or English. Diploma, certificate courses, advanced ...
University of Calcutta. The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (CU), is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary university of ...
Independents' Consolidation (IC) is a student organization based in Presidency University, Kolkata. It was formed in the erstwhile Presidency College and has won all but five student union elections since its formation in 1989. It describes itself as a "non-partisan independent political platform" that is not affiliated to any established ...
David Hare (1775 – 1 June 1842) was a Scottish watchmaker, philanthropist, and educationist in Bengal, India (see East India Company and their rule in India). He founded many educational institutions in Calcutta (now Kolkata), such as the Hindu School, and Hare School and helped in founding Presidency College. [1]
P. List of Kolkata Presidencians. Categories: Universities and colleges in Kolkata. Universities and colleges in West Bengal. Universities in Kolkata. Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance. Hidden category: Wikipedia categories named after universities and colleges in India.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alumni of the Presidency University, Kolkata. Former students of Presidency College, Kolkata, when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Thus any alumni of Presidency College are automatically alumni of the University of Calcutta. Following the upgradation of Presidency to University status in ...
In the year 1880, he took admission at the Presidency College (now Presidency University) in Kolkata where he met P.C. Ray and Narendranath Dutta who would later become famous as Swami Vivekananda. Later that year, though only a first-year undergraduate, he published his first mathematical paper, on a new proof of the 25th proposition of Euclid ...