Hooghly Collegiate School

The school was established in 1812. Its early provenance is sketchily documented in Karuņāsāgar Vidyāsāgar, quoting from 'Education Committee' reports, periodicals and other print media of that period. The name of the school too had changed once or twice, till it came to be known as 'Hooghly College', and thence '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 Ṣāṇḍeśvar Talā end of the prayer ground, to house the laboratories and the classes IX to XI of the new Higher Secondary scheme)and the box-like, stand-alone crafts-cum-smithy building were completed in 1956-57. The oldest building of the school and part of the adjoining Mohsin College were Haji Mohammad Mohsin's personal property. It was rumoured to have a subterranean passage, purpose unknown, from below the main staircase of the old building to a ghat on river Bhāgīrathī on the lower terrace of the prayer ground (which had two walled terraces); part of the tunnel 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.

Notable alumni

Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
Syed Amir Ali
Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (1861-1907)(1874 – Admitted into Hooghly Collegiate School)