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3 unusual facts about Surendranath College


Birendranath Sasmal

He passed the Entrance Examination in 1900 and got admission into Ripon College of Calcutta for higher education.

Sachindra Prasad Bose

On 4 November 1905, when he was a fourth year student of Ripon College, Calcutta, he took initiative to form the Anti-Circular Society in protest against the circular issued by R. W. Carlyle, then Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal instructing Magistrates and Collectors to take stern measures against the students involved in politics.

Surendranath College

Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World's Religions.



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