Question

(e) The original name of the present Cotton
Collegiate School was​

Answer 1

Answer:

Guwahati Seminari

As per the recommendations of the General Committee of Public Instruction, the Commissioner of Assam, Captain Jenkins started an English school at Gauhati in 1835. This school was known as “Guwahati Seminari” which is the present Cotton Collegiate School in Panbazar.

Answer 2

The original name of the present-day Cotton Collegiate School was Guahati Seminary.

• The school was set up after Captain Francis Jenkins collected money from the townspeople for the educational institution
• The school started operations in the year 1835 and had fifty-eight students in its first year
• English was given special importance, along with history and literature as focus points
• Many notable Assamese individuals owe their lives to the institution; notably, Anandram Barua, who was the first Assamese to be a part of the Indian Civil Service, and Zalinur Ali Ahmed and Sibram Bora, who were the first Assamese individuals to be part of the Indian Medical Service
• The institution was declared as a collegiate school in the year 1865 and was renamed the Cotton Collegiate School at the cusp of the twentieth century

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