Benutzer:Shi Annan/Dhaka College

Dhaka College (Vorlage:Lang-bn) also known as DC is one of the most important as well as the earliest higher secondary educational institution of Bangladesh located in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. It offers higher secondary education (HSC). It has Honours and Master's programs as well which are affiliated with the University of Dhaka.

History

The East India Company and British rule were closely related to the spread of modern education in the subcontinent. During the Company rule, the rulers established the Calcutta Madrasah (now Aliah University) in 1780 and the Sanskrit College in Varanasi in 1791 for the Indians, and the Fort William College in 1800 for the employees of the East India Company.

But through the 'Charter Act 1813', the East India Company was instructed by the British government to focus on the education of Indians. The act was the foundation of modern Indian education. Hindu College (now Presidency University) was established in 1817.

After that, almost two decades passed in various debates about the means and methods of spreading education in India. In 1835, a member of the British Parliament, Lord Macaulay, proposed in the 'Minute on Education' that India's education should be in the English language and in the light of European knowledge. As a result, the Governor General of India Lord Bentinck gave the 'English Education Act' effect. The 'General Committee of Public Instruction', the then government agency responsible for the country's education system, in a report submitted on 20 April 1835 to Lord Bentinck, recommended to establish schools in major cities under the Bengal Presidency to teach English literature and science. They also recommended to allocate money from the government fund for establishing such schools wherever possible and to start the program from Dhaka and Patna.

The proposal was approved on June 24, 1835. The first government school in the whole of Bengal was established in Dhaka on July 15, 1835 by Dr. James Taylor Wise, Civil Surgeon of Dhaka, in a hired house of East India Company. The school was known as 'Dhaka English Seminary'. A local Committee of Public Instruction was formed by Dr. Wise with the help of District Magistrate Mr. Grant to conduct the administrative and academic affairs of the school. The school building was built partly out of public donations on the grounds of an English factory. With this school, Dhaka became an important center for the spread of modern education. The school created an unprecedented impact on the socio-economic arena of Dhaka city. Learners of this region were introduced to the western modern art, science and philosophy of the west for the first time.

Later, Lord Auckland, the Governor General of India, presented his famous Minute on Education in 1839, following which the General Committee of Public Instruction proposed the establishment of a college in Dhaka to the Governor General in 1840. The proposal was approved on July 18, 1841. On November 20, 1841, Dacca Central College was established. Cambridge University student and Hindu College (now Presidency University) teacher J. Ireland was appointed the first Principal.

Dhaka College in 1904 (located at Dhaka Collegiate School premise)

Dhaka College, one of the main educational institutions of the subcontinent, started its journey with 3 rooms on the second floor of the English Seminary School (now Dhaka Collegiate School) building. The local 'Public Education Committee' bought the land for the college building. Colonel Garstin designed the building. On November 20, 1841, Reverend Daniel, Bishop of Calcutta, laid the foundation stone of the college at Sadarghat. The construction of the building was completed in 1844 and on May 25, 1844 the students started their education in the new building. In the first graduating class there were both Muslim and Hindu students, as well as a number of foreign students, mainly from Armenia and Portugal. Since its inception, Dhaka College has been an important educational institution in Bangladesh for leading the cultural, social and intellectual activities of East Bengal.

It was renamed as Dacca College in 1846.

In 1854, due to 'Education Dispatch' of Sir Charles Wood, discipline and coordination was established in Indian modern education. Due to the new educational policy, since 1854 the meritorious students of Dhaka College got the opportunity to study medicine in Calcutta Medical College, the only medical college in the subcontinent that time.

After the establishment of Calcutta University in 1857, Dhaka College was affiliated to it. In the first year, 4 students were sent from Dhaka College to appear in the BA examination, although one student appeared in the examination named Deenanath Sen.

In 1873, the College was relocated to a spacious building to the east of Victoria Park to accommodate the increased number of students and the physics and chemistry laboratories. In 1875, a separate science building was established and science classes were opened in Dhaka College. Dhaka College became the heart of modern education in East Bengal by providing higher education in philosophy, history, literature, mathematics, law and science - which continued until the establishment of Dhaka University in 1921.

First modern designed student hall of Dhaka College (1908), now known as Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah Hall of University of Dhaka

However, there was no dormitory in Dhaka College until 1880. Though a dormitory was built in 1874, it did not last long. Subsequently, the first dormitory named Rajchandra Hindu Student Hostel was constructed at Shridas Lane, Bangla Bazar for Dhaka College in 1880 with a completely private grant subject to the permission of the government.

