City College, Kolkata
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Type | Undergraduate co-educational college |
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Established | 1881 |
Affiliation | University of Calcutta |
President | Dr. Mukul Kanti Manna |
Principal | Dr. Sital Prasad Chattopadhyay |
Address | 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, College Street , , , 700009 , 22°34′48″N 88°22′10″E / 22.5801231°N 88.3694173°ECoordinates: 22°34′48″N 88°22′10″E / 22.5801231°N 88.3694173°E |
Campus | Urban |
Website | www |
File:City College, Kolkata logo.jpg | |
City College (or City College, Amherst Street, Kolkata)[citation needed] is a constituent undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Established in 1881, it is one of the heritage institutions of Kolkata, and played a prominent role in the wake of the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth century. The college is located at 102/1, Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani (Amherst Street), Kolkata-700009. It shares premises with Rammohan College (morning college) and Anandamohan College (evening college).
Notable alumni[edit]
- Swami Shuddhananda, former president of the Ramakrishna Mission
- Soumitra Chatterjee, actor
- Laxminath Bezbarua, Assamese writer & Poet
- Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya Lexicographer, Author, Dramatist & Tea Planter
- Barun Sengupta, the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
- Shakti Chattopadhyay, poet
- Haradhan Bandopadhyay, actor
- Mahesh Chandra Ghosh, philosopher, Brahmo
- Mohit Chattopadhyay, playwright, screenwriter
- Muhammad Shahidullah, linguist
- Rajanikanta Sen, poet, composer
- Samir Roychoudhury, poet, writer
- Satyendra Chandra Mitra, freedom fighter, politician
- Sunil Kanti Roy, Managing Director of Peerless Group and Padma Shri awardee
- Birendra Nath Mallick, Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Bankim Ghosh, Bengali actor and theatre personality
- Jibanananda Das, noted bengali poet and writer
- Bhaskar Saha,Immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Pran Ranjan Sengupta, Mathematician and scientist
See also[edit]
- List of colleges affiliated to the University of Calcutta
- Education in India
- Education in West Bengal
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Categories:
- Pages using infobox university with the image name parameter
- Instances of Infobox university using image size
- Universities and colleges in Kolkata
- Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance
- University of Calcutta affiliates
- Universities and colleges affiliated with the Brahmo Samaj
- Educational institutions established in 1881
- 1881 establishments in British India