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Bangabasi College is a Kolkata-based liberal arts, commerce and sciences college. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the University of Calcutta. It was founded by Girish Chandra Bose, an educationist, social reformer and agriculturist, in 1887. It was the first nationalist college. It played a major role in the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 and the self-sacrifice of Shri Jatindranath Das, an undergraduate student of the college. The college celebrated its 125th anniversary from November 2011 to October 2012. It has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India (NAAC) with "B++" certificate.
History
Acharya Girish Chandra Bose founded an institution, named Bangabasi School, in a rented house in Bowbazar Street with six teachers and twelve students in the year 1885. Two years later, the college was established with private management, under the inspiration and guidance of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. It started with F.A. course and slowly obtained affiliation for the B.A., B.L. and M.A. courses to meet the requirements of the college.
In 1930. the college moved into its present premises at 19, Scott Lane (now Raj Kumar Chakraborty Sarani). Honours course in various subjects were introduced. During the World War II another branch of the college was established in Kushtia (now in Bangladesh) in 1942, as the people of Kolkata were troubled by the bombing by Japanese troops. After the World War II it was closed. After Independence in 1947, the college started to see receive huge admissions and thus it created extra-pressure on the existing infrastructure and system. To cope up with the demand, college was divided in morning and evening sections and Acharya Girish Chandra Bose started a new evening section only for commerce. Later in 1964, it emerged as Bangabasi College of Commerce (renamed as Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College in 2005).
Through phase reduction scheme of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the shifts were separated and two new colleges, i.e. Bangabasi Morning College and Bangabasi Evening College emerged in the same building and Bangabasi College of Commerce in a separate building on 11 April 1965. With this, four colleges came up: Bangabasi College, Bangabasi Morning College, Bangabasi Evening College and Bangabasi College of Commerce. In 1979 Bangabasi College opened its own Commerce Department, and also became co-ed.
Courses
Courses listed below are undergraduate, except zoology. Only zoology department has both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
= Language and Literature
=Bengali
English
Hindi
Sanskrit
= Social Science
=Economics
Education
Geography
History
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
= Commerce
=Commerce
= Pure Science
=Chemistry
Computer Science
Mathematics
Physics
Statistics
= Biological Science
=Anthropology
Botany
Zoology
Environmental Studies
Postgraduate studies
Postgraduate studies started in Zoology in 2005, under the semester system (CBCS), Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta.
Recently, it was acknowledged by the Department of Science and Technology, by sanctioning a grants-in-aid to the extent of Rs 20,00,000 for procuring modern equipment and adequate software support.
Timeline
Facilities
Facilities provided in the college:
= Student service cell
=Student support cell
Placement cell
Counselling cell
Women's cell
Anti-ragging cell
Grievance redressal cell
Equal opportunity cell
= Academic
=Laboratories
Internet and Wi-Fi
Educational tours
Scholarships
Other activities
Other activities include:
NCC
Sports and Games
Students fair
Cultural activities
Computer skill development
Self defense
Notable alumni
The alumni of Bangabasi College have achieved prominence in various fields. Following is the list of notable alumni of this college.
Chitta Basu, film director of Bengal during the sixties
Salil Chowdhury, music composer
Jatindra Nath Das, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and martyr.
Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India
Bishnu Dey, poet; winner of Jnanpith Award
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, recipient of Padma Bhushan, former editor, Amrita Bazar Patrika
Pankaj Gupta, , sports administrator
Kansari Halder, Indian politician
Baby Islam, Indian and Bangladeshi cinematographer and film director
Hare Krishna Konar, Indian independence activist, politician
A. T. Kovoor, professor, rationalist
Swami Lokeshwarananda, monk of the Ramakrishna Mission
Chittabrata Majumdar, general secretary of CITU
Sreela Majumdar, actress
Indumadhab Mallick, Indian polymath who invented the ICMIC cooker
Ashesh Prosad Mitra, Fellow of the Royal Society, former director general, CSIR
Anantahari Mitra, Indian freedom fighter and martyr
Bimal Mukherjee, globe-trotter on bicycle
Subrata Mukherjee, politician, Minister
Baishnab Charan Parida, politician, writer and social activist
Sharat Kumar Roy, Indian American Geologist, the first person of Indian origin to go in an expedition to North Pole
Chittaranjan Saha, Bangladeshi educationist, was awarded Ekushey Padak
Amal Kumar Sarkar, chief justice of India
Benudhar Sharma, recipient of Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award, President of Assam Sahitya Sabha
Swami Yatiswarananda, vice-president of Ramakrishna Order whose headquarter is in Belur Math
See also
Bangabasi Morning College
Bangabasi Evening College
Bangabasi College of Commerce
References
External links
Official website