brief history || galaxy of headmasters || merit list || scholars

In 1835 Education Minutes, T.B. (later Lord) Macaulay as Law Member
of the Supreme Council summarily rejected Indian languages as being obsolete
for communication media to deserve consideration for the patronage of the
colonial govt. Remarkably, no protest came against this policy of adopting
English as the medium of instruction from the Indian literati.
English education, therefore, became a valid passport for jobs
to the middle and upper middle class people of the mid-19th century Bengal.
Naturally, the demand for English High Schools became increasingly
popular in and around Calcutta especially after the 40's of the last century.

Against this backdrop, a man like Babu Joy Krishna who had English education
as well as the opportunities to interact closely with the English people
for quite a long time, finally deciding to settle down in his birth place, that is,
at Uttarpara, found the conditions there not at all up to the mark
of his satisfaction. This was more so because neither physically
nor mentally was he ever confined to the four corners of his own locality.
He, therefore, developed the idea of setting up one English High School in his locality.
This noble idea of his got a strong support from his brother
Babu Rajkrishna as well as the people of this locality.

At the end of 1845, both Joykrishna and Raj Krishna wrote an application
to the then Magistrate of Howrah Mr. G.F. Cockburn
for the opening of a good school in Uttarpara.
To justify their demand,
they cited the fact that the nearest Govt. school was in Howrah
which was at least six miles away from Uttarpara and, therefore,
not within the easy reach of the people of this locality.

In their application they also promised to pay Rs. 100/- per month from
their landed property to the school. Morever, they also assured the Govt.
that if the Govt. would accept the proposal for the school,
then the people of this locality would give financial support
(Rs. 5000/-) to the school.
Strongly recommending the proposal of the
Mukherjees Mr. Cockburn transmitted the application to the then Secretary of
the Judicial Department Mr. F.J. Halliday who finally approved of the scheme.

As a result of this, the school at Uttarpara (Ooterparah School) was opened
in March, 1846 in a few scattered hutments near Bally Khal originally meant
to house the workers of Bally Tension Bridge. To start with,
the school had Mr. Robert Hand as the Headmaster with only one
assistant master named Mr. C. Grant and an enrolled student strength of 167.

 


GALAXY OF HEADMASTERS

YEAR
NAME OF THE HEADMASTERS
1846 - 1852 Mr. Robert Hands
1852 - 1856 Sri Ramtanu Lahiri
1857 - 1877 Sri Banamali Mitra
1877 - 1897 Sri Satya Charan Ganguly
1897 - 1910 Sri Jadu Nath Pal
1910 - 1915 Sri Harakanta Basu
1916 - 1918 Sri Dwigendra Nath Neogi
1918 - 1819 Sri Haripada Mukherjee
1919 - 1925 Sri Bisweswar Banerjee
1926 - 1927 Sri Kaliprasanna Bose
1927 - 1928 Sri Birendra Nath Sen
1929 - 1930 Sri Upendra Nath Guha
1931 -1935 Sri Mohani Mohan Das
1935 - 1937 Sri Tulsidas Banerjee
1937 - 1938 Sri Kshirode Chandra Sen
1938 - 1939 Sri Dwijendra Chakraborty
1939 - 1949 Sri Kali Charan Addhy
1950 - 1952 Sri Monoj Mohan Mukherjee
1952 - 1953 Sri Tamas Ranjan Roy
1954 - 1954 Sri Kaliprasad Roy
1954 - 1957 Sri Jatindra Mohan Banerjee
1958 - 1965 Sri Arun P. Chakrabarty
1965 - 1969 Sri Joy Gopal Mukherjee
1970 - 1975 Sri Nikhil Charan Bose
1975 - 1977 Sri Jatindra Mohan Bose
1977 - 1979 Sri Sakti Prasad Banerjee
1979 - 1983 Sri Nemai Chand Chakraborty
1980 - 1985 Sri Jatindra Nath Bose
1987 - 1990 Sri Amulya Kumar Mahanta
1991 - 93 Sri Debendra Nath Halder
1994 - Sri Sankar Kumar Neogi
20.12.1994 – 31.12.1997 Sri Sankar Kumar Neogi
03.04.1998 – 31.07.1999 Sri Laxmi Narayan Hazra
01.08.1999 – 18.04.2001 Sri Smarajit Roy
18.07.2002 - 31.07.2002 Sri Amiya Kanti Mazumder
19.02.2003 - 28.02.2003 Sri Susil Kumar Ray
28.02.2003 - 31.01.2006 Sri Pannalal Purkait
02.03.2006 - 31.10.2009 Sri Milon Kumar Basu
17.01.2011 - 25.12.2013 Dr. Pradip Kumar Basu
26.12.2013 –28.02.2015 Sri Bishnu Pada Roy
01.03.2015 – till date Sri Amal Kumar Sil (Asst. HM-in-Charge)

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MERIT LIST

Madhyamik

No
Name Rank Year
1
Anirban Kundu 3rd 1983
2
Partha Pratim Chakraborty 10th 1983
3
Atri Chakraborty 17th 1983
4
Jayjeet Ghosh 17th 1984
5
Shankha Bhattacharya 19th 1984
6
Raktim Ghosh 16th 1999
7
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee 18th 1999
8
Sambuddha Kumar 6th 2004

