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	[[File:Oriental Seminary.jpg\|thumb\|Oriental Seminary, Kolkata]]		[[File:Oriental Seminary.jpg\|thumb\|Oriental Seminary, Kolkata]]
	The '''Oriental Seminary''' started in 1829 by the educator Gour Mohan Addy, was the earliest privately run, first-rate school for children of Hindu parents in [[Kolkata]] (then known as Calcutta). It was open only to boys of Hindu parents.<ref>[[David Kopf\|Kopf, David]], ''The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind'', p. 49, Princeton University Press.</ref> It was possibly India’s first fully private school, as even [[Hindu School, Kolkata\|Hindu School]], then known as Hindu College, and also [[Hare school]] had to abide by certain government guidelines.<ref name = "Telegraph">{{cite news \| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp \| title = Pages from past lessons \| access-date = 2007-05-04 \| last = Roy \| first = Subhajoy \| publisher = The Telegraph, 13 January 2006 \| location=Calcutta, India \| date=13 January 2006}}</ref> In earlier days, students wanting to study [[English language\|English]] had to go to the missionary schools, where they were subject to substantial religious influence. The establishment of a school for learning English, free from religious influences was a major contribution of Addy.<ref name = "Bose147">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, {{in lang\|bn}}, p. 147, {{ISBN\|81-85626-65-0}}</ref>		The '''Oriental Seminary''' started in 1829 by the educator [[Gour Mohan Addy]], was the earliest privately run, first-rate school for children of Hindu parents in [[Kolkata]] (then known as Calcutta).<ref name="Telegraph" /><ref>{{cite news\|date=20 February 2005\|title=Buddha woe over English\|publisher=The Telegraph, 20 February 2005\|location=Calcutta, India\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050220/asp/bengal/story_4401854.asp\|url-status=dead\|access-date=2007-05-04\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050306225656/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1050220/asp/bengal/story_4401854.asp\|archive-date=March 6, 2005}}</ref> It was open only to boys of Hindu parents.<ref>[[David Kopf\|Kopf, David]], ''The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind'', p. 49, Princeton University Press.</ref> It was possibly India’s first fully private school, as even [[Hindu School, Kolkata\|Hindu School]], then known as Hindu College, and also [[Hare school]] had to abide by certain government guidelines.<ref name = "Telegraph">{{cite news \| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp \| title = Pages from past lessons \| access-date = 2007-05-04 \| last = Roy \| first = Subhajoy \| publisher = The Telegraph, 13 January 2006 \| location=Calcutta, India \| date=13 January 2006\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604214137/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp\|archivedate=June 4, 2011}}</ref> In earlier days, students wanting to study [[English language\|English]] had to go to the missionary schools, where they were subject to substantial religious influence. The establishment of a school for learning English, free from religious influences was a major contribution of Addy.<ref name = "Bose147">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, {{in lang\|bn}}, p. 147, {{ISBN\|81-85626-65-0}}</ref>
	Traditional Indian education centres which taught [[Sanskrit]] and/or [[Persian language\|Persian]] had started fading out.		Traditional Indian education centres which taught [[Sanskrit]] and/or [[Persian language\|Persian]] had started fading out.

	~~==The school==~~
	The school was first located at Benshohata. Thereafter, it shifted its location thrice before moving into the present building on Rabindra Sarani (earlier known as Chitpur Road) in [[Jorasanko]], often wrongly referred to as [[Chitpur]]. It was inaugurated by the governor of Bengal, [[Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael\|Lord Carmichael]], in 1914. Its monthly fee of Rs 3 compared to Hindu School's Rs. 5 helped it to draw more students.<ref name = "Telegraph"/>

	In 1836, a morning session for the infants was started. Bengali was introduced as a medium of instruction in 1839. By popular demand, three branches of the institution were set up in Chitpur, Bhowanipur and Belghoria. The school opened a girls' section in 1934. The higher secondary section of the school became co-educational in 1991. The building, constructed by [[Martin Burn]], was declared a heritage structure in 1999.<ref name = "Telegraph"/>

