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'''Bethune College''' is a women's college located on ] in ], India, and affiliated to the ]. It is the oldest women's college in India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=LBR|first=Team|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c79aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT161|title=Limca Book of Records: India at Her Best|date=2018-05-05|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=9789351952404|pages=161|language=en}}</ref> It was established as a girls' school in 1849,<ref name="Bagal1">{{cite book|last=Bagal|first=Jogesh Chandra|title=Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949|publisher=Bethune College|year=1949|editor1-last=Nag|editor1-first=Kalidas|editor1-link=Kalidas Nag|pages=11–12|chapter=History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949)|author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal|editor2-last=Ghose|editor2-first=Lotika|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/BethuneSchoolAndCollegeCentenaryVolume18491949/page/n31}}</ref>{{rp|11–12}} and as a college in 1879.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bose|first=Anima|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7u4JAAAAMAAJ|title=Higher Education in India in the 19th Century: The American Involvement, 1883-1893|date=1978|publisher=Punthi Pustak|pages=249|language=en}}</ref>


==History==
'''Bethune College''' is a women's college in ]. It was founded as a school in 1849 by ] and in 1879 developed as the first women's college in India. It is located at 181, Bidhan Sarani, ] -700006, just opposite the current campus of ]. It is affiliated to the ].
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'''College Address : 181, Bidhan Sarani,Calcutta- 700006'''
The college was founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by ],<ref name="Chaudhuri1990">{{cite book |last=Acharya |first=Poromesh |chapter=Education in Old Calcutta |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=I: The Past |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=87 |isbn=978-0-19-563696-3}}</ref> with the financial support of Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee. The school started in Mukherjee's home in ], with 21 girls enrolled.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/BethuneSchoolAndCollegeCentenaryVolume18491949/page/n31 |editor1-last=Nag |editor1-first=Kalidas |editor1-link=Kalidas Nag |editor2-last=Ghose |editor2-first=Lotika |title=Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=11–12}}</ref> The following year, enrolment rose to 80.<ref name="Forbes1999">{{cite book |last1=Forbes |first1=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |year=1999 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA39 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=39 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0}}</ref> In November, on a plot on the west side of Cornwallis Square, the cornerstone for a permanent school building was laid. The name "Hindu Female School" was inscribed on the copper-plate placed in the stone and on the ceremonial silver trowel made for the occasion.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/BethuneSchoolAndCollegeCentenaryVolume18491949/page/n31 |editor1-last=Nag |editor1-first=Kalidas |editor1-link=Kalidas Nag |editor2-last=Ghose |editor2-first=Lotika |title=Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=15–16}}</ref> Support for the school waned after Bethune's death in August 1851.<ref name="Forbes1999" />
'''Telephone no: (033) 2241-1731'''


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For Information on Stamp released by the Indian Postal Dept. on Bethune College, see - http://www.indianpost.com/viewstamp.php/Color/Brown%20and%20Green/BETHUNE%20COLLEGE
The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.<ref name="Chaudhuri1990" /> In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women's college in India and Bethune school was Second (First being in Bhidewada Pune, by Jyotirao Phule) women's school in whole Asia.<ref name=":0" />
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== Famous ] ==
* ], First woman physician of ] to be trained in the ] system of ]
* ] - ] of State for Social Welfare, ], 1970-1972
* ], Principal of Bethune College and first woman head of a South Asian college
* ], - Vice President of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad and first woman honours graduate in India
*] - Revolutionary and martyr in the freedom struggle
*], freedom fighter
*], Playback singer
*] - Social worker, freedom fighter
*] - Actress and social activist


==Website== ==Rankings==
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The college is ranked 91st among colleges in India by the ] (NIRF) in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 NIRF Ranking |url=https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2024/pdf/Report/IR2024_Report.pdf}}</ref>


==External links== ==Notable alumnae==
*] (1861–1923), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire<ref name="Ray1990" />
* , from Banglapedia
*] (1860–1944), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire<ref name="Ray1990">{{cite book |last=Ray |first=Bharati |chapter=Women in Calcutta: The Years of Change |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=34 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}</ref>
* , from calonline.com
*] (1864–1951), social worker<ref name="Southard1993">{{cite journal |last=Southard |first=Barbara |date=May 1993 |title=Colonial Politics and Women's Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=405–406 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X00011549 |jstor=312775|s2cid=145276788 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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*Meenakshi Chatterjee (1957–2022), Applied Mathematician, and the 5th Indian Woman in Antarctica (as part of the Xth Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica, 1990–91); also the first scientist to represent the University of Calcutta
*] (1872–1945), promoter of female education
*] (1919–1987), social activist and writer
*] (1907–2000), freedom fighter nationalist<ref name="Ghosh2013">{{cite journal |last=Ghosh |first=Durba |date=August 2013 |title=Revolutionary Women and Nationalist Heroes in Bengal, 1930 to the 1980s |journal=Gender & History |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=355–375|doi=10.1111/1468-0424.12017 |s2cid=143325110 }}</ref>
*], social worker
*] (1911–1986), revolutionary and nationalist<ref name="Ghosh2013" />
*] (born 1978), transsexual actress
*] (1913–1995), independence activist<ref name="Ghosh2013" />
*] (1907–1983), freedom fighter and activist
*] (1855–1932), poet, novelist and social worker
*], first female ]
*] (1912–2008), freedom fighter and social worker
*], (b. 1984) mathematician, who has provided a solution to the ] Cancellation Problem
*] (1893–1980), completed her graduation in 1914 and became the first women graduate of Odisha.
*] (born 1952), academic linguist
*] (born 1925), politician
*] (1921–1995), political activist
*] (born 1897), teacher, school head in Midnapore
*](1886–1969), social worker and children's author
*] (1864–1933), poet, social worker and feminist<ref name="Southard1993" />
*] (1900–1970), politician and reformer
*], actress
*] (1901–1988), singer
*] (1911–1932), revolutionary nationalist


