Anandamohan Bose

Background

Anandamohan was born at Jaysiddhi village in Mymensingh District of Bengal province in British India (in Itna Upazila of Kishoreganj District of present-day Bangladesh). His father was Padmalochan Bose and mother was Umakishori Devi.

Education

In 1874, he became the first Indian Wrangler (a student who has completed the third year of the Mathematical Tripos with first-class honours) of the Cambridge University.

Career

He co-founded the Indian National Association, one of the earliest Indian political organizations, and later became a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was also a prominent religious leader of Brahmoism and with Sivanath Sastri a leading light of Adi Dharm. He passed his matriculation examination from the Mymensingh Zilla School and stood ninth in the examination.

He passed his Field Artillery and Bachelor of Arts examination from the Presidency College, Calcutta and secured first position in both the examination.

In 1870, he received the Premchand Roychand studentship. In 1878, he went to England for higher education along with Keshab Chandra Senator.

Anandamohan was a supporter of Brahmo Dharma from his student days.

He was elected its first president In 1879, he founded the City College, Calcutta, as an initiative by the movement.

He protested against changing the composition of Educational Service.

Anandamohan was interested in politics from his student days. While in England, he founded "India Society" along with a few other Indians. He was also associated with "Indian League" founded by Sisir Kumar Ghosh.

He was the secretary of "Indian Association" till 1884 and was its president throughout his lifetime.

He protested against acts like Vernacular Press Acting and the reduction of the maximum age for Indian Civil Service Examination. He presided in the protest meeting against Partition of Bengal held at Federation Hall in 1905, where his address was read by Rabindranath Tagore due to his ill health.

Achievements

• Anandamohan was the founder of City School and City College in Kolkata.

Politics

He founded the Students" Association with an objective of promoting nationalism among the students and along with Surendranath Banerjee and Shibnath Shastri organised regular lectures.

Membership

He was also associated with Calcutta University and was elected a member of Education Commission.