In 1903 new infrastructure plans were made for Dhaka College and in 1904 land was acquired and construction work started. On February 19, 1904, Lord Curzon inaugurated the construction of Curzon Hall. At a government meeting on May 27, 1904, it was decided to build a modern dormitory for Dhaka College. In 1908, construction of Curzon Hall was completed and Dhaka College was shifted to Curzon Hall and some adhering buildings at Ramna area after the partition of Bengal. The road on the east of Curzon Hall was named as College Road when Dhaka College was here. In March 1908, the construction of Dhaka Hall (now Shahidullah Hall) was completed. Dhaka College transformed into a full-fledged residential college here in a beautiful natural setting with a separate science building, Dhaka Hall (now Shahidullah Hall) for students and four residential buildings for professors.

With the beginning of the World War I in 1914, its adverse impact on Dhaka College resulted in declination of academic activities and other development works. Even, there were chances of the college buildings being taken over by the military. In July 1920, another college named Dacca Intermediate College was founded comprising the intermediate classes of Dhaka College for strategical reasons. On August 20, 1920, the new college was moved to the then Engineering School (now BUET) campus. Only the remaining BA, BSc, MA and MSc classes were accommodated in Curzon Hall.

On July 1, 1921, the University of Dhaka was established. Dhaka College has a glorious contribution and sacrifice for the establishment of the University of Dhaka. A section of Dhaka College was merged with the newly created university. In fact, all the movable and immovable properties of Dhaka College, students, teachers, staffs, employees, books, library, science rooms and various buildings were brought under the university so that the university could start its academic activities on July 15, 1921. A large amount of college land and campus, hostels and other infrastructures, scientific equipment and various scholarships allotted to meritorious students were also handed over to the university.

On the other hand, Dhaka College was shifted to the Residence of Lieutenant Governor (Old High Court Building) and the Engineering School (now BUET) building was made the student hostel of the college. The Engineering School (now BUET) was moved to Secretariat building. In 1943, the High Court College building had to be vacated to rehabilitate the wounded soldiers of World War II. The armed forced occupied the building and used it as a tent. Then the college was shifted temporarily to Islamic Intermediate College (now Kabi Nazrul Govt. College) located in Luxmibazar. Shortly afterwards, the official and academic activities of the college were conducted in a rusty old private building of late Khan Bahadur Abdul Hai located in Siddiq Bazar, adjacent to Fulbaria Station. Apart from this, a few houses were rented and used as college hostel.

In 1955, the journey of Dhaka College was started anew with new infrastructures in the present campus at Dhanmondi with a land area of 24 acres. In 1972, undergraduate courses on some subjects were reopened.

In 1982, the English spelling of the city was officially changed from Dacca to Dhaka. As a consequence the college was named Dhaka College.

During the Ershad period, the college had to relinquish about 6 acres of land. At present, the college is situated on a land of 18.57 acres.

The Intermediate courses were discontinued in 1996 and reopened in 2010.

Affiliations

• University of Calcutta
  (18 July 1857 – 1 July 1921)
• University of Dhaka
  (1 July 1921 – 20 October 1992)
• National University, Bangladesh
  (21 October 1992 – 15 February 2017)
• University of Dhaka
  (16 February 2017 – present)

Facilities

The library of Dhaka College was established in 1841 at the time of the establishment of the college. It has a collection of around 50,000 books.

Laboratory

• Physics Lab
• Chemistry Lab
• Botany Lab
• Zoology Lab
• Computer Lab

Academic building

• Main Building
• Botany Building
• ICT Building
• Lt. Sheikh Jamal Academic Building

Transportation

A number of college buses ply on main routes of Dhaka city to transport students living away from the college since 1992. Vorlage:Colstart

• Pushpok
• Shonkhochil
• Shonkhonil
• Poddonil
• Bijoy 71Vorlage:Colend

Dormitory

There are 8 dormitories in the college campus.

• North Hall
• South Hall
• Southern Hall
• Sheikh Kamal Hall (Only HSC students)
• International Hall
• Akhteruzzaman Elias Hall
• Shaheed Farhad Hossain Hall
• West Hall (Except Muslim students)Vorlage:Colend

Other facilities

• Library
• Cafeteria
• Mosque
• Medical Center
• Gymnasium
• Central Playground
• Dormitory Playground
• Lawn Tennis Court
• Basketball Court
• Pond
• Flower garden
• Shaheed Minar
• Principal's residence
• Residential building for TeachersVorlage:Colend

Academics

Dhaka College offers two years of Higher Secondary, four years of Honours and one year of Master's courses in various disciplines.

