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Date 1857 - present
Areas Of Involvement public education
Notable Alumni Satyendra Nath Bose • Mamata Banerjee • Bharati Mukherjee • Somnath Chatterjee • Mrinal Sen • Rajendra Prasad • Dilip Shanghvi • Mujibur Rahman • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Abhijit Banerjee

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