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| Type | Undergraduate college |
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| Established | 1939; 86 years ago (1939) |
| Affiliation | University of Calcutta |
| Principal | Siuli Sarkar |
| Address | P-1/2, Suhrawardy Avenue,Beniapukur ,,,700017 ,22°32′44″N88°22′08″E / 22.5454875°N 88.3689926°E /22.5454875; 88.3689926 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | ladybrabourne.com |
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Lady Brabourne College (LBC) is an institution for women's education inKolkata,India. The college admitsundergraduates andpost-graduates, and awards degrees from theUniversity of Calcutta. It is astate government administered college and is in one of the more cosmopolitan localities of the city.[1]
Lady Brabourne College was established in July 1939 at a rented house inPark Circus inCalcutta (nowKolkata), following the initiative of the thenPrime Minister of Bengal,A. K. Fazlul Huq.[2] It was named afterDoreen, Baroness Brabourne, anAnglo-Irish aristocrat who was the wife ofThe 5th Baron Brabourne, the thenGovernor of Bengal.[2]
Lord Brabourne died on 23 February 1939.Sir John Herbert, the next Governor, laid down the foundation stone of the college on 26 August 1939. The college had 50 percent reserved seats for Muslim women and the rest for Hindus, Parsees, Sikhs, Jains and other ethnic communities.[2]
The hostel facility was kept exclusively for Muslims. The college started admitting Hindu students due to shortage of Muslim students.[3] It has since become difficult for Muslim students to get admission to the college according to theAll India Minority Association.[4] In 2017 the college, along with others affiliated with the University of Calcutta, was given the authority to award the degree ofdoctor of philosophy (Ph.D.).[5]
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