Higher Secondary course

The college offers higher secondary courses according to the curriculum of National Curriculum and Textbook Board in three different disciplines. After two years of course, Higher Secondary Certificate examination is held under Dhaka Education Board.

Enrollment every year

Group	#
Science	900
Business Studies	150
Humanities	150

Undergraduate and Graduate program

Undergraduate (Honours) and postgraduate (Master's) programs are running in 19 departments. Noncredit course for post graduate students in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was started from 1 August 2010.

Faculty

Dhaka College consists of 20 departments under some faculties. There are 200+ teachers in these departments. Many of them hold PhD, MPhil and other higher degrees. Vorlage:Colbegin Faculty of Science

• Botany
• Chemistry
• Geography and Environment
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Physics
• Statistics
• Zoology
• ICT

Faculty of Arts

• English
• Bengali
• History
• Philosophy
• Islamic History and Culture
• Arabic and Islamic Studies

Faculty of Social Science

• Economics
• Political Science
• Sociology

Faculty of Business Studies

• Management
• Accounting

Notable alumni

Academia and science

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
M. Zahid Hasan		The Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University Scientist, named to endowed professorship
Musharrof Husain Khan	Intermediate 1951	5th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Muhammad Shahjahan		6th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Nooruddin Ahmed		8th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Muhammad Ibrahim	Intermediate 1918	8th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka Former Law Minister of Pakistan
Abdul Matin Chowdhury	I.Sc. 1939	14th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
AAMS Arefin Siddique		27th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
A R Mallick	Intermediate 1936	1st vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong Former Minister of Finance Historian and educationist
Jamilur Reza Choudhury	Intermediate 1959	Former vice-chancellor of University of Asia Pacific Former vice-chancellor of BRAC University Former president of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee National Professor of Bangladesh Recipient of the Ekushey Padak Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker government of Bangladesh
Zafrullah Chowdhury		Recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award Recipient of Independence Award Public health activist
Amit Chakma	Intermediate 1976	19th vice-chancellor and President of the University of Western Australia 10th President of the University of Western Ontario
Abdur Razzak		Educator, intellectual and one of the National Professors of Bangladesh
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury	Intermediate 1944	Prominent Bengali essayist, educator and linguist of the Bengali language and Martyred Intellectual
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal		Academic and writer, recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award
Haider A. Khan		Freedom Fighter, professor, international economist, poet, translator, literary, music, art and film critic
Mohiuddin Ahmad		Writer and political historiographer
Dinesh Chandra Sen	FA 1885	Writer, educationist and researcher of Bengali folklore
Mir Masoom Ali	I.Sc. 1953	George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus, statistician and educator
Qazi Motahar Hossain	BA (Hons.) 1919 MA 1921	Author, statistician, chess player, journalist and one of the National Professors of Bangladesh
Khan Bahadur Abdul Aziz	Graduate 1886	Educationist, writer and social worker
Syed Modasser Ali		Ophthalmologist
Mohammed Fazle Rabbee	Intermediate 1950	Cardiologist, medical researcher and martyred intellectual
Meghnad Saha	I.Sc. 1911	Fellow of the Royal Society Astrophysicist and developer of Saha equation
Akbar Ali Khan	I.Sc. 1961	Economist Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker government of Bangladesh
Abdul Karim	I.Sc. 1942	Soil scientist
M Harunur Rashid	I.A. 1942	Archaeologist, educationist and museum curator
Mohammad Samir Hossain		A theorist in death anxiety
Debapriya Bhattacharya		Economist and public policy analyst
Maqsudul Alam		Life-science scientist, first to decode the genome sequence of jute in Bangladesh and receiver of the Independence Day Award

Government and politics

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury		12th President of Bangladesh
Zillur Rahman		14th President of Bangladesh
Tajuddin Ahmad		1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom		Former President of the Maldives
Golam Maula Rony		Politician, businessman & writer
Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury		Known as Nixon Chowdhury, is a Bangladeshi politician
Rashed Khan Menon		Politician
Abdur Razzaq		Former minister of water resources
Shafique Ahmed		Former minister of law
Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir		Former minister of home affairs
Faruk Khan		Former minister of civil aviation and tourism
Kazi Zafarullah		Industrialist and politician
Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury		Energy Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Bir Bikrom
Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali		Diplomat and politician, former Bangladesh foreign minister
Zunaid Ahmed Palak		Lawyer and politician, current Telecommunications & Information Technology Minister
Nicholas Pogose		Armenian merchant and zamindar
Anwarul Iqbal		BPM (Bar), PPM, adviser (2007–2009) to the interim Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, founder Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
A. F. M. Abdur Rahman		Justice of Bangladesh Supreme court
Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed		Former Attorney General

