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		Presidency College was established as Hindu College, on January 20, 1817 in Calcutta, the capital of British India.
		Since Presidency College was the first college to be affiliated to the University, it became an institution preparing candidates for the BA examination.
		The college soon expanded its campus and the present edifice was officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor on 31 March, 1874 in the presence of the Viceroy.
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	Presidency College, Kolkata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since Presidency College was the first college to be affiliated to the University, it became an institution preparing candidates for the BA examination.
		The college soon expanded its campus and the present edifice was officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor on 31 March 1874 in the presence of the Viceroy.
		New dimensions were added to the college with the reorganisation of the Library in 1908 and the introduction of a college union in 1914.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Presidency_College,_Kolkata (2072 words)

	Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Calcutta was the most populous city in India until the 1980s, when it was overtaken by Bombay.
		Calcutta was also home to the poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindu social reformers Raja Ram Mohun Roy (founder of the Brahmo Samaj), Keshub Chunder Sen, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, David Hare (of Calcutta), Alexander Duff, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, William Carey and Mutty Lal Seal.
		Calcutta boasts of one of the largest race courses of its kind in Asia, the finest golf courses of its kind in the world (Royal Calcutta Golf Club) and one of the most beautiful tennis courts in the world (South Club).
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	Bengal Engineering College Alumni Association
		In 1880, the college was shifted to its present campus at Shibpur, Howrah, and was christened the 'Government College, Howrah,' in the premises of Bishop's College.
		The college celebrated its gala centenary function inaugurated by Dr. B.C. Roy on the 25th of December, 1956 and concluding session was graced by Pandit Jawarlal Nehru on 14th January, 1957.
		College of Engineering, Pune, which was established in the year 1854 is one of the oldest and premier engineering institutions in the country.
	www.becollege.org /History/history.asp (1366 words)

	Calcutta travel guide
		Calcutta, also famous as the "City of Joy" is one of the largest city of India and the capital of West Bengal.
		Calcutta is a major railhead and is linked to all parts of the country by an extensive network of trains.
		Calcutta is also connected by road to most parts of the country but journey on road is not recomended unless for shorter journeys, (maximum up to North Bengal).
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	Calcuttaweb - People : Jagadish Chandra Bose
		A distinguished student, he began attending St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta in 1875 and received the BA degree from Calcutta University in 1877.
		Many of his students at the Presidency College were destined to become famous in their own right - for example S.N. Bose, later to become well known for the Bose-Einstein statistics.
		Bose retired in 1915 and was appointed Emeritus Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta, for a period of 5 years.
	www.calcuttaweb.com /people/jcbose.shtml (799 words)

	:::Presidency College, Kolkata :::
		The illustrious history of academic excellence of Presidency College, Kolkata is intimately entwined with the intellectual history of Bengal and India.
		The college was renamed as Presidency College and brought under the direct control of the Government in 1855.
		The college was founded with the expressed intention of providing modern education to the Indian students.
	www.presidencycollegekolkata.org (161 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Presidency College has had the largest contingent of students sent to the ISI from any one college every year since the inception of the MS (QE) course.
		Presidency College was the building adjacent to ours and situated within the same compound.
		Presidency College has had the distinction of producing many eminent personalities, a record it will find hard to match now.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1020902/asp/opinion/story_1152937.asp (1007 words)

	Personality - Jagdishcahndra Basu
		The 1895 public demonstration by Basu in Calcutta predates all these experiments.By about the end of the 19th century, the interests of Basu turned away from electromagnetic waves to response phenomena in plants.
		He retired from the Presidency College in 1915, but was appointed Professor Emeritus.
		After an education at St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta followed by Cambridge and London Universities, he became the first Indian Professor of Physics at Presidency College – at two-thirds the salary of British professors.
	www.calcuttayellowpages.com /jagdishch.html (467 words)

	Barnard College Newscenter
		Born in Santiniketan, India, in the present state of West Bengal, you received your undergraduate education at Presidency College in Calcutta, and earned your doctorate at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1959.
		You are a leading voice for the alleviation of deprivations and the reduction of inequalities of all kinds, and have shown special concern for those related to gender.
		You count among your posts the past presidencies of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the International Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, and the Development Studies Association.
	www.barnard.edu /newnews/news051705.html (361 words)

