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[[File:Annette Akroyd.jpg|thumb|Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875]]<br />
'''Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya''' (School for Hindu Women) was an all-female [[boarding school]] located at 22 Beniapukur Lane, Entally, [[Kolkata]], India.<ref name="Bagal">Bagal, Jogesh Chandra, ''History of the Bethune School and College (1849-1949)'' in ''Bethune College and School Centenary Volume'', edited by Dr. Kalidas Nag, 1949, p. 33</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Karlekar|first=Malavika|title=Frozen Frames|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050508/spectrum/main1.htm|work=Spectrum|publisher=The Tribune, 8 May 2005|accessdate=2007-04-19}}</ref> Founded by British translator [[Annette Beveridge]], the school was one of the first in India to provide girl students with a [[curriculum]] equivalent to that offered for boys.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web| url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070204/asp/opinion/story_7340747.asp| title = Lessons in a Sari – Did women's education in India change the way they dressed?| accessdate = 2007-04-18| last = Karlekar | first = Malavika | publisher = The Telegraph, 4 February 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070205103822/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070204/asp/opinion/story_7340747.asp| archive-date = 5 February 2007}}</ref> Sources record different dates for the establishment of the school. While Indian historian [[Jogesh Chandra Bagal|Jogesh C. Bagal]] records the date of establishment as 18 November 1873,<ref name="Bagal" /> American historian [[David Kopf]] mentions it as 18 September 1873.<ref name="Kopf">Kopf, David, ''The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind'', 1979, pp. 34–39, Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|0-691-03125-8}}</ref><br />
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[[Dwarkanath Ganguly]] was the headmaster.<ref name = "Kopf"/> Ananda Mohan Bose and [[Durga Mohan Das]] bore the expenses of the institution.<ref>Sastri, Sivanath, ''History of the Brahmo Samaj'', 1911-12/1993, p. 164, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.</ref> Others involved in the school were [[Sivanath Sastri]] and [[Monomohun Ghose]].<ref name = "Telegraph"/> Mrs. J. B. Phear was an honorary teacher.<ref name = "Bagal"/><ref name = "Banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Amin|first=Sonia|year=2012|chapter=Beveridge, Annette Susannah Akroyd|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Beveridge,_Annette_Susannah_Akroyd|editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A.|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|edition=Second|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> She went to the extent of teaching her students how to eat at a table with cutlery.<ref name = "Telegraph"/><br />
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After the marriage of Annette Akroyd, the school was closed in March 1876. It was revived on 1 June 1876 as [[Banga Mahila Vidyalaya]] (Bengali Women's College).<ref name = "Bagal"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of schools in Kolkata]]<br />
* [[List of schools in West Bengal]]<br />
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