	The first president of Indian National Congress, barrister W.C.Bonnerjee was an ex-student and the first president of the governing body of the school till his death in 1906. He was succeeded by [[Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee]] who was associated with the school as the president of its governing body from 1907 to 1922. Annie Besant was the president of the annual function of the school in 1926.<ref>{{cite news
	~~\| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050220/asp/bengal/story_4401854.asp~~
	~~\| title = Buddha woe over English~~
	~~\| access-date = 2007-05-04~~
	~~\| publisher = The Telegraph, 20 February 2005~~
	~~\| location=Calcutta, India~~
	~~\| date=20 February 2005~~
	~~}}</ref>~~

	==The founder and teachers==		==The founder and teachers==
	Gour Mohan Addy (20 January 1805 – 3 March 1846) ~~started~~ the school without ~~any support from the~~ government. ~~For the~~ junior classes, ~~he appointed Eurasians, in the intermediate classes he had~~ Bengali teachers ~~and~~ for ~~the upper~~ classes ~~he appointed highly qualified~~ Englishmen or Bengalis. He died in a ~~boat~~ accident in the [[Hooghly river]], when returning from [[Serampore]]~~, after searching for~~ a teacher ~~for his school~~.<ref name = "Bose147~~"/>~~		Gour Mohan Addy (20 January 1805 – 3 March 1846) founded the school without government funding. He appointed teachers to each class level by their ethnicity: Eurasian teachers for junior classes, Bengali teachers for intermediate classes, and Englishmen or Bengalis for upper levels. He died in a boating accident on the [[Hooghly river]], when returning from a trip to [[Serampore]] to hire a teacher.<ref name = "Bose147"/>

	~~Shakespearean scholar Captain D.L. Richardson taught English in the school.<ref name = "Telegraph~~"/>

	Currently the principal of the primary section is Rina Basak Halder		Currently the principal of the primary section is Rina Basak Halder.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2022}}

	==Notable alumni==		==Notable alumni==
	Oriental Seminary was the earliest school [[Rabindranath Tagore]] attended.<ref name=Life>[http://www.inewsone.com/2011/05/08/life-of-rabindranath-tagore-at-a-glance/49023 Life of Rabindranath Tagore at a glance]</ref> The first experience of school aroused in the youngster the yearning to be a teacher. Wielding a stick, he used to teach from the railings in the big veranda of the palatial [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].<ref>Banerjee, Hiranmay, ''Thakurbarir Katha'', {{in lang\|bn}}, p. 124, Sishu Sahitya Sansad]</ref><ref name="Tagore">{{cite web \| url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1150507/jsp/calcutta/story_18658.jsp#.VfCzp5fhXIU \| title=Treasure trove at Tagore's school \| first=Chandreyee \| last=Ghose \| date=7 May 2015 \| newspaper=Telegraph \| location=India \| access-date=17 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Past">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp]</ref>		Oriental Seminary was the earliest school [[Rabindranath Tagore]] attended.<ref name=Life>[http://www.inewsone.com/2011/05/08/life-of-rabindranath-tagore-at-a-glance/49023 Life of Rabindranath Tagore at a glance]</ref> The first experience of school aroused in the youngster the yearning to be a teacher. Wielding a stick, he used to teach from the railings in the big veranda of the palatial [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].<ref>Banerjee, Hiranmay, ''Thakurbarir Katha'', {{in lang\|bn}}, p. 124, Sishu Sahitya Sansad]</ref><ref name="Tagore">{{cite web \| url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1150507/jsp/calcutta/story_18658.jsp#.VfCzp5fhXIU \| title=Treasure trove at Tagore's school \| first=Chandreyee \| last=Ghose \| date=7 May 2015 \| newspaper=Telegraph \| location=India \| access-date=17 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Past">{{cite web \|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp \|title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro \|website=www.telegraphindia.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909164915/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp \|archive-date=2006-09-09}} </ref>

