Oriental Seminary

It was the first privately-run, first-rate[further explanation needed] school for children of Hindu parents in [Kolkata (then known as Calcutta).

[1] In earlier days, students wanting to study English had to go to the missionary schools, where they were subject to substantial religious influence.

The establishment of a school for learning English free from religious influences was a major contribution of Addy.

[citation needed] Gour Mohan Addy (20 January 1805 – 3 March 1846) founded the school without government funding.

[6][7][8] Among the list of other notable alumni are Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati,[9] Krishnadas Pal, Girish Chandra Ghosh, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, Sambhunath Pandit, Vishwanath Datta, Amrita Lal Basu, Akshay Kumar Datta, Sudhindranath Dutta,[10] Jatindranath Sengupta, Swami Abhedananda, Bankim Ghosh, Malay Roy Choudhury and Mithun Chakraborty.