Sivanath Sastri College

Sivanath Sastri College And Its Library Sivanath Sastri College (South City College Women’s Branch) has a noble past and a great heritage. On 6 January 1879 a high class English institution called City School was opened chiefly through the endeavours of two great Brahmo leaders Ananda Mohan Bose and Sivanath Sastri. On 17 January 1881 the school was raised to First Arts (F. A.) standard. Thus City College was born. Within a couple of years it became a First Grade Degree college imparting secular knowledge in early twentieth century Bengal. South City College and its Women’s branch owe their origin to this City College. As an extended part of the nineteenth century Brahmo educational movement Sivanath Sastri College strives to provide quality education to women. It is known that the City College had an extremely fine and rich collection of books as early as the beginning of the last century. It grew particularly under the careful eyes of its principal, Heramba Chandra Moitra. Much credit goes to Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, who as librarian applied modern scientific methods to organize City College library. It is said that after the South City branch finally settled down at the prese