# Rajshahi Collegiate School

Rajshahi Collegiate School (Bengali: রাজশাহী কলেজিয়েট স্কুল), a public school for boys located in Boalia Thana in the center of Rajshahi, which is a metropolitan city in northern Bangladesh, is the oldest school in the country.

## History

Rajshahi Collegiate School is the oldest educational institution in Rajshahi city. Rajshahi Collegiate School was established in 1828. The school was nationalised by the provincial government of Bengal and was converted into a government zilla (or district) school on 20 June 1836
In 1873 the Zilla School was given the status of an Intermediate College, and F.A. courses were introduced into its curriculum. With further development this college was accorded "first-grade rank" in 1878, which meant that it could teach B.A. courses and be affiliated to the University of Calcutta. Later the college part got separated and named as Rajshahi College.
After completing MA in philosophy from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1895, Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah went on to serve as the first Muslim headmaster of Rajshahi Collegiate School. He was active from 1904 to 1907.

## Headmasters

| SL | Headmaster's name | Working period start | Working period end |
| 1 | Sri Sarda Prasad Basu | 1836 | 1844 |
| 2 | Mr. Riz | 1844 | 1852 |
| 3 | Sri Hargobind Sen | 1852 | 1864 |
| 4 | Sri Jadunath Mukherjee | 1864 | 1870 |
| 5 | Sri Kalinath Dey | 1870 | 1872 |
| 6 | Sri Govinda Chandra Maitra | 1872 | 1873 |
| 7 | Sri Hargobind Sen | 1873 | 1879 |
| 8 | Sri Kalikumar Das | 1879 | 1891 |
| 9 | Sri Loknath Chakraborty | 1891 | 1892 |
| 10 | Sri Shashi Vushan Sen | 1892 | 1898 |
| 11 | Sri Joy Gopal Dey | 1898 | 1902 |
| 12 | Sri Rajendranath Banerjee | 1902 | 1904 |
| 13 | Sir Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah | 1904 | 1907 |
| 14 | Sri Brajaballav Dutta | 1907 | 1911 |
| 15 | Sri Avaycharan Das | 1911 | 1913 |
| 16 | Sri Chintaharan Chakraborty | 1913 | 1924 |
| 17 | Sri Dhirendranath Sen | 1924 | 1926 |
| 18 | Sri Prasanya Kumar Dev | 1926 | 1931 |
| 19 | Sri Bijay Chandra Sen | 1931 | 1934 |
| 20 | Sri Satish Chandra Sen | 1934 | 1939 |
| 21 | Sri Manimohan Sengupta | 1940 | 1941 |
| 22 | Mohammad Asad Abdul Mahmud | 1941 | 1944 |
| 23 | Mohammed Hidyatul Islam | 1944 | 1946 |
| 24 | Sri Bijay Kumar Bhattacharya | 1946 | 1947 |
| 25 | M. Khalil | 1947 | 1951 |
| 26 | M.A. Latif | 1951 | 1956 |
| 27 | A.K.M Hashem | 1956 | 1958 |
| 28 | Abdul Jobbar Ahmed | 1958 | 1959 |
| 29 | M. Imran Ali | 1959 | 1966 |
| 30 | Mohammed Abdur Razzak | 1966 | 1967 |
| 31 | Mohammed Khalilur Rahman | 1967 | 1972 |
| 32 | Muhammad Izharul Haque | 1972 | 1974 |
| 33 | Rashid Ahmed | 1974 | 1978 |
| 34 | Mohammed Bahadur Ali Sarker | 1978 | 1979 |
| 35 | Mohammed Izabul Haque | 1980 | 1983 |
| 36 | Mohammed Ramzan Ali | 1983 | 1987 |
| 37 | Muhammad Anowar Hossain | 1988 | |
| 38 | Mohammed Nawshad Ali | 1988 | 1992 |
| 39 | Mrs. Rawshon Jahan | 1992 | 1998 |
| 40 | Mohammed Entazur Rahman | 1998 | 2000 |
| 41 | Mohammed Abul Kashem | 2000 | 2002 |
| 42 | Mohammed Hafizur Rahman | 2002 | 2004 |
| 43 | Mohammed Abul Kashem | 2004 | 2006 |
| 44 | Mohammed Golam Hossain | 2006 | 2007 |
| 45 | Dr. Mst. Nurjahan Begum | 2007 | till this day |

## Notable alumni

* Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) A. K. Khandker
* Archaeologist Ramaprasad Chanda
* Archaeologist Sarat Kumar Ray
* A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton
* Fazle Hossain Badsha
* Former Justice Fazlul Haque
* Historian Akshay Kumar Maitreya
* Khademul Bashar Bir Uttom
* Mazharul Islam
* Mizanur Rahman Minu
* Mrinal Haque
* Najib Tareque
* Ritwik Ghatak
* Faruq Mahfuz Anam
* Jadunath Sarkar
* Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury