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	'''The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School''' (or '''CAG School''') is a private [[high school]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It has two buildings, one for the boys ~~school~~ and one for the girls ~~school~~. It is on Pollock Street in the [[Burrabazar]] area, the ~~busy~~ commercial hub of the city.<ref>Calcutta, 1964:		'''The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School''' (or '''CAG School''') is a private [[high school]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It has two school buildings, one for the boys and one for the girls. It is on Pollock Street in the [[Burrabazar]] area, the commercial hub of the city.<ref>Calcutta, 1964:
	a social survey.</ref><ref name=a>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BaQcAAAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school~~&dq=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&hl=en&ei=qi7yTZiiFIXJrQfquvj5Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA~~ THE CALCUTTA ANGLO GUJARATI SCHOOL] Bharata shakti:collection of addresses on Indian culture, John G. Woodroffe. S.C. Chowdhury, 1918</ref><ref name=b>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1010906/the_east.htm GENX JUST WON’T MOUTH MOTHER TONGUE] The Telegraph, Calcutta, 5 September 2001.</ref><ref>Aspects of society and culture in Calcutta, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Anthropological Survey of India, 1982/</ref><ref>[http://yellowpages.goldenkolkata.com/west-bengal/yellow-pages-history.php?city=1144%23Kolkata&category=12&sub_category=408&location=Kolkata%20G.P.O.&listing_id=15362 Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School,29, Pollock Street, BBD Baug, Kolkata G.P.O.,Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700001]</ref>		a social survey.</ref><ref name=a>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BaQcAAAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school THE CALCUTTA ANGLO GUJARATI SCHOOL] Bharata shakti:collection of addresses on Indian culture, John G. Woodroffe. S.C. Chowdhury, 1918</ref><ref name=b>[https://archive.today/20130204120236/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1010906/the_east.htm GENX JUST WON’T MOUTH MOTHER TONGUE] The Telegraph, Calcutta, 5 September 2001.</ref><ref>Aspects of society and culture in Calcutta, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Anthropological Survey of India, 1982/</ref><ref>[http://yellowpages.goldenkolkata.com/west-bengal/yellow-pages-history.php?city=1144%23Kolkata&category=12&sub_category=408&location=Kolkata%20G.P.O.&listing_id=15362 Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School,29, Pollock Street, BBD Baug, Kolkata G.P.O., Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700001]</ref>

	CAG School was founded in 1893 by the [[Gujarati people\|Gujarati]]-speaking business community of Kolkata, with an aim to provide education to their children in their mother tongue, [[Gujarati language]].<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=x>{{cite book\|author1=Sir Stanley Reed\|author2=Times of India, Bombay\|title=The Times of India Directory & Yearbook, Including Who's who\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3IiAQAAIAAJ\|year=1955\|publisher=Times of India Press\|page=1055}}</ref> The school is patronized by the all [[Gujarati language\|Gujarati-speaking]] community, irrespective of their religion. [[Hindu]], [[Jain]], [[Kutchi people\|Kutchi]] and the [[Gujarati Muslims]] communities like [[Mustaali\|Bohras]], [[Memon people\|Memon]]s and [[Khoja]]s, contributed to its foundation and development.<ref>[http://www.memon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=520:a&catid=46:personalities&Itemid=79 Abdul Aziz Al-Memony. He took active interest in public welfare projects and extended considerable material support to Anglo-Gujrati School of Calcutta.]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rT0cAQAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school~~&dq=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&hl=en&ei=qi7yTZiiFIXJrQfquvj5Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA~~ Amritlal Ojha of Cutch was the Chairman of the Calcutta Anglo-Gujarati School] ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India'', Volumes 15-16, 1943.</ref>		CAG School was founded in 1893 by the [[Gujarati people\|Gujarati]]-speaking business community of Kolkata, with an aim to provide education to their children in their mother tongue, [[Gujarati language]]. In later years Seth Tribhovandas Hirachand Kothari, who remained its secretary for 50 years from 1917 till his death.<ref>Diary of Golden Days at Jharia – A Memoir and History of Gurjar Kashtriyas of Kutch in Coalfields of Jharia – written by Natwarlal Devram Jethwa of Calcutta (1998) :page 46 :Seth Tribhovandas Hirachand (1880-1967) Lifesketch</ref><ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=x>{{cite book\|author1=Sir Stanley Reed\|author2=Times of India, Bombay\|title=The Times of India Directory & Yearbook, Including Who's who\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3IiAQAAIAAJ\|year=1955\|publisher=Times of India Press\|page=1055}}</ref> The school is patronized by the all [[Gujarati language\|Gujarati-speaking]] community, irrespective of their religion. [[Hindu]], [[Jain]], [[Kutchi people\|Kutchi]] and the [[Gujarati Muslims]] communities like [[Mustaali\|Bohras]], [[Memon people\|Memon]]s and [[Khoja]]s, contributed to its foundation and development.<ref>[http://www.memon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=520:a&catid=46:personalities&Itemid=79 Abdul Aziz Al-Memony. He took an active interest in public welfare projects and extended considerable material support to Anglo-Gujrati School of Calcutta.]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rT0cAQAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school Amritlal Ojha of Cutch was the Chairman of the Calcutta Anglo-Gujarati School] ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India'', Volumes 15-16, 1943.</ref>