Higher Secondary
(Plus Two Courses)

No
Name Rank Year
1
Bhubaneswar Halder 7th 1978
2
Samir Ranjan Das 7th 1982
3
Ranjan Basu 20th 1984
4
Anirban Kundu 1st 1985
5
Atri Chakraborty 10th 1985
6
Dipan Roy 16th 1985
7
Dipanjan Chattopadhayay 19th 1991
8
Utpal Kumar Mondal 5th 1991
9
Sanjib Chowdhury 19th 1994
10
Kingshuk Karuri 10th 1995
11
Koushik Sen 10th 1999
12
Sambuddha Kumar 7th 2006
13
Nirmalaya Brahma 5th 2016
14
Soumyadeep Sinha 15th 2016

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SCHOLARS

 Year
 Name of Scholar Position in Board/University Scholarship obtained
1847-48
Kalipada Chatterjee Jr Scholarship
1847-48
Umesh Ch. Ghosh Jr Scholarship
1847-48
Nobakrishna Mukherjee Jr. Scholarship
1847-48
Gopinath Mukherjee Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Dinanath Mitra Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Peary Mohan Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Pearylal Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Prasanna Kr. Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Umesh Ch. Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1848-49
Bhuban Mohan Mitra Jr. Scholarship
1849-50
Sreenath Acharya Jr. Scholarship
1849-50
Gobinda Ch. Mitra Jr. Scholarship
1849-50
Kalidas Bose Jr. Scholarship
1849-50
Umesh Chandra Mitra Jr. Scholarship
1853-54
Shyama Charan Ganguly Jr. Scholarship
1853-54
Nilmoni Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1855-56
Kshetra Mohan Bose Rs. 10/-
1855-56
Nabin Kishore Mukherjee Rs. 8/-
1855-56
Pearymohan Mukherjee Rs. 8/-
1855-56
Jadunath Roy Rs. 8/-
1856-57
Rasiklal Majumdar Jr. Scholarship
1856-57
Shibcharan Chatterjee Jr. Scholarship
1856-57
Ambika Charan Banerjee Jr. Scholarship
1857-58
Rajmohan Chatterjee Rs. 10/-
1857-58
Bireswar Banerjee Rs. 8/-
1857-58
Naba Kumar Chakraborty Rs. 8/-
1858-59
Nabin Krishna Mukherjee Rs. 25/-
1858-59
Trailokyanath Mitra Rs. 8/-
1858-59
Girish Ch. Chowdhury Rs. 8/-
1858-59
Benode Ch. Mukherjee Rs. 8/-
1860
Herambalal Ghosh Rs. 10/-
1860
Gopal Ch. Das Rs. 8/-
1860
Surath Ch. Sanyal Rs. 8/-
1860
Kshetranath Mitra Rs. 8/-
1863
Promada Charan Banerjee 1st. Gr. Sch.
1868
Jadunath Pal Jr. Scholarship
1907
Satyendranath Modak 1st
1908
Govinda Das 1st
1910
Mohit Ghosh 1st
1912
Prandhan Mukherjee 7th
1912
Ananthnath Das 15/- Scholarship
1913
Nalinikanta Bose 6th
1914
Shyamaprosad Mukherjee 4th
1915
Jibandhan Chakraborty 4th
1916
Ramdas Mukherjee 10th
1923
Manindranath Banerjee 5th 100% in Math
1924
Jagneswar Mukherjee 1st in Burdwan Divn. Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1924
Dhirendranath Dutta 2nd in Divn. Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1924
Fanindranath Banerjee Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1928
Sudhangsu Sekhar Bhattacharya 1st in Divn.
1928
Dhirendranath Dutta Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1928
Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1929
Tarapada Mukherjee Rs. 15/- Scholarship
1931
Tarakdas Mitra Scholarship
1931
Pradyot Haldar Scholarship
1934
Jnanendramohan Banerjee Rs 15/- Scholarship
1934
Anil Banerjee Scholarship
1941
Debabrata Sarkar Rs. 10/- Scholarship
1944
Satyabrata Sarkar 2nd Gr. Scholarship
1945
Biswanath Nandi 2nd Gr. Scholarship
1947
Punyabrata Sarkar Scholarship
1947
Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya Scholarship
1948
Pijushkanti Singha Roy Scholarship
1949
Anukul Ch. Das Scholarship
1954
Tapan Kr Dutta Scholarship
1954
Surajit Roy Scholarship
1956
Tapan Kumar Lahiri Scholarship
1956
Prosad Dutta 2nd Tc
1956
Aloke Das 3rd
1956
Sukdeb Mukherjee 3rd
1957
Deb Kumar Banerjee Scholarship
1961
Sukumar Ghose 3rd
1961
Amit Mukherjee National Scholarship
1962
Dipankar Goswami Scholarship
1962
Sambhunath Mukherjee Scholarship
1965
Prodyot Chatterjee 11th N.S.T.S. Scholarship
1965
Arup Sen National Scholarship

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