Hooghly collegiate school
Hooghly Collegiate School is a school in Hooghly district, India.HistoryThe school was established in 1812.Its early provenance is sketchily documented in Karuņāsāgar Vidyāsāgar. The name of the school changed several times till it came to be known as 'Hooghly College,' and thence to 'Hooghly Collegiate School' when the college wing was created. The location had undergone some changes too (details and authentication needed). The so-called 'new building' (to the Shāņḍeśvartalā end of the prayer ground, to house the laboratories and the classes IX to XI of the new Higher Secondary scheme)and the crafts building were completed in 1956-57. The old building was Haji Mohammad Mohsin's personal property. It was rumoured to have a subterranean passage from below the main staircase to a ghat on river Bhāgīrathī on the lower terrace of the prayer ground; part of it had collapsed on its own and the school authority saw it fit to seal off the school-side entrance some time in the middle-fifties of the last century.CampusThe school building is located on the banks of Ganga at Chinsurah town, close to Hooghly Mohsin College. The main building shows 200 years of British rulingNotable alumni Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (Historian) Syed Amir Ali Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (1861-1907)(1874 – Admitted into Hooghly Collegiate School)External links http://www.hooghlycollegiateschool.org/
