Dhaka Collegiate School is a secondary school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[1] It is one of the oldest schools in Bangladesh. The students of collegiate school are called Collegiatian.
History
Dhaka Collegiate School
The school was established in Dhaka on 21 June 1835 as Dhaka English Seminary. It was the first government high school established by the British under the East India Company in the Bengal province for teaching English literature and science. This was later named as Dhaka Collegiate School. Mr. Redge, an English missionary, acted as the first head master of the school. In its first batch it had Nawab of Dhaka Khwaja Abdul Ghani as a student.[2]
The foundation of Dhaka Intermediate College later to be known as Dhaka College was laid down in 1841. The school separated from the college in 1908. Since then it has been the Zilla School of Dhaka, although it continues to be called Dhaka Collegiate School.[2]
This institution has delivered many famous alumni in its history.
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Ainun Nishat, water resource and climate change specialist, serving as a professor emeritus of BRAC University
Dinesh Gupta, Famous Indian Revolutionary, who took part in famous Writer
In contemporary literature
In Satyajit Ray's Popular Detective Series Feluda, Mentions Pradosh Chandra Mitter aka Feluda's Father late Jay Krishna Mitter was a teacher of mathematics and Sanskrit at Dhaka Collegiate School.
