Rammohan College

Rammohan College
Type	Public
Established	1881
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	University of Calcutta

Rammohan College is an undergraduate and postgraduate college in Kolkata, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. It owns its origin to City College, Kolkata which is one of the oldest first grade colleges in West Bengal. The college is located at 102/1, Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani, Kolkata-700 009.

History

It was founded as City College in 1881 by a band of Brahmo leaders like Ananda Mohan Bose, Pandit Sivanath Sastri and Umesh Chandra Dutta. Rastraguru Surendranath Banerjee later joined the college as a teacher. It was re-established as a separate entity in 1961 as Rammohan College.

Aim

The aim of the college according to founders is to promote the cause of education in its highest and widest sense to make education a comprehensive training of the mind, heart and the body and founded on theistic basis conductive to the good of man and glory of God.

Campuses

The college is open to all students irrespective of race, creed or caste. It has a record of brilliant results. It is one of the City Group colleges administered by Brahmo Samaj Education Society, a registered society, constituted by the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Kolkata.

Rammohan College has recently acquired the heritage building at 85A, 85B and 85D Raja Rammohan Sarani which was once the family residence of Raja Rammohan Roy and his descendants. A memorial museum, a study centre about Raja Ram Mohan Roy, and vocational courses specially for women are housed here under autonomous body of management at the ancestral house. The museum, on Raja Ram Mohan Roy and his times, is elaborate and well documented (in English and Bengali).

A new science building for Rammohan College is also under construction next to the heritage building. The ground floor and the first and second floor of this building are complete and some classes are being held here since 2003 academic year.

Departments

English - Bengali - Hindi - Sanskrit - History - Philosophy - Political Science - Commerce - Physics - Chemistry - Mathematics - Economics - Geography - Education - Botany - Zoology - Physiology

External links

Official Website

University of Calcutta

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Colleges affiliated to University of Calcutta	List of colleges currently affiliated with the University of Calcutta

Bengal Renaissance

People	Sri Aurobindo Rajnarayan Basu Jagadish Chandra Bose Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Bethune Upendranath Brahmachari Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Akshay Kumar Datta Henry Derozio Alexander Duff Michael Madhusudan Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt Dwarkanath Ganguly Kadambini Ganguly Monomohun Ghose Ramgopal Ghosh Aghore Nath Gupta David Hare Kazi Nazrul Islam Eugène Lafont Ashutosh Mukherjee Harish Chandra Mukherjee Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gour Govinda Ray Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Raja Ram Mohan Roy Meghnad Saha Akshay Chandra Sarkar Mahendralal Sarkar Brajendra Nath Seal Girish Chandra Sen Keshub Chandra Sen Haraprasad Shastri Debendranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Satyendranath Tagore Jnanadanandini Devi Sitanath Tattwabhushan Brahmabandhav Upadhyay Ram Chandra Vidyabagish Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Swami Vivekananda Paramahansa Yogananda Begum Rokeya

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Institutions	Anandamohan College Asiatic Society Banga Mahila Vidyalaya Bangabasi College Bethune College Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Calcutta Madrasah College Calcutta Medical College Fort William College General Assembly's Institution Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya Hindu Theatre Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Midnapore College National Council of Education, Bengal Oriental Seminary Presidency College Ripon College Sanskrit College Scottish Church College Serampore College St. Xavier's College, Kolkata Vidyasagar College Visva-Bharati University University of Calcutta University of Dhaka

Other renaissance and revolutionary movements	Bhakti movement Gaudiya Vaishnavism Brahmoism Sannyasi Rebellion Indian independence movement Kalighat painting Jugantar movement Bengal School of Art Hindu–German Conspiracy Kallol Gananatya Andolan Bratachari movement Bengali Little Magazine Movement Parallel Cinema Indian Communism Naxalism Hungryalism Prakalpana Movement

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