	Gujarati remains the first language in the school where, ~~till~~ 1985-86, all subjects were taught in Gujarati. Now English is the medium of instruction. The school is affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education\|WB Board]] and students ~~had~~ to appear for [[Madhyamik]] examinations for passing out.		Gujarati remains the first language in the school where, until 1985-86, all subjects were taught in Gujarati. Now English is the medium of instruction. The school is affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education\|WB Board]] and students have to appear for [[Madhyamik]] examinations for passing out.

	The same trust which runs the school has now started 'The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College, which is affiliated to [[West Bengal University of Technology]] and offers courses in BBA and BCA.<ref>[http://mycollege.in/The-Calcutta-Anglo-Gujarati-College/3569.php The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College]</ref>		The same trust which runs the school has now started 'The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College, which is affiliated to [[West Bengal University of Technology]] and offers courses in BBA and BCA.<ref>[http://mycollege.in/The-Calcutta-Anglo-Gujarati-College/3569.php The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College]</ref>

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'''The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School''' (or '''CAG School''') is a private [[high school]] in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It has two buildings, one for the boys school and one for the girls school. It is on Pollock Street in the [[Burrabazar]] area, the busy commercial hub of the city.<ref>Calcutta, 1964:
a social survey.</ref><ref name=a>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BaQcAAAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&dq=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&hl=en&ei=qi7yTZiiFIXJrQfquvj5Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA THE CALCUTTA ANGLO GUJARATI SCHOOL] Bharata shakti:collection of addresses on Indian culture, John G. Woodroffe. S.C. Chowdhury, 1918</ref><ref name=b>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1010906/the_east.htm GENX JUST WON’T MOUTH MOTHER TONGUE] The Telegraph, Calcutta, 5 September 2001.</ref><ref>Aspects of society and culture in Calcutta, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Anthropological Survey of India, 1982/</ref><ref>[http://yellowpages.goldenkolkata.com/west-bengal/yellow-pages-history.php?city=1144%23Kolkata&category=12&sub_category=408&location=Kolkata%20G.P.O.&listing_id=15362 Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School,29, Pollock Street, BBD Baug, Kolkata G.P.O.,Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700001]</ref>

CAG School was founded in 1893 by the [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]]-speaking business community of Kolkata, with an aim to provide education to their children in their mother tongue, [[Gujarati language]].<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=x>{{cite book|author1=Sir Stanley Reed|author2=Times of India, Bombay|title=The Times of India Directory & Yearbook, Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3IiAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Times of India Press|page=1055}}</ref> The school is patronized by the all [[Gujarati language|Gujarati-speaking]] community, irrespective of their religion. [[Hindu]], [[Jain]], [[Kutchi people|Kutchi]] and the [[Gujarati Muslims]] communities like [[Mustaali|Bohras]], [[Memon people|Memon]]s and [[Khoja]]s, contributed to its foundation and development.<ref>[http://www.memon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=520:a&catid=46:personalities&Itemid=79 Abdul Aziz Al-Memony. He took active interest in public welfare projects and extended considerable material support to Anglo-Gujrati School of Calcutta.]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rT0cAQAAMAAJ&q=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&dq=the+calcutta+anglo+gujarati+school&hl=en&ei=qi7yTZiiFIXJrQfquvj5Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA Amritlal Ojha of Cutch was the Chairman of the Calcutta Anglo-Gujarati School] ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India'', Volumes 15-16, 1943.</ref>

Gujarati remains the first language in the school where, till 1985-86, all subjects were taught in Gujarati. Now English is the medium of instruction. The school is affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education|WB Board]] and students had to appear for [[Madhyamik]] examinations for passing out.

The same trust which runs the school has now started 'The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College, which is affiliated to [[West Bengal University of Technology]] and offers courses in BBA and BCA.<ref>[http://mycollege.in/The-Calcutta-Anglo-Gujarati-College/3569.php The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College]</ref>

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