Lady Brabourne College (LBC) is an institution for women's education in Kolkata, India.
[1] Lady Brabourne College was established in July 1939 at a rented house in Park Circus in Calcutta (now Kolkata), following the initiative of the then Prime Minister of Bengal, A. K. Fazlul Huq.
Sir John Herbert, the next Governor, laid down the foundation stone of the college on 26 August 1939.
The college had 50 percent reserved seats for Muslim women and the rest for Hindus, Parsees, Sikhs, Jains and other ethnic communities.
[4] In 2017 the college, along with others affiliated with the University of Calcutta, was given the authority to award the degree of doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.).