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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| principal = &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Professor Krishna Roy&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| principal = &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Dr. Anushila Hazra Bhattacharya&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Founding of a Hindoo female school in Cornwallis-Square at Calcutta.jpg|thumb|Laying of the foundation stone at Cornwallis Square, November 1850]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Founding of a Hindoo female school in Cornwallis-Square at Calcutta.jpg|thumb|Laying of the foundation stone at Cornwallis Square, November 1850]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Bethune College 1999 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A 1999 stamp dedicated to the Bethune Collegiate School]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Bethune College 1999 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A 1999 stamp dedicated to the Bethune Collegiate School]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The college was founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by [[John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune]],&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Chaudhuri1990&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Volume &lt;/del&gt;I: The Past |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=87 |isbn=978-0-19-563696-3}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; with the financial support of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/del&gt;Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;. The school started in Mukherjee&#039;s home in [[Bowbazar|Baitakkhana]], with 21 girls enrolled.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=11–12}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The following year, enrolment rose to 80.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Forbes1999&quot;&amp;gt;{{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&amp;amp;pg=PA39 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=39 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In November, on a plot on the west side of Cornwallis Square, the cornerstone for a permanent school building was laid. The name &quot;Hindu Female School&quot; was inscribed on the copper-plate placed in the stone and on the ceremonial silver trowel made for the occasion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=15–16}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Support for the school waned after Bethune&#039;s death in August 1851.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Forbes1999&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The college was founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by [[John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune]],&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Chaudhuri1990&quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; with the financial support of Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee. The school started in Mukherjee&#039;s home in [[Bowbazar|Baitakkhana]], with 21 girls enrolled.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=11–12}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The following year, enrolment rose to 80.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Forbes1999&quot;&amp;gt;{{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&amp;amp;pg=PA39 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=39 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In November, on a plot on the west side of Cornwallis Square, the cornerstone for a permanent school building was laid. The name &quot;Hindu Female School&quot; was inscribed on the copper-plate placed in the stone and on the ceremonial silver trowel made for the occasion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=15–16}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Support for the school waned after Bethune&#039;s death in August 1851.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Forbes1999&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Chaudhuri1990&quot; /&amp;gt; In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women&#039;s college in India and Bethune school was &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;first &lt;/del&gt;women&#039;s school in whole Asia.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[File:Stamp of India - 1978 - Colnect 711272 - Centenary of Bethune College Calcutta.jpeg|thumb|Postage stamp of 1978 commemorating the centenary of Bethune College]]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Chaudhuri1990&quot; /&amp;gt; In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women&#039;s college in India and Bethune school was &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Second (First being in Bhidewada Pune, by Jyotirao Phule) &lt;/ins&gt;women&#039;s school in whole Asia.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Rankings==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Rankings==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l75&quot;&gt;Line 75:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 76:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Notable alumnae==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Notable alumnae==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Kadambini Ganguly]] (1861–1923), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ray1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Kadambini Ganguly]] (1861–1923), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ray1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Chandramukhi Basu]] (1860–1944), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ray1990&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Volume &lt;/del&gt;II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=34 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Chandramukhi Basu]] (1860–1944), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ray1990&quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Abala Bose]] (1864–1951), social worker&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Southard1993&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;book &lt;/del&gt;|last=Southard |first=Barbara |date=May 1993 |title=Colonial Politics and Women&#039;s Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=405–406 |jstor=312775}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Abala Bose]] (1864–1951), social worker&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Southard1993&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;journal &lt;/ins&gt;|last=Southard |first=Barbara |date=May 1993 |title=Colonial Politics and Women&#039;s Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=405–406 &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|doi=10.1017/S0026749X00011549 &lt;/ins&gt;|jstor=312775&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|s2cid=145276788 &lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Sarala Devi Chaudhurani]] (1872–1945), promoter of female education&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Sarala Devi Chaudhurani]] (1872–1945), promoter of female education&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Anwara Bahar Chowdhury]] (1919–1987), social activist and writer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Anwara Bahar Chowdhury]] (1919–1987), social activist and writer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Kamala Das Gupta]] (1907–2000), freedom fighter nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;book &lt;/del&gt;|last=Ghosh |first=Durba |date=August 2013 |title=Revolutionary Women and Nationalist Heroes in Bengal, 1930 to the 1980s |journal=Gender &amp;amp; History |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=355–375}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Kamala Das Gupta]] (1907–2000), freedom fighter nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;journal &lt;/ins&gt;|last=Ghosh |first=Durba |date=August 2013 |title=Revolutionary Women and Nationalist Heroes in Bengal, 1930 to the 1980s |journal=Gender &amp;amp; History |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=355–375&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|doi=10.1111/1468-0424.12017 |s2cid=143325110 &lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Amalprava Das]], social worker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Amalprava Das]], social worker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Bina Das]] (1911–1986), revolutionary and nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh2013&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[Bina Das]] (1911–1986), revolutionary and nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh2013&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l116&quot;&gt;Line 116:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 117:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;{{Commons category|Bethune College}}&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://bethuneadmissions.ac.in/ Official website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://bethuneadmissions.ac.in/ Official website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l125&quot;&gt;Line 125:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 126:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Universities and colleges in Kolkata]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Universities and colleges in Kolkata]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Schools in Colonial India]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Schools in Colonial India]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:History of Kolkata]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Women&amp;#039;s universities and colleges in West Bengal]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Women&amp;#039;s universities and colleges in West Bengal]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:University of Calcutta affiliates]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:University of Calcutta affiliates]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1849]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1849]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>&gt;Kulbhushan Jhadav at 07:03, 10 September 2021</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l13&quot;&gt;Line 13:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Chaudhuri1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women&amp;#039;s college in India and Bethune school was first women&amp;#039;s school in whole Asia.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Chaudhuri1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women&amp;#039;s college in India and Bethune school was first women&amp;#039;s school in whole Asia.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|NIRF_C_2021=77&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Bethune College has ranked 77th among colleges in India by the [[National Institutional Ranking Framework]] (NIRF) in 2021.&amp;lt;ref name=Rankings_NIRF_C_2021 /&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{short description|First women&amp;#039;s college in Bengal}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{about||the [[Residential college|constituent college]] of York University in [[Toronto|Toronto, Canada]] |York University#Colleges and residences|the college in the United States|Bethune-Cookman College}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}&lt;br /&gt;
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| caption = Bethune School Building, {{c.|1949}}&lt;br /&gt;
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| motto = Viddaya Vindatey Amritam&lt;br /&gt;
| mottoeng = knowledge provides immortal bliss&lt;br /&gt;
| established = {{start date and age|1879}}&lt;br /&gt;
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| type = [[Women&amp;#039;s college]]&lt;br /&gt;
| affiliation = [[University of Calcutta]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| principal = Professor Krishna Roy&lt;br /&gt;
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| city = [[Kolkata]]&lt;br /&gt;
| state = [[West Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| country = India&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bethune College&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a women&amp;#039;s college located on [[Bidhan Sarani]] in [[Kolkata]], India, and affiliated to the [[University of Calcutta]]. It is the oldest women&amp;#039;s college in India.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book|last=LBR|first=Team|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c79aDwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT161|title=Limca Book of Records: India at Her Best|date=2018-05-05|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=9789351952404|pages=161|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It was established as a girls&amp;#039; school in 1849,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Bagal1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Bagal|first=Jogesh Chandra|title=Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College (1849–1949)|author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal|editor2-last=Ghose|editor2-first=Lotika|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/BethuneSchoolAndCollegeCentenaryVolume18491949/page/n31}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{rp|11–12}} and as a college in 1879.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Founding of a Hindoo female school in Cornwallis-Square at Calcutta.jpg|thumb|Laying of the foundation stone at Cornwallis Square, November 1850]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Bethune College 1999 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A 1999 stamp dedicated to the Bethune Collegiate School]]&lt;br /&gt;
