Patna College

But due to the gradual increase in the number of students, up to the end of the eighth decade, honours classes of various art courses were conducted in their respective colleges.

However many teachers of Patna College still have been bearing the responsibility of postgraduate education by attending the departments in Darbhanga House.

On 9 September 1974, the Economics department was split from the Patna College and it took form into Vanijya Mahavidyala.

Forster met Charles Russell and V. H. Jackson, who were professors of the college, in the course of writing his novel, A Passage to India.

Forster had collected Hiuen Tsang's Indian Diary from Russell before he made his visit to Barabar Caves that appear as an important location in the novel.

The legendary filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, used the picturesque campus of the college for his award-winning film, Seemabaddha.

[7] Coinciding with the anniversary is the centenary of the Bihar Legislative Council, which held its first session in the seminar hall of Patna college in 1913 and returned there to mark the occasion on 20 January 2012.

Patna College
View of Patna College, Administrative Block in the middle
Western Corridor Gateway of Patna College
View of college from Western Corridor
Western Corridor Patna College with the language wing in the far
Language Wing connected with Western Corridor
Ground Floor Stairway
Upper Stairway