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Lady Brabourne College
 The College hostel which started accommodating students since 1939 however remained only for Muslims. It was only after 1947 that the hostel opened its doors to students from all communities. Classes for Intermediate Arts started in July 1939 with 35 Muslim girls. Miss F.E. Grose was appointed Principal. There were only 9 faculty members Miss Jean Mc Fayden (Prof. of English) Miss Shamsun Nahar Mahmud (Prof. of Bengali) Miss Fatema Begum (Lecturer in Urdu) Mr. Reza Ali Wahshat (Prof. of Persian) Maulana Abdul Khalique (Prof. of Arabic) Dr. Roma Chaudhuri (Prof. of Logic and Philosophy) Mrs. Bina Ghosh (Prof. of History) Mrs. Snigdhaprabha Mitra (Prof. of Mathematics) and Miss Kamala Sen (Lecturer in Civics and Economics). Mrs. Sabera Taib was the Librarian. Members of the Governing Body included Begum Hamida Momem MLC Mrs. Fara Bano Khanum MLA Mrs. Hasina Murshed MLA and MBE (she was made Member of the British Empire by the then Emperor George VI on the recommendation of the Governor of Bengal Sir John Woodhead) and Miss S.B. Gupta. Affiliated to the University of Calcutta the college at its inception began with teaching Urdu Persian Arabic Bengali English History Philosophy Mathematics and Economics as Optional and Pass Papers that were later extended to Honours level. Sanskrit Chemistry Physics and Geography were introduced in 1941 Zoology and Botany in 1950-51 and Political Science and Hindi in 1960. Lady Brabourne was first among the Government Colleges in West Bengal to start Sociology at the Undergraduate level when it was introduced as a Pass paper in 1988. It became an Honours course in 1994. The College was also the first women’s college that introduced Statistics as a PassGeneral Paper in the year 2000. While the department of Microbiology was established in 2002 Statistics was elevated as an Honours department in 2005.
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