{"id":2586,"date":"2025-05-04T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:26:55","slug":"q-who-among-the-following-was-associated-as-secretary-with-hindu-female-school-which-later-came-to-be-known-as-bethune-female-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-who-among-the-following-was-associated-as-secretary-with-hindu-female-school-which-later-came-to-be-known-as-bethune-female-school","title":{"rendered":"Q. Who among the following was associated as Secretary with Hindu Female School which later came to be known as Bethune Female School?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Annie Besant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Debendranath Tagore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarojini Naidu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bethune-college\"><strong>Bethune College<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>\u201cHindu Female School,\u201d later known as Bethune School and now Bethune College, was a pioneering institution founded in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1849<\/strong>, dedicated to promoting\u00a0<strong>women\u2019s education<\/strong>\u00a0and later became the\u00a0<strong>first women\u2019s college in Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>oldest women\u2019s college in India<\/strong>. It was\u00a0<strong>established as a girls\u2019 school in 1849<\/strong>,\u200a and as a\u00a0<strong>college in 1879<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The college was\u00a0<strong>founded as the Calcutta Female School in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune<\/strong>, with the support of social reformers like\u00a0<strong>Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, as the Secretary of the Hindu Female School, played a crucial role in the development and success of the school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Bethune College:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[42],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-modern-history","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":42,"label":"Modern History"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Modern History","slug":"modern-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}