:: Rajkumar College ::

Rajkumar College, Raipur, one of the premier institutions of Eastern India, was founded by Sir Andrew Fraser, the then Chief Commissioner of C.P. & Bear in the year 1882 at Jabalpur as a hostel known as the "Rajkumar School". Admission in those days was restricted to the sons and relatives of the Ruling Chiefs and Zamindars of the Eastern States and the funds were largely donated by the erstwhile Rulers and Zamindars of Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Bihar. The School functioned at Jabalpur till 1894. It was then decided to shift it to its present site at Raipur, making it a full fledged school with boarding house facilities.

Sir Andrew Fraser

The seeding being done, the sprouting was left in the hands at Rev.G.D. Oswell, who was the Principal of the School from 1894 to 1910. He had a delicate and difficult task before him-to put the school on a very sound tooting and he performed it admirably.

PUBLIC SCHOOL'S CONFERENCE, 1939:

During the Principal-ship of Mr. T.L.H. Smith Pearse, the College become one of the founder members of the Indian Public Schools' Conference along with the Doon School, Dehradun, The Daly College, Indore, Scindia School, Gwalior, and the Rajkumar College, Rajkot in the year 1939.

It was in 1940 that the College introduced Sanskrit as a compulsory subject and began to give great importance to dramatics, painting and music, besides many other co-curricular activities and hobbies. Soon after it became a member of the Indian Public School's Conference, admission was thrown open to all boys without any distinction of caste, creed or colour.

CENTURY OLD INSTITUTION:

The month of January 1982 saw the Rajkumar College join the exclusive club of schools on completing a glorious hundred years of its service to the cause of education. Shri Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, Governor of M.P. Shri Arjun Singh, Chief Minister of M.P & Shri J.B. Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa graced the function by their presence on three different occasions in the Prize Giving functions held that year.

The Dept. of Post & Telegraph of the Govt. of India came out with a postage stamp & First Day Cover to mark the occasion. It is further remarkable to note that the College has completed hundred years of its establishment at

Raipur in 1994. A documentary entitled "RAJKUMAR COLLEGE, A CITADEL OF LEARNING" was made on the college by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting through the Films Division, Mumbai in 1994, to mark the completion of more than hundred years of this historic institution. The documentary was made in thirteen languages and shown in the Cinema halls throught the country.

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