	Among the list of other notable alumni are [[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]],<ref>{{cite book		Among the list of other notable alumni are [[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]],<ref>{{cite book
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	\|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rYSXPg9GUpwC		\|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rYSXPg9GUpwC
	\|ISBN = 978-0199865901}}</ref> [[Kristo Das Pal\|Krishnadas Pal]], [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]], [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]], Sir [[Gooroodas Banerjee]], [[Sambhunath Pandit]], [[Vishwanath Datta]], [[Amrita Lal Basu]], [[Akshay Kumar Datta]], [[Sudhindranath Dutta]],<ref name=Sudhindranath>[http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/sudhindranathdutta.html Sudhindranath: the Person I Knew]</ref> [[Jatindranath Sengupta]], [[Swami Abhedananda]], [[Bankim Ghosh]], [[Malay Roy Choudhury]] and [[Mithun Chakraborty]].<ref name="Bose147"/><ref name=Seedhi_Baat>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRefGYe-go4 Seedhi Baat -- Mithun Chakraborty]</ref><ref name="Dust">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140422/jsp/calcutta/story_18263033.jsp#.VfCzf5fhXIU]</ref>		\|ISBN = 978-0199865901}}</ref> [[Kristo Das Pal\|Krishnadas Pal]], [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]], [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]], Sir [[Gooroodas Banerjee]], [[Sambhunath Pandit]], [[Vishwanath Datta]], [[Amrita Lal Basu]], [[Akshay Kumar Datta]], [[Sudhindranath Dutta]],<ref name=Sudhindranath>[http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/sudhindranathdutta.html Sudhindranath: the Person I Knew]</ref> [[Jatindranath Sengupta]], [[Swami Abhedananda]], [[Bankim Ghosh]], [[Malay Roy Choudhury]] and [[Mithun Chakraborty]].<ref name="Bose147"/><ref name=Seedhi_Baat>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRefGYe-go4 Seedhi Baat -- Mithun Chakraborty]</ref><ref name="Dust">{{cite web \|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140422/jsp/calcutta/story_18263033.jsp#.VfCzf5fhXIU \|title=School wipes dust off treasure trove \|website=www.telegraphindia.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426094905/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140422/jsp/calcutta/story_18263033.jsp \|archive-date=2014-04-26}} </ref>

	==References==		==References==

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[[File:Oriental Seminary.jpg|thumb|Oriental Seminary, Kolkata]]
The '''Oriental Seminary''' started in 1829 by the educator Gour Mohan Addy, was the earliest privately run, first-rate school for children of Hindu parents in [[Kolkata]] (then known as Calcutta). It was open only to boys of Hindu parents.<ref>[[David Kopf|Kopf, David]], ''The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind'', p. 49, Princeton University Press.</ref> It was possibly India’s first fully private school, as even [[Hindu School, Kolkata|Hindu School]], then known as Hindu College, and also [[Hare school]] had to abide by certain government guidelines.<ref name = "Telegraph">{{cite news | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp | title = Pages from past lessons | access-date = 2007-05-04 | last = Roy | first = Subhajoy | publisher = The Telegraph, 13 January 2006 | location=Calcutta, India | date=13 January 2006}}</ref> In earlier days, students wanting to study [[English language|English]] had to go to the missionary schools, where they were subject to substantial religious influence. The establishment of a school for learning English, free from religious influences was a major contribution of Addy.<ref name = "Bose147">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, {{in lang|bn}}, p. 147, {{ISBN|81-85626-65-0}}</ref>
Traditional Indian education centres which taught [[Sanskrit]] and/or [[Persian language|Persian]] had started fading out.

