Raja Peary Mohan College

Raja Peary Mohan College
TypeGovernment
Established20 June 1887 (20 June 1887)
AffiliationsUniversity of Calcutta
PresidentKanchan Mullick
PrincipalDr. Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty
Location
1, Acharya Dhruba Pal Road, Kotrung
,
Uttarpara
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°39′21″N 88°20′57″E / 22.65583°N 88.34917°E / 22.65583; 88.34917
Campus
WebsiteRPMCollege.edu.in
Raja Peary Mohan College is located in West Bengal
Raja Peary Mohan College
Location within West Bengal
Raja Peary Mohan College is located in India
Raja Peary Mohan College
Location within India

Raja Peary Mohan College[1] is a general and honours degree purpose college in Hooghly District of West Bengal, India under the University of Calcutta. It offers undergraduate level courses in various arts, commerce and science subjects. The college is a popular institution for undergraduate study in the neighborhood of Uttarpara, the Hooghly district, Howrah and the North 24 Parganas.

History

The college was established in 1881 by late Raja Joy Krishna Mukherjee (who was the father of Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee), a leading social reformer and educationist of colonial Bengal, when it was under the British rule.[2][3] The college was transferred the government aided list to the unaided list in 1887.[4] Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee took over management of the college after the death of his father.[3] On 21 August 1938, Prime Minister of Bengal A. K. Fazlul Huq and Finance Minister Nalini Ranjan Sarkar visited the college.[3] On 4 October 1953 it was renamed after Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee.[3]

On 16 December 1967, police attack on protesting students and teachers, part of the Naxalite movement era in West Bengal, at the college led to the injury of 18 teachers including the vice-principal.[5][6][7]

Departments and courses

The college offers different undergraduate and postgraduate courses and aims at imparting education to the undergraduates of lower- and middle-class people of Uttarpara and its adjoining areas.[8]

Science

Science faculty consists of the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science & Application, Botany, Zoology, Physiology, and Economics.

Arts & Commerce

Arts and Commerce faculty consists of departments: Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Education, and Commerce.

Science

Mathematics, physics, chemistry, phsyiology, zoology and computer science.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Home". rpmcollege.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "History of Raja Peary Mohan College". Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bhattacharya, Chandrima S. (12 August 2023). "Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata's past, August 21, 1938". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  4. ↑ Bengal (India) (1899). Report on the Administration of Bengal.
  5. ↑ The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. 1968. p. 64.
  6. ↑ Siksha o sahitya: Teachers' journal (in Bengali). All-Bengal Teachers' Association. 1968. p. 73.
  7. ↑ The Marxist Review. Ajit Roy. 1967. p. 13.
  8. ↑ "Courses Offered, Raja Peary Mohan College". Retrieved 12 November 2023.
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