Today our topic of discussion is Early Schools in Dhaka .
Early Schools in Dhaka
While these momentous events were taking place in Calcutta and to a less spectacular extent, in Comilla, Dhaka was experiencing its own upheavals in the field of female education.
As in Calcutta missionaries were active in the matter of female education in Dhaka also. In 1824 there was a girls’ school in Dhaka “The Christian female school run by Mrs. Charles Leonard. The school was closed down in 1826 after her sudden death. This and other schools in East Bengal were run by the Serampore Mission.
The Narandiya School started with 30 girls. Muddarbari School in Chittagong had 50 girls and went up to the 3rd and 4th classes. The students were mostly under six. Another one at Muradpur had students who were 10 to 17 years old.
There was a school at Bhaluadigi. Zenana classes were also held at many boy’s schools and pathshalas. In 1876 Dr. Annada Charan Khantagir, established a middle English Girls School in Chittagong. In 1907 his son-in-law transformed it into Dr. Khasta- gir Girl’s High School, a noted institution in East Bengal, where many dau- ghtern of illustrious families came to study.
Mymensingh had a rich history in female education from the 1860s onward; Alexander Duff Girls School (probably later renamed Bidyamoyee) attracted large numbers of giris eager for education. Local zamindars were also very active in this culturally advanced area, and founded girls’ schools on private initiative.
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