Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya (School for Hindu Women) was an all-female boarding school located at 22 Beniapukur Lane, Entally,

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.Bagal, 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 Founded by British translator Annette Akroyd, the school was one of the first in India to provide girl students with a

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equivalent to that offered for boys. Sources record different dates for the establishment of the school. While Indian historian Jogesh C. Bagal records the date of establishment as 18 November 1873, American historian

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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, 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

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and Monomohun Ghose. Mrs. J. B. Phear was an honorary teacher. She went to the extent of teaching her students how to eat at a table with cutlery. After the marriage of Annette Akroyd, the school was closed in March 1876. It was revived on 1 June 1876 as

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(Bengali Women's College).

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Girls' schools in Kolkata Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance Educational institutions established in 1873 1873 establishments in India {{WestBengal-school-stub