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* {{cite book |last=Borthwick|first=Meredith |year=2015 |title=The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQPWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |publisher=Princeton University Press |pages=74– |isbn=978-1-4008-4390-9}}
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* {{cite book |last=Ray |first=Bharati |year=2005 |title=Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=142HAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR44 |publisher=SAGE Publications |pages=187– |isbn=978-81-321-0264-9}}
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* {{cite book |last=Tattwabhushan |first=Sitanath |author-link=Sitanath Tattwabhushan |year=1904 |title=Social Reform in Bengal: A Side Sketch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CM3KAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA43 |location=Calcutta |publisher=City Book Society |pages=43–}}
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Latest revision as of 18:40, 16 September 2024

First women's college in Bengal For the constituent college of York University in Toronto, Canada, see York University § Colleges and residences. For the college in the United States, see Bethune-Cookman College.

Bethune College
Bethune School Building, c. 1949
MottoViddaya Vindatey Amritam
Motto in Englishknowledge provides immortal bliss
TypeWomen's college
Established1879; 145 years ago (1879)
AccreditationNAAC
AffiliationUniversity of Calcutta
PrincipalDr. Anushila Hazra Bhattacharya
LocationKolkata, West Bengal, India
22°35′18″N 88°22′04″E / 22.5882°N 88.3679°E / 22.5882; 88.3679
CampusUrban
Websitewww.bethunecollege.ac.in
Seal of the Bethune College

Bethune College is a women's college located on Bidhan Sarani in Kolkata, India, and affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It is the oldest women's college in India. It was established as a girls' school in 1849, and as a college in 1879.

History

Laying of the foundation stone at Cornwallis Square, November 1850
A 1999 stamp dedicated to the Bethune Collegiate School

The college was founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, with the financial support of Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee. The school started in Mukherjee's home in Baitakkhana, with 21 girls enrolled. The following year, enrolment rose to 80. In November, on a plot on the west side of Cornwallis Square, the cornerstone for a permanent school building was laid. The name "Hindu Female School" was inscribed on the copper-plate placed in the stone and on the ceremonial silver trowel made for the occasion. Support for the school waned after Bethune's death in August 1851.

Postage stamp of 1978 commemorating the centenary of Bethune College

The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63. In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women's college in India and Bethune school was Second (First being in Bhidewada Pune, by Jyotirao Phule) women's school in whole Asia.

Rankings

College rankings
General – India
NIRF (Colleges) (2021)77

The college is ranked 91st among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024.

Notable alumnae


See also

References

  1. ^ LBR, Team (5 May 2018). Limca Book of Records: India at Her Best. Hachette India. p. 161. ISBN 9789351952404.
  2. Bagal, Jogesh Chandra (1949). "History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949)". In Nag, Kalidas; Ghose, Lotika (eds.). Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949. Bethune College. pp. 11–12.
  3. Bose, Anima (1978). Higher Education in India in the 19th Century: The American Involvement, 1883-1893. Punthi Pustak. p. 249.
  4. ^ Acharya, Poromesh (1990). "Education in Old Calcutta". In Chaudhuri, Sukanta (ed.). Calcutta: The Living City. Vol. I: The Past. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-19-563696-3.
  5. Bagal, Jogesh Chandra (1949). "History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949)". In Nag, Kalidas; Ghose, Lotika (eds.). Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949. Bethune College. pp. 11–12.
  6. ^ Forbes, Geraldine Hancock (1999). Women in Modern India. The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. IV.2. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-521-65377-0.
  7. Bagal, Jogesh Chandra (1949). "History of the Bethune School & College (1849–1949)". In Nag, Kalidas; Ghose, Lotika (eds.). Bethune School & College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949. Bethune College. pp. 15–16.
  8. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2021 (Colleges)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 9 September 2021.
  9. "2024 NIRF Ranking" (PDF).
  10. ^ Ray, Bharati (1990). "Women in Calcutta: The Years of Change". In Chaudhuri, Sukanta (ed.). Calcutta: The Living City. Vol. II: The Present and Future. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-563697-0.
  11. ^ Southard, Barbara (May 1993). "Colonial Politics and Women's Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s". Modern Asian Studies. 27 (2): 405–406. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00011549. JSTOR 312775. S2CID 145276788.
  12. ^ Ghosh, Durba (August 2013). "Revolutionary Women and Nationalist Heroes in Bengal, 1930 to the 1980s". Gender & History. 25 (2): 355–375. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12017. S2CID 143325110.

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