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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 9 of 200

Q9
Indian National MovementSocio-Religious & Educational Reform
The Hindu College was founded in the year
  1. a.1818
  2. b.1816
  3. c.1817
  4. d.1819

Answer: (C) 1817

Hindu College was founded in Calcutta on 20 January 1817 with support from David Hare and Raja Radhakanta Deb; it is now Presidency University. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, who taught there, inspired the radical Young Bengal group. The tempting 1818 is the year Serampore College was founded by the missionaries Carey, Marshman and Ward. 1816 and 1819 have no link with the college.

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