	Presidency College closed over sexual harrassment charges
		CALCUTTA, AUG 7: In the first ever incident of its kind, Presidency College, Calcutta's premier institution, was closed sine die today following a students' agitation over the alleged molestation of a girl student by a teacher.
		The closure of the college came in the wake of the principal having been gheraoed in his office last night.
		The students also demanded that the college authorities should file an FIR against the teacher.What seemed to have fuelled the students' anger was another teacher's statement that if the probe couldn't prove the guilt of the teacher, the student who had accused the teacher of `molestation' should be strictly dealt with.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990808/ige08014.html (228 words)

	Dr Rajendra Prasad
		He passed the Entrance examination of the Calcutta University at the age of eighteen, in 1902, standing first in the first division.
		In the April 1917 AICC session, held in Calcutta, Gandhiji and Rajendra Prasad sat very close to each other but he did not know that Gandhiji was to be taken to his residence in Patna on his way to Champaran.
		Nationalist India expressed its admiration by electing him to be the President of the Bombay session of the Indian National congress.
	www.congresssandesh.com /AICC/history/presidents/dr_rajendra_prasad.htm (929 words)

	Presidency College Kolkata, Presidency College Calcutta, Presidency College, Presidency College Kolkata India, Top ...
		Presidency College, Kolkata is one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges of India.
		It was later renamed as Presidency College in 1855.
		Presidency College was one of the first colleges in India to admit female students with the first girl student attending class in 1897.
	www.mapsofindia.com /kolkata/presidency-college-kolkata.html (210 words)

	Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta,is the oldest among its counterparts in this country and is one of the pioneering departments in the world in introducing Statistics as a separate and distinct descipline of study.
		It was created in 1941 in co-operation with Indian Statistical Institute and Presidency college, Calcutta, with professor P.C. Mahalanobis as the Honourary Head.
		Beginning its journey in July 1941 at Presidency college premises, the Department shifted to Asutosh Building of the College Street Campus of the University in 1945 and subsequently to its present location in the Ballygunge Science College Campus in 1964.
	www.custat.org /history.html (218 words)

	Welcome to Kayastha Parivar
		Dr. Rajendra Prasad, son of Mahadev Sahai, was born in Zeradei village in Bihar on December 3, 1884.
		He stood first in the entrance examination of the University of Calcutta and was awarded a Rs.
		The partition of Bengal in 1905 fueled the swadeshi and boycott movements.
	www.kayasthaparivar.org /prominent_personalitieshtm.htm (792 words)

	Scottish Church College, Calcutta - Definition, explanation
		The inception of what is now known as the Scottish Church College is intertwined with the life of Dr. Alexander Duff, D. (1806-1878), the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland, to India.
		Duff played a leading part in founding the University of Calcutta in 1857, he was associated with the Agro-horticultural Society and the establishment of a medical college, the first in India.
		The aims and principles of the College are essentially those of its founder namely, the formation of character through education based on Christian teaching.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sc/scottish_church_college__calcutta.php (1067 words)

	Indiatimes Learning..........Campus/Presidency, Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the college was exclusively for the Hindus, the government soon started facing problems.
		Thus, a proposal was made to establish another college called Calcutta College or Metropolitan College, open to all the sections of society.
		Hindu College was closed on April 15, 1855.
	learning.indiatimes.com /campus/pages/college/presipro.htm (203 words)

	Presidency bullish about 2006
		Presidency College authorities feel that knowledge of bulls and bears is essential if students want to find plum jobs with financial institutions after completing post-graduate studies in applied economics.
		Presidency is also trying to obtain the best grade possible from the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) which is expected to send its peer team to the college soon.
		Presidency, though rated as one of the top collges of India, is yet to get a NAAC certificate which will bring in ample funds for the college’s development.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=163608 (356 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		The coffee house of college Street, Calcutta, at one time known as Albert Hall, is a meeting place of social reformers, intellectuals, professors, students, poets and betrayed lovers.
		And it was no wonder that Amartya Sen, an undergraduate student at Presidency college in the early fifties just opposite the historical Coffee House, was a frequent visitor to the same place among fellow budding economists and scientists, often concerned with ethical questions facing mathematical economics.
		The good thing about Sen is that, unlike other Calcutta socialists, he is aware of the goodness of the private sector as well as raising life expectancy and other aspects of quality of life.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/100199/Features/SE23.html (822 words)

	:: Indian national congress - Past Presidents :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His first important appearance in politics was in 1905 when he presided over a meeting held in the Calcutta Town Hall to protest against the offensive remarks of Lord Curzon at the Convocation ceremony of the Calcutta University.
		In 1906 he was the Chairman of the Reception Committee when the Congress held its annual session in Calcutta.
		A moderate in politics, he took a prominent part in the Swadeshi movement which he considered to be based on "love of our own country, not on hatred of the foreigner".
	www.aicc.org.in /rashbihari_ghosh.htm (589 words)

	Organiser - Content
		In 1885, as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Presidency College, Calcutta, he refused to draw his salary for three years because he was offered only half the salary as that of an Englishman for the same post.
		He learnt how the fisher folk moved on the wide rivers in their boats, how the fishing rod was cast in the flowing water, how they grew the crops and how the cattle were taken to graze on the distant hills.
		Many of his students at the Presidency College were destined to become famous in their own right and one among them was Sathyendra Nath Bose, later to become well known for the Bose-Einstein statistics.
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	Presidency College, Kolkata - Definition, explanation
		Located at 86/1, College Street, in Kolkata, India, Presidency College, Calcutta offers undergraduate and graduate degree courses in natural sciences, humanities and social sciences.
		It was established as Hindu College, on January 20, 1817 in Calcutta, the capital of British India.
		Presidency College started its eventful journey in 1855.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pr/presidency_college__kolkata.php (1383 words)

	Bankimchandra Chatterji Biography / Biography of Bankimchandra Chatterji Biography
		Bankimchandra Chatterji was born on June 26, 1838, in the village of Kanthalpara near Calcutta.
		He was married at the age of 11 to a girl of 5 and in the same year, 1849, was enrolled in Hooghly College.
		At Hooghly College, and later at Presidency College, Calcutta, Bankimchandra's education became almost entirely Western, with an emphasis on science, history, language, law, and philosophy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-bankimchandra-chatterji (820 words)

	Amherst College News Releases: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sen's talk, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Amherst College and the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science, is free and open to the public.
		Educated at Presidency College in Calcutta, Sen went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
		He taught economics in India and England, at the Universities of Jadavpur and Delhi, the London School of Economics, the University of London, the University of Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/04/sen04.html (241 words)

	eWENR, July/August 2000: Asia & Pacific
		The college, founded in 1987, has endeavored to improve the quality of enrollment by recruiting more students who have passed the national entrance exam and by establishing more four-year bachelor degree programs.
		The college has pursued a different approach to higher education than most of the state-run schools by providing a combination of language and hands-on training with the aim of better preparing students for an increasingly globalized job market.
		The respondents were asked to rate each college from 0 to 100 on the basis of reputation, curriculum, academic input, student care, admission procedure, infrastructure and job/placement opportunities.
	www.wes.org /ewenr/00july/asiapacific.htm (1487 words)

	I.S.I.Calcutta Prospectus of 2000-2001
		The Institute in Calcutta, its two centres in Delhi and Bangalore, and a network of service-cum-research units in other cities in India have many experienced and highly qualified personnel in SQC and OR.
		In Calcutta, where the headquarters of the Institute is located, there are strong groups of scientists in many other disciplines, such as, computer science, population studies, physics, chemistry, agriculture including fishery science, botany, embryology, biochemical epidemiology, nutrition and health, geology, anthropology and human genetics, biometry, linguistics, psychometry and sociology.
		The Institute campus in Calcutta is about 12 km from the city centre; the Bangalore and Delhi campuses are about 20 km from the respective city centres.
	www.isical.ac.in /~sdebasis/isipage/pros2000.html (10721 words)

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