Surendranath Law College

{{short description|Law college of West Bengal, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox university | name = Surendranath Law College | image_name = Main gate of Surendranath Law College 01.jpg | former_name = Department of Law, Ripon College (1885-1911) <br> Ripon Law College (1911-1947) | established = {{start date and age|1885}} | type = postgraduate Law college | principal = Dr. Mohammadi Tarannum (Vice-Principal) | affiliations = University of Calcutta | city = Sealdah, Kolkata | state = West Bengal | country = India | coordinates = {{Coord|22.5695344|N|88.3672145|E|region:IN-WB_type:edu|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = India Kolkata#India | campus = Urban | website = {{URL|http://snlawcollege.ac.in/}} | logo = | logo_size = 100px | logo_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Surendranath Law College''' (''Bengali'' :সুরেন্দ্রনাথ আইন কলেজ) formerly known as ''Ripon College'') is an postgraduate law college affiliated with the University of Calcutta. It was established in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1885 by a trust formed by the nationalist leader, scholar and educationist Surendranath Banerjee, a year after he founded Surendranath College.<ref>{{cite EB1922 |wstitle=Banerjea, Sir Surendranath }}</ref> This is now regarded one of the oldest Law college of British India.<ref>{{Cite book|title=From the principal's Desk|last=Dr. Somnath Mitra|first=Piyas|publisher=Chatra Sansad|year=2002|location=kolkata|pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.highereducationinindia.com/institutes/surendranath-law-college-kolkata-2139.php|title=Surendranath Law College Kolkata|website=highereducationinindia.com|access-date=30 May 2017}}</ref>

==History== The first name of the college was Presidency School in 1882,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asianage.com/books/book-review-nation-making-banerjea-s-nation-man-and-his-history-005|title=Book review 'A Nation in Making': Banerjea's nation-A man and his history|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> when it was handed over to Sri Banerjee on 1 January 1884. That same year the Post-Graduate Department of Law was extended, and it was affiliated to the Calcutta University as an independent professional college in 1885. Banerjee renamed the school the Presidency Institution and brought it to the status of a college affiliated to the F.A. standard. The name was later changed to Ripon College, named after the British Viceroy George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z26AVsD6ew0C&dq=Surendranath+Ripon+college&pg=PA44|title=Our Leaders|year=1989|isbn=9788170114871|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUwlf7LZgrUC&dq=Presidency+institution+calcutta&pg=PT77|title=An Indian for All Seasons: The Many Lives of R.C. Dutt|last=Meenakshi Mukherjee|year=2009|isbn=9780143067894|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> The name was changed again in 1949 to honour its founder Sri Surendranath Banerjee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Surendranath-Banerjea|title=Sir Surendranath Banerjea|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&dq=Surendranath+Ripon+college&pg=PA68|title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis|last=Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti|date=22 August 2013|isbn=9780810880245|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> The women's section of the college was founded in 1931 by Mira Datta Gupta, its first principal. Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.<ref>{{Citation|last=Pinakpani|title=English: Surendranath Law College, former Ripon College in Sealdah, Kolkata|date=2019-11-24|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_gate_of_Surendranath_Law_College_06.jpg|access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref> In 1911, Rabindranath Tagore read out at this college one of his essays dealing with the twin subjects of separatism to be found among many of countrymen and national integration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.snlawcollege.ac.in/page.aspx?id=1#|title=About us|last=SURENDRANATH LAW COLLEGE|website=snlawcollege.ac.in|access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.surendranathcollege.org/profile/brief-history/|title=Surendranath College|last=Brief History|website=surendranathcollege.org|access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref> This college was recognised by the University Grants Commission in 1972.<ref name=":1" /> The college now offers LLM courses.{{cn|date=June 2021}}

== Notable alumni == * Dr. Rajendra Prasad - The first President of India. * Harendra Coomar Mookerjee - The first Governor of West Bengal. * Sir Bijan Kumar Mukherjea - The first Bengali Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. * Birendranath Sasmal - Nationalist barrister and politician.<ref name=":0" /> * Manmatha Nath Mukherjee - Judge, Calcutta High Court and Bengali jurist * Mohammad Mohammadullah - President of Bangladesh<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mohammadullah,_Mohammad|title=Mohammadullah, Mohammad|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> * Panchanan Barma - Social reformer * Basanta Kumar Das - Pakistani federal minister. * Dhirendranath Datta - Indian Freedom fighter and Bangladeshi activist. * Khondakar Abu Taleb - Bangladeshi journalist and Martyr * Shahidullah Kaiser - Bengali intellectual and Martyr * Phani Bhushan Majumder - Former minister of Bangladesh<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asiantribune.com/node/85772|title=Reminiscence of Revolutionary Leader Phani Bhusan Majumder|website=asiantribune.com|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> * Rabin Deb - Bengali politician * Golam Rahman (writer) - Bengali writer * Aniruddha Bose - Judge of the Supreme Court of India * Abdul Matin Chaudhury (1895-1948) - Muslim league politician<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shibly|first=Atful Hye|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ua3y6g7IHMAC&dq=passed+from+ripon+college+calcutta&pg=PR8|title=Abdul Matin Chaudhury (1895-1948): Trusted Lieutenant of Mohammad Ali Jinnah|date=2011|publisher=Juned Ahmed Choudhury|isbn=978-984-33-2323-1|language=en}}</ref> * Mosharraf Hossain - Member of Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh, founding vice-president of JASAD. * Ishaa Saha, actress

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