Military and diplomacy

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
Major General Khaled Mosharraf		Bir Uttom, 4th Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh Army
Colonel Shafaat Jamil		Bir Bikrom
Ismail Faruque Chowdhury		Former Engineer-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Army
Sheikh Kamal		Freedom fighter, founder of Abahani Limited (Dhaka)
Sheikh Jamal		Freedom fighter, second son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Shafi Imam Rumi		Freedom fighter and martyr, son of Jahanara Imam
Dinesh Gupta		Indian revolutionary who took part in the Writers' Building attack

Corporate and entrepreneur

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
Imran Khan		Former Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Snap Inc. Entrepreneur
Fazle Hasan Abed		Founder and former chairman of BRAC Recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award
Mustafa Jabbar		The entrepreneur behind the Bijoy Bangla computing interface Current technocrat Minister of Post and Telecommunication

Culture and literature

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
Humayun Ahmed		Novelist, filmmaker, songwriter, and chemist
Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury		Writer, columnist, philosopher and lyricist of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano
Akhteruzzaman Elias	Intermediate 1960	Novelist and short story writer
Alauddin Al-Azad	Intermediate 1949	Author, novelist, poet, literary critic and educationist
Mohammad Rafiq		Poet Recipient of Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Literary Award
Lutfor Rahman Riton		Recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award
Nowsher Ali Khan Yusufzai		Writer and philanthropist
Shamsur Rahman		Poet
Mahadev Saha		Poet
Kaiser Haq		Poet and writer
Abu Zafar Obaidullah		Poet
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah		Poet
Abul Hasan		Poet and journalist
Shahidul Zahir		Poet
Ghulam Murshid		Author, scholar and journalist

Media, entertainment and sports

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
Niaz Murshed		Chess Grandmaster
Waheedul Haq		Journalist, writer, musicologist, and one of the founders of Chhayanaut
Abul Mansur Ahmed		Journalist, recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award and Independence Day Award
Ahmed Humayun		Journalist, recipient of the Ekushey Padak
Serajur Rahman		Journalist, broadcaster, columnist
Abul Kalam Shamsuddin		Journalist and author
Shafik Rehman		Journalist
Alamgir Kabir	I.Sc. 1954	Film director and cultural activist Recipient of Independence Award
Rathindranath Roy		Musician
Tanzir Tuhin		Architect, musician, and member of the band Avash
Shafiq Tuhin		Lyricist and music director
Manna		Actor
Khaled Khan		Actor
Shajal Noor		Actor
Afran Nisho		Actor
Ferdous Ahmed		Actor
Mosharraf Karim		Actor

Bureaucrat

Name	Batch	Notability	Notes
Monirul Islam (police officer)		Additional commissioner of Bangladesh Police and the current Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC)
Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta		ICS, Member, Secretary of State's Council, UK (1907)
A. F. Mujibur Rahman		Jurist and first Bengali Muslim Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer

Notable faculty

Name	Notability	Notes
Ayub Ali	Islamic scholar, author and educationist
Akhteruzzaman Elias	Novelist and short story writer
Akhtar Imam	Educationist and social activist
Iqbal Azeem	Urdu poet and scholar
Nurul Haque Miah	Professor of chemistry
George Harry Langley	2nd vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
Walter Allen Jenkins	7th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
Muhammad Mansuruddin	Author, literary critic, essayist, folklorist, lexicographer and biographer Recipient of Independence Award, Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Literary Award
Mohammad Noman	Educationist Recipient of Ekushey Padak
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	General Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)
Shawkat Osman	Novelist and short story writer
Alauddin Al-Azad	Author, novelist, poet, literary critic and educationist
Mohammad Rafiq	Poet Recipient of Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Literary Award
Prasanna Kumar Roy	First Indian principal of Presidency College, Kolkata
Abdullah Abu Sayeed	Educationist
Kazi Abdul Wadud	Essayist, critic and dramatist

Gallery

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  Akhtarujjaman Elias Hall, Dhaka College
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  "Shongkhocil Bus" of Dhaka College
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  Cafeteria of Dhaka College

External links

• Official Website
• Dhaka College Alumni Category