University of Calcutta: Quick Facts

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Date	1857 - present
Areas Of Involvement	public education
Notable Alumni	Satyendra Nath Bose • Mamata Banerjee • Abhijit Banerjee • Mrinal Sen • Somnath Chatterjee • Bharati Mukherjee • Rajendra Prasad • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Dilip Shanghvi • Mujibur Rahman

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Rabindranath Tagore, with long white hair and beard, sits and reads from a paper, wearing traditional clothing in an indoor setting.

Subhas Chandra Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

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