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unusual facts about Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan, University of Calcutta



Amitava Raychaudhuri

He was the Director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad from 2005 to 2011 after which he has rejoined the University of Calcutta as faculty.

Amiya Kumar Dasgupta

Dasgupta obtained his Matriculation degree from Goila School (established in 1883 by his uncle, Rajnikanto Dasgupta) in 1920; his Intermediate degree from the Brojomohun College, Barisal, East Bengal, 1922, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

Asghar Ali Engineer

He has been awarded several awards, including the Dalmia Award for communal harmony in 1990, honorary D.Litt. by the University of Calcutta in 1993, the 'Communal Harmony Award' in 1997 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2004 (with Swami Agnivesh) for his 'strong commitment to promote values of co-existence and tolerance'.

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India.

Barun Sengupta

After graduating in commerce from City College, Kolkata, an undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, he founded a periodical named Bhabikal which lasted a few issues.

Basudeb DasSarma

Basudeb DasSarma (1923–2007) was a chemist and faculty at the University College of Science and Technology of the University of Calcutta.

Bratati Bandyopadhyay

She secured first class in masters examination in economics from the University of Calcutta.

Chandra Kumar Agarwala

There he admitted into the FA classes of the Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta.

Chintamani Panigrahi

His passion for higher studies and his wish to be a part of the freedom struggle took him to Kolkata, where he got admission into Vidyasagar College under the University of Calcutta to finish his M.A. He joined the Paschim Banga Chhatra Congress and used to write handbills and posters against the British Government at night.

David Kopf

In the winter of 1984, Kopf was a visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calcutta.

Debraj Ray

Ray graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Calcutta in 1977.

Fatima Jinnah

In 1919, she was admitted to the highly competitive the University of Calcutta where she attended the Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College.

Jinnah after obtaining a dental degree from University of Calcutta, she became a close associate and an adviser to her older brother Muhammad Ali Jinnah who latter became the first Governor General of Pakistan.

Francis William Maclean

His career in India included the chairmanship of famine relief committees in 1897, 1900 and 1907, as well as a short spell as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta between 1898 and 1900.

George Gilbert Swell

After passing the Bachelor of arts examination from the Scottish Church College, Kolkata, he took his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1945.

Gita Dey

For her lifetime contributions to Bengali cinema, in 1998 she received a star medal from the University of Calcutta from the then Governor of West Bengal Saiyid Nurul Hasan.

Hermann Jacobi

Among the honours he received were a doctorate from the University of Calcutta where he had gone in the winter of 1913-14 to lecture on poetics, while the Jain community conferred the title Jain Darshan Divakar — Sun of the Jain doctrine — upon him.

Jitendra Nath Mohanty

In his long academic career, he had taught at the University of Burdwan, University of Calcutta, New School for Social Research, University of Oklahoma, and Temple University and has held visiting professorships at many renowned universities.

Kamal Guha

Born at Dinhata on January 20, 1928, he passed his matriculation from Dinhata High School where former president of Bangladesh, Hossain Mohammad Ershad was his classmate, and passed Intermediate Arts from Victoria College (now Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) in Cooch Behar, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah

He served as a Senator of the University of Calcutta, and was especially active in the movement to establish the University of Dhaka.

Krittivasi Ramayan

Extant manuscripts are presently stored in universities such as the University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Burdwan, North Bengal University, in West Bengal.

Maimansingha Gitika

Chandra Kumar De and Dinesh Chandra Sen collected the songs, and Dinesh Chandra Sen was the editor; the collection was published by the University of Calcutta, along with another similar publication named Purbabanga-gitika.

Maitreyi Devi

She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.

Mohit Banerji

Mohit Banerji’s formative years were spent in West Bengal, having been educated at Midnapore Collegiate School followed by tertiary undergraduate study at the University of Calcutta.

Muhammad Ali Bogra

Grew up in East-Pakistan and educated at the Calcutta University of India, Bogra was one of the core and principle Founding Fathers of current and modern state of Pakistan, responsible for leading the Muslim League in East Pakistan, in charge of party's foreign directorate.

Born at Bogra to a Muslim family descended from the Nawabs of Bengal, he was a grandson of Nawab Bahadur Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury and attended the University of Calcutta and followed his education with a career in politics.

Nalini Ranjan Sarkar

Subsequently, he joined the City College, Calcutta, of the University of Calcutta but could not continue his studies for financial reasons.

Pabitra Kumar Giri

He graduated from the Scottish Church College, and the University of Calcutta, from where he earned his doctorate in economics.

Pradip Chatterjee

An engineering graduate from the prestigious Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, he joined the Calcutta engineering firm M.N. Dastur & Company (P) Ltd, after the break-up of Moheener Ghoraguli.

Ravi Shukla

Ravi attended Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah and graduated from St Xavier's College, as a student of the University of Calcutta.

Rupam Islam

Education went hand-in-hand with music, and he graduated from Asutosh College, an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta with honors in English literature.

Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan, University of Calcutta

Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan (also known as Alipore Campus) is a University college for post graduate studies under University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Shiba P. Chatterjee

Shiba Prasad Chatterjee (February 22, 1903 – February 27, 1989) was a Professor of Geography at the University of Calcutta.

Suri Vidyasagar College

It was formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

Tridib Chaudhuri

He passed his BA examination in 1933 and subsequently MA in economics from the University of Calcutta as an external candidate from jail, when he was imprisoned for sedition against the colonial rule.

Zelman Cowen

He was Emeritus Professor of Law at Melbourne and the Tagore Professor of Law at the University of Calcutta.


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