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{{Infobox school<br />
| name = Hooghly Collegiate School<br />
| image =File:Hooghly Collegiate School in early 2000s.jpg<br />
| caption = Hooghly Collegiate School in early 2000s<br />
| location = [[Chinsurah]]-712101<br>State-[[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| type =[[Government of West Bengal|Government School (directly, Government of West Bengal)]] <br />
| established = {{start date and age|1812}}<br />
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| affiliation = [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education|WBBSE]] & [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education|WBCHSE]]<br />
| campus = Urban<br />
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'''Hooghly Collegiate School''', established in 1812, is one of the oldest in [[Hooghly district]] , [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
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==History==<br />
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[[File:Front Gate of Hooghly Collegiate School.jpg|thumb|Front Gate of Hooghly Collegiate School]]<br />
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HCS's early provenance is sketchily documented in ''Karuņāsāgar Vidyāsāgar'', quoting from 'Education Committee' reports, periodicals and other print media of that period. <br />
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The name of the school changed once or twice, till it came to be known as 'Hooghly College' and thence 'Hooghly Collegiate School' when the college wing was created. The location underwent changes, too.{{cn|date=February 2015}} The so-called 'new building' (to the 'Ṣāṇḍeśvar Talā' end of the prayer ground, to house the laboratories and the classes IX to XI of the new Higher Secondary scheme) and the box-like, stand-alone crafts-cum-smithy building were completed in 1956-57. The oldest building of the school and part of the adjoining Mohsin College were [[Hazi Mohammad Mohsin]]'s personal property. <br />
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==Notable alumni==<br />
* [[Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay]](1838 - 1894)<br />
* [[Dwarka Nath Mitra]] (1833 - 1874) <br />
* [[Brahmabandhab Upadhyay]] (1861-1907) (admitted into Hooghly Collegiate School in 1874)<br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
In author Suman Sen's 2017 horror-comedy book ''Koto Bhoot! Ki Adbhut!'', the main protagonist Batuk babu was an alumnus of this school.{{cn|date=December 2020}} <br />
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