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The following is a list of notable Old Martinians, former pupils and masters of the three schools established by Claude Martin.


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Notable Martinians - Calcutta

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Corporate sector

  • C K Birla, industrialist.
  • Sir Catchick Paul Chater, philanthropist, Father of modern Hong Kong, Second Founder of La Martiniere Calcutta.
  • Dr Smarajit (Toy) Dey, President, NIIT Ltd
  • Dr Ron Ghosh, former Chairman CSFB worldwide.[citation needed]
  • Ronnie Roy, head of Merrill Lynch, Asia-Pacific.[citation needed]
  • Lalit Tandon, Vice-president HILTON HOTELS Hong Kong
  • Gurpreet S. Pal, architecture strategist, Microsoft, US.[citation needed]
  • Atul Singh, president and chief executive of Coca-Cola India[1]
  • Deveshwar Dayal Mathur, CEO HSBC Operations & Processing Enterprises (HSBC's Processing Subsidiary in India)
  • Manasije Mishra, MD and CEO at IL&FS Investsmart Ltd [An HSBC Group Company, India] [3],
  • Kanchun Kaushal,Associate Director,Pricewaterhouse Coopers Pvt Ltd.

Celebrity

Pryanka Chopra , film actor, former Miss India & Miss World.

Education

Entertainment

Fine arts

Government

  • Dr Saiyid Nurul Hasan, historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India.

Journalism

Judiciary

Politics

  • Brigadier K. P. Singh Deo, politician and former Minister.[citation needed]
  • Mausam Noor, MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009

Sports

Others

  • Barry O'Brien, quizmaster.[7]
  • Jairaj Singh Deo, Chartered Ship-broker & maritime investor.[8]

Notable Martinians - Lucknow

Introduction

The Masters and Boys of the School were collectively awarded battle colours by Queen Victoria in 1860 for the defence of the Martiniere post against a huge force at the old Bailey Gate during the 1857 siege of Lucknow. Sir Colin Campbell’s report to the East India court of Governors reads “During this six month period many individual acts of valor were performed and young lives sacrificed in the fierce and tenacious defence of the Bailey Gate. The Constantia boys fought off the repeated attacks of a determined and persistent enemy and took their place in the line of battle alongside the regular regiments of the East India army…... The East India Army is honoured that Her Imperial Majesty has most graciously commanded the award of The Royal standard for courage, given to our bravest regiments, to the boys and masters of La Martiniere School...”

The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School is distinguished by one recent Nobel Prize winner laureate Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[9].

IPCC led by Dr. Pachauri shares the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 with Al Gore.

The School scores heavily with its contribution to defence, police and administrative services.

Sadly with the partition of the country many of the school’s former Muslim pupils, who came from the former predominately Muslim area of Lucknow, had to leave for Pakistan in the mass exodus of the Muslim population. Amongst the millions who left many have been forgotten, but here in the La Martiniere list a tiny number of Muslim boys, who were alumni of the school will be remembered for their contribution to the administration of undivided India and to their valour in great wars that the British Indian Army fought.

The history of the school is a long one, A large number of Anglo Indians boys are missing in this list of fame. Many Anglo Indians identities have been submerged within the identities of the British, Australian and Canadian populations. This small community has had outstanding achievements at every level of society for hundreds of years, but that record of achievement has been hidden, passed over or co-opted as British, by British historians hiding the fact that they were actually (anglo) Indians who were born and educated in India in schools like La Martiniere.[10].

Corporate sector

Defence

In the First and Second World Wars the names of thirty-six and eight Martians respectively are enshrined on the Rolls of Honour at the College.[6]

  • Colonel Jangbir Singh. Studied at La Martiniere College Lucknow from 1975 to 1987 and was from Hudson House. He was College Senior Under Officer in NCC 1987. He joined National Defence Academy at Pune and was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery as a tradition, being a Third Generation Officer. He is still in service.

