Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya

Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya (School for Hindu Women) was a boarding school located at 22 Beniapukur Lane, Entally, Kolkata, founded by Annette AkroydBagal, Jogesh Chandra, "History of the Bethune School and College (1849-1949)" in "Bethune College and School Centenary Volume", edited by Dr. Kalidas Nag, 1949, p33] The school had the distinction of marking a break with the dominant discourse that believed in less taxing curricula for girls. It provided the same kind of learning for its students as was available for boys.cite web
url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070204/asp/opinion/story_7340747.asp
title = Lessons in a Sari - Did women’s education in India change the way they dressed?
accessdate = 2007-04-18
last = Karlekar
first = Malavika
work =
publisher = "The Telegraph", 4 February 2007] Different sources record different dates for the establishment of the school. While Jogesh C. Bagal, records the date of establishment as 18 November 1873 David Kopf mentions it as 18 September 1873.Kopf, David, "The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind", 1979, pp. 34-39, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691031258]

Dwarkanath Ganguly was the headmaster. Ananda Mohan Bose and Durga Mohan Das bore the expenses of the institution. [Sastri, Sivanath, "History of the Brahmo Samaj", 1911-12/1993, p. 164, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. ] Others involved in the school were Sivanath Sastri and Monomohun Ghose. Mrs. J.B.Phear was an honorary teacher. Under Annette's strict supervision the school was run along western lines. cite web
url = http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/B_0437.htm
title = Beveridge, Annette Susannah Akroyd
accessdate = 2007-04-18
last = Amin
first = Sonia
work = Banglapedia
publisher =Asiatic Society of Bangladesh] She went to the extent of teaching her students how to eat at table with cutlery.

After the marriage of Annette Akroyd, the school was closed in March 1876 for a short time and was revived on 1 June 1876 as Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College).

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* There is a picture of Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875, from Henry Beveridge’s "India Called Them" (1947). - cite web
url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050508/spectrum/main1.htm
title = Frozen Frames
accessdate = 2007-04-19
last =Karlekar
first = Malavika
work = Spectrum
publisher = "The Tribune", 8 May 2005

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