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Société Générale S.A. (French: [sɔsjete ʒeneʁal]), colloquially known in English speaking countries as SocGen (French: [sɔk ʒɛn]), [3] is a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864.
The society was the brainchild of F. J. Richards who was the Collector, Bangalore cantonment District under the Madras Presidency. Richards visualised the Mythic Society as an academic 'club'. At a meeting held at his residence on 5 May 1909, a list of members likely to be interested in this 'club' was drawn up.
Mahila Seva Samaja is an educational institution in Bangalore, Karnataka, [1] [2] [3] established by Parvatiamma Chandrashekar Iyer. The name Mahila Seva Samaja translates as "Women's Service Society". It was founded for the upliftment of women and exclusively for the education of women, in 1913. It was officially named as Mahila Seva Samaja in ...
The headquarters of the Bible Society of India moved from Nagpur to Bangalore in 1950, under the leadership of General Secretary Premanand Mahanty. The Central Office of the Bible Society of India is located in Bangalore city in the state of Karnataka in South India. [8]
The ISEC campus is located in Nagarbhavi Village, Bangalore on the south-western outskirts of the city. Set amidst 16 hectares, it abuts the Bangalore University’s Jnanabharati premises. The campus has an academic and administrative complex, student hostels, a guesthouse for visiting scholars, residential facilities for 77 faculty members and ...
There is a mention of Fred Goodwill being appointed to the 'Committee on Temperance' of the South Indian Missionary Association in 1918–19, [37] being appointed as General Secretary of the Bangalore Tract and Book Society [38] and being part of the inaugural function of the Hudson Memorial Church, Bangalore on 23 September 1904. [39]
Welfare organisations that were founded in Bangalore and Mangalore were the Brahmo Samaj (1866 and 1870), the Theosophical society (1886 and 1901) and the Arya Samaj (1894 and 1919). [8] In 1894, the Mysore kingdom passed laws to abolish marriage of girls below the age of eight and in 1923 provided women the right to franchise.
Samuel Thomas Pettigrew was born in 1827 in London to Elizabeth, née Reed, and Thomas Pettigrew, an eminent physician and antiquarian.He completed his graduation as a Bachelor of the Arts, from the Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1848, and proceeded Master of Arts in 1851.