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2 unusual facts about Hindu Higher Secondary School


Hindu Higher Secondary School

The schools roots are in two boys' schools in the Triplicane area of Madras, the Dravida Pathasala (Pathasala means school in Sanskrit) for Tamil boys and the Hindu Balura Pathsala for Telugu boys.

Construction of a large school building was completed in 1897, the L-shaped red brick building having been designed by the architect Henry Irwin.



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Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

He had his early schooling in G.S. Hindu Higher Secondary school, Srivilliputhur near to his native village, after which he attended the American College, Madurai and the Christian College, Madras where after gaining his degree in Physics he became a Lecturer in Chemistry.