Economics

Education

Entertainment

Fashion celebrity

Government

Journalism

  • Shanney Naqvi, journalist, poet, philosopher, singer and composer
  • Sunita Aron, journalist
  • Humra Quraishi,journalist
  • Arvind Kala, journalist. [citation needed]
  • Vinod Mehta, magazine editor[26]
  • Tanya Chaitanya, Editor, Femina magazine
  • Saeed Naqvi, a leading journalist in Delhi brother of Shanney Naqvi.[27]
  • Jawed Naqvi,columnist and journalist
  • Kunal Pradhan, journalist, cricker writer and sports editor.[28]
  • Mehru Jaffer,journalist
  • Nasir Abid, Columnist, journalist and literary critic, Leading International campaigner for the abolition of land mines. Founder the George Orwell preservation society, India. Portrayed as the character, Rashid in VS Niapaul’s books on India. Host of the Kotra House, literary and artistic saloon in the 1970s, which met for drinking parties in Jopling Road. The group which consisted of a coterie of leading libertine Indian writers, philosophers, and artists of both sexes has been compared to the Bloomsbury group in London of the 1920s.
  • Akash Banerjee,journalist and news reader
  • Tavishi Srivastava, journalist

Musicians

Judiciary

Literature

Medicine

Politics

  • Raja Suliman Khan, MLA, also known as Mohd Amir Mohammad Khan,gifted drawing room conversationalist and rencontre, scion of the House of Mahmudabad
  • Nawab Sir Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan, KCIE, the first Nawab of Murshidabad
  • The Honourable Raja Sir Harnam Singh, KCIE Raja of Kapurthala
  • Satish Agarwal MLA Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Vice President Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ramjanambhumi action Ayodhya
  • Islam Khan Haider MLA and Freedom fighter Secretary of all India Congress jailed 1933 for Nine Years by British
  • HH Nawab Syed Muhammad Murtaza Khan of Rampur, ADC to the Commander in Chief in India.
  • Raja Amir Ahmed Khan of Mahmudabad, known as 'Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad' trusted associate of Quaid-e-Azam founder of Pakistan.
  • Raja Syed Sajid Ali Husain of Kotwara, MLA from Lakhimpur in fifties.[citation needed]
  • Arun Nehru, political analyst, ex-minister and columnist.[36]
  • Nawab Nisar Ali Khan Qizilbash of Nawabgunge (immigrated to Pakistan)
  • Raja Muhammed Ali Khan of Hasnapur (immigrated to Pakistan)
  • Raja Bahadur Rameshwar Singh, Raja of Tiloi
  • Nawab Salman Khurshid Khan of Farukhabad
  • Maj. HH Nawab Mirza Aizzuddin Khan Bahadur of Lohru State
  • Jam Saheb Mir Ghulam Qader Khan of Las Belas Princely State also served as chief minister of Baluchistan.
  • Mohammad Abbas Haider President-All India Nav Yuvak Congress

Science and technology

Sports

Others

  • George Abraham, founder and CEO of Score Foundation, which runs Project Eyeway. He is also the founding chairman of the World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) and the Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI).
  • Edward Hilton, author of an eye-witness guide to the siege of Lucknow.
  • Charles Palmer, civil engineer and survivor of the siege of Lucknow.[38]
  • Joseph Smith (1894), civil engineer on leading canal projects. He was awarded a knighthood in 1932.[6]
  • Akhil Katyal (2003), PhD Candidate - Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at SOAS London.

Lucknow pupils who received the Indian Mutiny Medal

The following pupils at La Martiniere Boys' College were awarded the Indian Mutiny Medal in 1858 for their part in the Defence of Lucknow from 29 June - 22 November 1857.[39]

Medals

Rajiv Deengar (ex La Martiniere Lucknow) was awarded a Silver Medal by The Royal Society for the Promotion of Arts in London, England, in 1984.

The following staff at La Martiniere Boys' College were awarded the Indian Mutiny Medal in 1858 for their part in the Defence of Lucknow from 29 June - 22 November 1857.[39]

  • George Archer, schoolmaster
  • H. Crank, headmaster
  • Charles Dodd, schoolmaster
  • William Hilton, Instructor (Bengal Artillery)
  • J. de Ravara, steward
  • George Schilling, principal
  • Mr Wall, schoolmaster

