Bethune College

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Bethune College is a women's college in India. It was founded as a school in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune and in 1871 developed as the first women's college in the country. It is located at 181, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata -700006, just opposite the current campus of Scottish Church College, Calcutta. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

[edit] Famous alumna

• Kadambini Ganguly, among the first female graduates of India and the first female physician of South Asia to be trained in the European system of medicine
• Chandramukhi Basu, later principal of Bethune, thus the first female head of an undergraduate academic establishment in South Asia; graduated with Ganguly
• Kamini Roy, Bengali poet, social worker and feminist; the first woman honours graduate in India
• Pritilata Waddedar anti-British pro-India revolutionary
• Leela Roy, social worker, freedom fighter

[edit] External links

• On Bethune College, from Banglapedia
• About Bethune, from calonline.com
• Postal stamp for the College centenary