Hooghly Collegiate School

Hooghly Collegiate School, established in 1812, is one of the oldest and prestigious schools not only in the Hooghly district , West Bengal, India

Hooghly Collegiate School
Location
Chinsurah-712101
State-West Bengal, India
Information
TypeGovernment School (directly, Government of West Bengal)
Established1812 (1812)
CampusUrban
AffiliationWBBSE & WBCHSE
Websitehooghlycollegiateschool.org

History
Hooghly Collegiate School in early 2000s
Front Gate of Hooghly Collegiate School

HCS's early provenance is sketchily documented in Karuņāsāgar Vidyāsāgar, quoting from 'Education Committee' reports, periodicals and other print media of that period.

The name of the school changed once or twice, till it came to be known as 'Hooghly College' and thence 'Hooghly Collegiate School' when the college wing was created. The location underwent changes, too. The so-called 'new building' (to the 'Ṣāṇḍeśvar Talā' end of the prayer ground, to house the laboratories and the classes IX to XI of the new Higher Secondary scheme) and the box-like, stand-alone crafts-cum-smithy building were completed in 1956-57. The oldest building of the school and part of the adjoining Mohsin College were Hazi Mohammad Mohsin's personal property.

It was rumoured to have a subterranean passage, purpose unknown, from below the main staircase of the old building to a ghat on river Bhāgīrathī on the lower terrace of the prayer ground (which had two walled terraces); part of the tunnel had collapsed and the school authority saw it fit to seal off the school-side entrance in the mid-1950s.

Notable alumni
  • Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
  • Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (1861-1907) (admitted into Hooghly Collegiate School in 1874)

In author Suman Sen's 2017 horror-comedy book Koto Bhoot! Ki Adbhut!, the main protagonist Batuk babu was an alumnus of this school.

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