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{{Infobox university<br />
| name = City College<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| image_alt = City College Kolkata Amherst Street building<br />
| caption = City College, Kolkata<br />
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| established = {{start date and age|1881}}<br />
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| type = Undergraduate co-educational college<br />
| affiliation = [[University of Calcutta]]<br />
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| president = Dr. Mukul Kanti Manna<br />
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| principal = Dr. Sital Prasad Chattopadhyay<br />
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| address = 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, College Street<br />
| city = [[Kolkata]]<br />
| state = [[West Bengal]]<br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| postcode = 700009<br />
| coordinates = {{Coord|22.5801231|N|88.3694173|E|region:IN-WB_type:edu|display=inline,title}}<br />
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| website = {{url|http://www.citycollegekolkata.org}}<br />
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'''City College''' (or City College, Amherst Street, Kolkata){{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} is a constituent undergraduate college affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]]. Established in 1881, it is one of the heritage institutions of Kolkata, and played a prominent role in the wake of the [[Bengal Renaissance]] of the nineteenth century. The college is located at 102/1, Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani ([[Amherst Street (Kolkata)|Amherst Street]]), Kolkata-700009. It shares premises with [[Rammohan College]] (morning college) and [[Anandamohan College]] (evening college).<br />
[[File:City College Kolkata Library.jpg|thumb|City College library room]]<br />
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==Notable alumni==<br />
* [[Swami Shuddhananda]], former president of the [[Ramakrishna Mission]]<br />
* [[Soumitra Chatterjee]], actor<br />
* [[Laxminath Bezbarua]], Assamese writer & Poet<br />
* [[Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya]] Lexicographer, Author, Dramatist & Tea Planter<br />
* [[Barun Sengupta]], the founder-editor of [[Bartaman]] newspaper<br />
* [[Shakti Chattopadhyay]], poet<br />
* [[Haradhan Bandopadhyay]], actor<br />
* [[Mahesh Chandra Ghosh]], philosopher, Brahmo<br />
* [[Mohit Chattopadhyay]], playwright, screenwriter<br />
* [[Muhammad Shahidullah]], linguist<br />
* [[Rajanikanta Sen]], poet, composer<br />
* [[Samir Roychoudhury]], poet, writer<br />
* [[Satyendra Chandra Mitra]], freedom fighter, politician<br />
* [[Sunil Kanti Roy]], Managing Director of [[Peerless Group]] and [[Padma Shri]] awardee<br />
* [[Birendra Nath Mallick]], Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate<br />
* [[Bankim Ghosh]], Bengali actor and theatre personality<br />
* [[Jibanananda Das]], noted bengali poet and writer<br />
* [[Bhaskar Saha]],Immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate<br />
* [[Pran Ranjan Sengupta]], Mathematician and scientist<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[List of colleges affiliated to the University of Calcutta]]<br />
*[[Education in India]]<br />
*[[Education in West Bengal]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110829161153/http://www.citycollegekolkata.ac.in/ Official website]<br />
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