City College, Kolkata

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City College
City College, Kolkata
Type	Undergraduate co-educational college
Established	1881; 143 years ago (1881)
Affiliation	University of Calcutta
President	Dr. Mukul Kanti Manna
Principal	Dr. Sital Prasad Chattopadhyay
Address	102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, College Street , Kolkata , West Bengal , 700009 , India 22°34′48″N 88°22′10″E / 22.5801231°N 88.3694173°E / 22.5801231; 88.3694173
Campus	Urban
Website	www.citycollegekolkata.org

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City College (or City College, Amherst Street, Kolkata) is a constituent undergraduate college of the University of Calcutta. Established in 1881, it is one of the heritage institutions of Kolkata, and played a prominent social 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

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

References

External links

Official website

v t e University of Calcutta
People	Vice-chancellors (List) Notable people
Associated research and training institutes	Bose Institute Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology CSSSC Indian Centre for Space Physics Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences SINP S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Affiliated colleges	List of colleges affiliated to the University of Calcutta List of centres affiliated to the University of Calcutta
Student life	Calcutta Review
Sports	University Athletic Club University Rowing Club
Campuses	Asutosh Siksha Prangan (College Street Campus) Rasbehari Siksha Prangan (Rajabazar Science College) Taraknath Palit Siksha Prangan (Ballygunge Science College) Shahid Kshudiram Sikhsha Prangan (Alipore Campus) Technology Campus (Salt Lake)
Related	Art museum History Honoris Causa Tagore Lectures
Category

v t e Bengal Renaissance
People	Sri Aurobindo Atul Prasad Sen Rajnarayan Basu Debendra Mohan Bose Jagadish Chandra Bose Subhash Chandra Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Madhusudan Gupta Bethune Upendranath Brahmachari Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Akshay Kumar Datta Henry Derozio Alexander Duff Michael Madhusudan Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt Anil Kumar Gain Kadambini Ganguly Monomohun Ghose Ramgopal Ghosh Aghore Nath Gupta David Hare Kazi Nazrul Islam Eugène Lafont Mahanambrata Brahmachari Ashutosh Mukherjee Kalikrishna Mitra 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 Fanindra Nath Gooptu Sitanath Tattwabhushan Brahmabandhav Upadhyay Ram Chandra Vidyabagish Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Swami Vivekananda Paramahansa Yogananda Begum Rokeya
Culture	Bengali literature Bengali poetry Bengali music Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Bhadralok Brahmoism Brahmo Samaj Gaudiya Math Mahanam Sampraday Nazrul geeti Rabindra Nritya Natya Rabindra Sangeet Sambad Prabhakar Satyagraha Self-Realization Fellowship Yogoda Satsanga Swadeshi Tattwabodhini Patrika Young Bengal
Education	Chittagong College Indian Statistical Institute Hindu School Jadavpur University Presidency University University of Calcutta Bethune College University of Dhaka Visva-Bharati University Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

Notable alumni

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