==The school==
The school was first located at Benshohata. Thereafter, it shifted its location thrice before moving into the present building on Rabindra Sarani (earlier known as Chitpur Road) in [[Jorasanko]], often wrongly referred to as [[Chitpur]]. It was inaugurated by the governor of Bengal, [[Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael|Lord Carmichael]], in 1914. Its monthly fee of Rs 3 compared to Hindu School's Rs. 5 helped it to draw more students.<ref name = "Telegraph"/>

In 1836, a morning session for the infants was started. Bengali was introduced as a medium of instruction in 1839. By popular demand, three branches of the institution were set up in Chitpur, Bhowanipur and Belghoria. The school opened a girls' section in 1934. The higher secondary section of the school became co-educational in 1991. The building, constructed by [[Martin Burn]], was declared a heritage structure in 1999.<ref name = "Telegraph"/>

The first president of Indian National Congress, barrister W.C.Bonnerjee was an ex-student and the first president of the governing body of the school till his death in 1906. He was succeeded by [[Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee]] who was associated with the school as the president of its governing body from 1907 to 1922. Annie Besant was the president of the annual function of the school in 1926.<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050220/asp/bengal/story_4401854.asp
| title = Buddha woe over English
| access-date = 2007-05-04
| publisher = The Telegraph, 20 February 2005
| location=Calcutta, India
| date=20 February 2005
}}</ref>

==The founder and teachers==
Gour Mohan Addy (20 January 1805 – 3 March 1846) started the school without any support from the government. For the junior classes, he appointed Eurasians, in the intermediate classes he had Bengali teachers and for the upper classes he appointed highly qualified Englishmen or Bengalis. He died in a boat accident in the [[Hooghly river]], when returning from [[Serampore]], after searching for a teacher for his school.<ref name = "Bose147"/>

Shakespearean scholar Captain D.L. Richardson taught English in the school.<ref name = "Telegraph"/>

Currently the principal of the primary section is Rina Basak Halder

==Notable alumni==
Oriental Seminary was the earliest school [[Rabindranath Tagore]] attended.<ref name=Life>[http://www.inewsone.com/2011/05/08/life-of-rabindranath-tagore-at-a-glance/49023 Life of Rabindranath Tagore at a glance]</ref> The first experience of school aroused in the youngster the yearning to be a teacher. Wielding a stick, he used to teach from the railings in the big veranda of the palatial [[Jorasanko Thakur Bari]].<ref>Banerjee, Hiranmay, ''Thakurbarir Katha'', {{in lang|bn}}, p. 124, Sishu Sahitya Sansad]</ref><ref name="Tagore">{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1150507/jsp/calcutta/story_18658.jsp#.VfCzp5fhXIU | title=Treasure trove at Tagore's school | first=Chandreyee | last=Ghose | date=7 May 2015 | newspaper=Telegraph | location=India | access-date=17 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Past">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060113/asp/calcutta/story_5716626.asp]</ref>

Among the list of other notable alumni are [[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]],<ref>{{cite book
|last = Sardella |first = Ferdinando
|author-link = Ferdinando Sardella
|title = Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life, and Thought of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
|edition = reprint
|year = 2013a
|publisher = Oxford University Press
|place = New York, NY
|page = 64
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rYSXPg9GUpwC
|ISBN = 978-0199865901}}</ref> [[Kristo Das Pal|Krishnadas Pal]], [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]], [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]], Sir [[Gooroodas Banerjee]], [[Sambhunath Pandit]], [[Vishwanath Datta]], [[Amrita Lal Basu]], [[Akshay Kumar Datta]], [[Sudhindranath Dutta]],<ref name=Sudhindranath>[http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/sudhindranathdutta.html Sudhindranath: the Person I Knew]</ref> [[Jatindranath Sengupta]], [[Swami Abhedananda]], [[Bankim Ghosh]], [[Malay Roy Choudhury]] and [[Mithun Chakraborty]].<ref name="Bose147"/><ref name=Seedhi_Baat>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRefGYe-go4 Seedhi Baat -- Mithun Chakraborty]</ref><ref name="Dust">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140422/jsp/calcutta/story_18263033.jsp#.VfCzf5fhXIU]</ref>

==References==
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