Notable Martinians - Lyons

Lumiere Brothers

See also

References

  1. ^ Surajeet Das Gupta.'We failed to communicate, says Coke India'. Rediff News, 7th February 2006. accessed September 2007
  2. ^ Paranjoy Guha Thakurta onWWW.INDIA50.COM accessed September 2007
  3. ^ Carrots & Sticks Kolkata Newsline accessed August 10th 2007
  4. ^ a b La Martiniere Boys' College website accessed September 2007
  5. ^ Report by Ashok Chatterjee in the online edition of The Times of India, 18th June 2007 accessed September 2007
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i The Old Martians' Association
  7. ^ 'Riddle me this'. The Times of India, online edition, 10th September 2004 accessed September 2007
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ a b M.S Swaminathan , R.K Pachauri, Ela Bhatt, Father C. Prakash receive French Govt. awards accessed June 2007
  10. ^ Reginald Maher’s ‘These Are The Anglo-Indians’ in the Anglo-Indian Heritage series. The other’s are: Britain’s Betrayal in India: The Story of the Anglo-Indian Community by Frank Anthony Hostages to India: The Life story of The Anglo-Indian Race by Herbert Alick Stark Cimmerii? Or Eurasians and Their History. All Publised by the Simon Wallenberg press
  11. ^ Nusrat Durran biography accessed July 2007
  12. ^ La Martianere alumni announce meeting in 2002
  13. ^ Indian Air Force Gallantry & Service Awards Database accessed June 2007
  14. ^ Sabre Killers - Keelor Brothers By Ramesh Lalwani, New Delhi Mangalorean.com June 11, 2006 Accessed June 2007
  15. ^ 'New Colonel Commandant of EME'. Armed Forces Panorama. Sainik Samachar. accessed July 2007
  16. ^ Leonard Raza is the Officer mentioned in the Golden Galley: The story of the Second Punjab Regiment By Sir Geoffrey Betham to illustrate British racism. “It was decided to honor the Indians, and a young Indian, Major Raza, was selected to take the Surrender of the Japanese Military Police in Rangoon, as the officer had been decorated for gallantry, as well as being mentioned in dispatches three times. But the following day he was refused entry into the white only Rangoon Club), The golden galley : the story of the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1761-1947. London: Oxford University Press, 1956.
  17. ^ Denzil Simeons: Down Memory Lane, by Robert Clayton, OMA Newsletter No 43, 1994 accessed June 2007
  18. ^ Underwater Operation - details of Lt Singh's bravery accessed July 2007
  19. ^ Bryan Cooke biography accessed July 2007
  20. ^ Roshan Abbas visits the school Lucknow Newsline August 6th 2005 accessed June 2007
  21. ^ Priyanka Chopra at IndianUncle.com accessed June 2007
  22. ^ Maureen Wadia, heiress and La Martian accessed July 2007
  23. ^ 'Uncivil treatment'. The Tribune (online edition), 14 November, 2004. accessed July 2007
  24. ^ Malhotra, Jyoti. 'The world in his briefcase'. "The Indian Express" (online edition) 1 June 1997 accessed June 2007
  25. ^ New ambassador to Russia. The Tribune (online edition) 16 May 2001 accessed June 2007
  26. ^ Diary OutlookIndia.com 17th November 2003 accessed June 2007
  27. ^ East of Eton William Dalrymple TravelIntelligence.net accessed June 2007
  28. ^ [2] Indian Express website accessed December 2008
  29. ^ Prize Day report by the Principal in 2003 accessed June 2007
  30. ^ Rukun Advani. 'For the public good'. The Hindu (online edition), 26 November, 2000. accessed July 2007
  31. ^ Rad Sa, S. Bahadur, Krishna Prakash. The Poems of Suradosa, Abinhay Publications, p367 accessed June 2007
  32. ^ The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English Jenny Ed Stringer 1996 ISBN 0192122711 p316
  33. ^ Mehru Jaffer - Old Martian
  34. ^ Allan Sealy's entry from the website of the New Delhi Office of the Library of Congress
  35. ^ An Intimate Chat with Dr. Shelly Batra accessed June 2007
  36. ^ Nehru, Arun. 'Of Servitude and Freedom'. Vigil Public Opinion Forum. accessed June 2007
  37. ^ a b Western Australia's information package including history 1912-2006 accessed June 2007
  38. ^ Obituary: Mr. C. G. Palmer – Medal for Lucknow Defence. The Times, 19 August 1940
  39. ^ a b La Martiniere Staff and Students Awarded the Indian Mutiny Medal 1857-1859 accessed June 2007 Cite error: The named reference "medal" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

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