emancipation

Garden High School was established in 2000 (first Academic Year 2001-2002) as an effort to translate the visions of the late Satikanta Guha, the Founder of South Point School & High School, one of the largest schools in the world, into reality. The School is being promoted by the Satikanta Guha Foundation under the chairmanship of Mr Indranath Guha. He is a graduate of the Universities of Calcutta and Oxford. After teaching for seven years at Jadavpur University, he joined South Point. He was its Principal for more than 22 years. He has taught English at secondary, higher secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As the Secretary of South Point, which had a combined strength of about 12,000 pupils, 400 teachers and 300 members of office and service staff, he bore the major part of the burden of administration. He, therefore, has considerable experience in both spheres: actual classroom teaching and school administration.

Garden High School was established in 2000 (first Academic Year 2001-2002) as an effort to translate the visions of the late Satikanta Guha, the Founder of South Point School & High School, one of the largest schools in the world, into reality. The School is being promoted by the Satikanta Guha Foundation under the chairmanship of Mr Indranath Guha. He is a graduate of the Universities of Calcutta and Oxford. After teaching for seven years at Jadavpur University, he joined South Point. He was its Principal for more than 22 years. He has taught English at secondary, higher secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As the Secretary of South Point, which had a combined strength of about 12,000 pupils, 400 teachers and 300 members of office and service staff, he bore the major part of the burden of administration. He, therefore, has considerable experience in both spheres: actual classroom teaching and school administration.

With the end of the East India Company’s regime in India and the failure of the first armed uprising in 1857, for India’s freedom, a new era dawned in our country. It was clear that the emancipation of our land and the transformation of the life of our people had to be brought about by peaceful and constitutional means. Indian renaissance had began and it heralded the role which education needed to play to achieve national aspirations. Wood’s Education Despatch (1854), the Education Commission of 1882 and the Hunter Commission (1891), were all indicative of the concerted efforts, of both the Government and the Indian people, in the enterprise of education. The Founders of the Fergusson College had first started the New English School, Pune in 1880 and later established the Deccan Education Society (DES) in 1884. This was followed by the bold step to start the first ever privately managed college in India, on the 2nd January 1885, naming it as the Fergusson College.