The college was founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by [[John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune]],&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Chaudhuri1990&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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=Volume I: The Past |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=87 |isbn=978-0-19-563696-3}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; with the financial support of [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]]. The school started in Mukherjee&amp;#039;s home in [[Bowbazar|Baitakkhana]], with 21 girls enrolled.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=11–12}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The following year, enrolment rose to 80.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Forbes1999&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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&amp;amp;pg=PA39 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=39 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In November, on a plot on the west side of Cornwallis Square, the cornerstone for a permanent school building was laid. The name &amp;quot;Hindu Female School&amp;quot; was inscribed on the copper-plate placed in the stone and on the ceremonial silver trowel made for the occasion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Bagal |first=Jogesh Chandra |author-link=Jogesh Chandra Bagal |year=1949 |chapter=History of the Bethune School &amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp; College Centenary Volume, 1849–1949 |publisher=Bethune College |pages=15–16}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Support for the school waned after Bethune&amp;#039;s death in August 1851.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Forbes1999&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The government took it over in 1856, renaming it Bethune School after its founder in 1862–63.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Chaudhuri1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In 1879 it was developed into Bethune College, the first women&amp;#039;s college in India and Bethune school was first women&amp;#039;s school in whole Asia.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Notable alumnae==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kadambini Ganguly]] (1861–1923), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ray1990&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Chandramukhi Basu]] (1860–1944), one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ray1990&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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=Volume II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=34 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abala Bose]] (1864–1951), social worker&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Southard1993&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Southard |first=Barbara |date=May 1993 |title=Colonial Politics and Women&amp;#039;s Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=405–406 |jstor=312775}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sarala Devi Chaudhurani]] (1872–1945), promoter of female education&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Anwara Bahar Chowdhury]] (1919–1987), social activist and writer&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kamala Das Gupta]] (1907–2000), freedom fighter nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh2013&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Durba |date=August 2013 |title=Revolutionary Women and Nationalist Heroes in Bengal, 1930 to the 1980s |journal=Gender &amp;amp; History |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=355–375}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Amalprava Das]], social worker&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Bina Das]] (1911–1986), revolutionary and nationalist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh2013&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Tista Das]] (born 1978), transsexual actress&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kalpana Datta]] (1913–1995), independence activist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh2013&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Mira Datta Gupta]] (1907–1983), freedom fighter and activist&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Swarnakumari Devi]] (1855–1932), poet, novelist and social worker&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Begum Khaleda Zia]], first female [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] &lt;br /&gt;
*[[Ashoka Gupta]] (1912–2008), freedom fighter and social worker&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Neena Gupta (mathematician)|Neena Gupta]], (b. 1984) mathematician, who has provided a solution to the [[Oscar Zariski|Zariski]] Cancellation Problem&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Aditi Lahiri]] (born 1952), academic linguist&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abha Maiti]] (born 1925), politician&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kanak Mukherjee]] (1921–1995), political activist&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Khanto Bala Rai]] (born 1897), teacher, school head in Midnapore&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Shukhalata Rao]](1886–1969), social worker and children&amp;#039;s author&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kamini Roy]] (1864–1933), poet, social worker and feminist&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Southard1993&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Leela Roy]] (1900–1970), politician and reformer&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Shobha Sen]], actress&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Amiya Tagore]] (1901–1988), singer&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Pritilata Waddedar]] (1911–1932), revolutionary nationalist&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[List of colleges affiliated to the University of Calcutta]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Education in India]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Education in West Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* {{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&amp;amp;pg=PA74 |publisher=Princeton University Press |pages=74– |isbn=978-1-4008-4390-9}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{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&amp;amp;pg=PR44 |publisher=SAGE Publications |pages=187– |isbn=978-81-321-0264-9}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{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&amp;amp;pg=PA43 |location=Calcutta |publisher=City Book Society |pages=43–}}&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://bethuneadmissions.ac.in/ Official website]&lt;br /&gt;
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