Government Sadiq Dane High School, also known as S. D. High School, is a

high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

located in

Bahawalpur Bahawalpur (Urdu: ; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 13th largest city of Pakistan and List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, 8th most populous city of Punjab. Bahawalpur is the capital of Bahawalpur Division. Founded in ...

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. It is the largest school in Bahawalpur with over 2000 students currently enrolled. The building of the school is well known for its clocks.

History

The S.D. High School building, completed in 1906, initially housed the first-ever college, named Sadiq Egerton College Bahawalpur, within the territory stretching from

to Sadiqabad and Mandi Mcleod Ganj in the Bahawalnagar district. It bore the names of the late Nawab Muhammad Sadiq Khan Abbasi and

Robert Eyles Egerton Sir Robert Eyles Egerton (15 April 1827 – 30 September 1912) was a British administrator in the Imperial Civil Service who served as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. Biography He was born ...

, then Lt Governor of Punjab. Following the college's relocation in 1952-53, the building was repurposed for the S.D. High School, which moved from the nearby Government Technical High School. It was initially known as Sadiq Darul Aqama. The building has a clock that was made by the Bing Bang Company of Britain. The school was inaugurated by

Louis Dane Sir Louis William Dane (21 March 1856 – 22 February 1946) was an Anglo-Irish administrator during the time of the British Raj. Early life He was born on 21 March 1856 at Chichester, Sussex, the fifth son of Richard Martin Dane, an army staff ...

on February 13, 1911, and is named after him and Nawab of Bahawalpur.

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