Jenkins School is a boys school in the Indian state of

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

. It was established in 1861 in the town of

Cooch Behar Cooch Behar (), also known as Koch Bihar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and it stands on bank of the Torsa river. The city is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the ...

History

After the independence of India in 1947 the princely state of Cooch Behar became the Cooch Behar district of

in 1950, and Jenkins School became one of the state government schools. The school was under the patronage of the then

Maharaja Maharaja (also spelled Maharajah or Maharaj; ; feminine: Maharani) is a royal title in Indian subcontinent, Indian subcontinent of Sanskrit origin. In modern India and Medieval India, medieval northern India, the title was equivalent to a pri ...

(king) of Cooch Behar,

Jagaddipendra Narayan Sir Jagaddipendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, (15 December 1915 – 11 April 1970) was Maharaja of Cooch Behar, in India. He served in British forces during World War II and ceded full ruling powers to the Government of India in 1949. Early li ...

and the government of West Bengal.

Notable alumni

Maziruddin Ahmed Maziruddin Ahmed (born December 1898) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was the MLA of Cooch Behar Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Early life and education Ahmed was born in Dece ...

(born 1898), Cooch Behar politician *

Mustafa Kamal Mustafa Kamal, Mostafa Kamal or variations may refer to: * Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (1936–1989), professor of Bengali literature * AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha (born 1963), Major General of Bangladesh Army * Lotfi Mustafa Kamal (born 1952), Egyptian ...

, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh and Chairman of Law Commission * Charu Chandra Dutt, revolutionary, writer *Rai Choudhury Sushil Kumar Chakravarty, Fourth Minister, Cooch Behar State *Rai Saheeb Uma Nath Dutta, Civil and Sessions Judge, Revenue Officer (Dewan), Cooch Behar State *Dr. Bhabendra Narayan *Ambika Charan Roy, Law Practitioner, Social Reformer, Sitarist, Chairman

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Municipality *Dr. Dinesha Nanda Chakravarty, Minister, Cooch Behar State Council *Prafulla Chandra Mustofi, musician *Nirmal Chandra Mustofi, First Class Magistrate, Cooch Behar State, philanthropist and erudite *Himadri Ballav Biswas, Civil and Sessions Judge, Cooch Behar State *Ashruman Das Gupta, Household Minister, Cooch Behar State, Writer *Rajendra Nath Sen, Player, Mohun Bagan Club *Shoilesh Chandra Mustofi, Orchid specialist and Horticulturist *Rai Saheeb Lalit Mohan Bakshi, Revenue Secretary and Development Commissioner, Cooch Behar State, Deputy Collector, Cooch Behar District *Col. Nitya Nanda Chakravarty, I.M.S. *Bireshwar Bakshi, Civil and Sessions Judge *Suresh Chandra Singha, F.R.C.S. *Tarapada Mukhopadhyay, Civil and Sessions Judge, Cooch Behar State *Kumar Surendra Narayan, Player, Mohun Bagan Club *Bhabani Prasanna Talukdar, Member, Legislative Assembly *Rai Saheeb Surendra Kanta Basu Majumder, State Pleader, Member, Legislative Council, Cooch Behar State *

Tulsi Lahiri Tulsi Lahiri (7 April 1897 – 22 June 1959) was a Bengali actor, director and play writer. Early life Lahiri was born in 1897 in a zamindar family of Naldanga village, Rangpur of British India. He passed B.A and B.L and started his lawyer caree ...

, Bengali actor, director and play writer *Shailen Roy (Bana Roy), Music Composer and Lyricist *

Abbasuddin Ahmed Abbasuddin Ahmed (27 October 1901 – 30 December 1959) was a Pakistani folk song composer and singer born in the Bengal province of British India. He was known for Bhawaiya folk song which is a style commonly found in Rangpur, Undivided Goalpa ...

, singer *Subodh Kumar Chakraborty, Writer *Sarat Singha,Player, Mohun Bagan Club *Dr. Amiya Bhushan Guha, chairman, Cooch Behar Municipality *Arun Das Gupta, Player, Mohun Bagan Club

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