Jagannath Hall

Coordinates: 23°43′45″N 90°23′39″E / 23.729088°N 90.394242°E / 23.729088; 90.394242
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Jagannath Hall
জগন্নাথ হল
Gate of the Jagannath Hall
Established1921
ProvostMihir Laal Saha
Students2492
Location
Dhaka
,
Bangladesh

23°43′45″N 90°23′39″E / 23.729088°N 90.394242°E / 23.729088; 90.394242
AffiliationsUniversity of Dhaka
WebsiteOfficial site

Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University is a residence hall for minority students, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and others. It is one of the three original residence halls that date from when the university was founded in 1921, and like them is modelled on the colleges of the University of Oxford, a complex of buildings including residences, meeting rooms, dining rooms, a prayer hall, gardens, and sporting facilities. Of the approximately 2000 students of the hall, half live in the residences, and half are non-residential students affiliated with the college. Several professors at the university hold the positions of house tutors and provost at the hall.[1]

Structures

The hall includes four residential buildings:

  • Govinda Chandra Dev building
  • Sontosh Chandra Bhattacharya Bhavan (New Building)
  • October Memorial Building (October Smiriti Bhaban)[2]
  • Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta building

History

Establishment

Kisorilal Roy Chowdhury, the

Jagannath College named after his father Jagannath Saha, also established this hall of University of Dhaka.[1]

University of Dhaka was established in 1921 as a merger of the two institutes of higher learning that existed in the city at that time,

Dr Muhammad Shahidullah Hall
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The first Provost of this hall was Professor Naresh Chandra Sengupta, who served from 1921 to 1924.[4] Other famous provosts include philosopher Govinda Chandra Dev (who served from 1957 to 1970) who was murdered by the occupying Pakistani army in 1971, along with the then current provost Professor Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta.

Assembly House

On 20 June 1947, 141 East Bengali legislators from the

Muslim League's Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin became the first chief minister. He was succeeded by Nurul Amin in 1948. The assembly was housed in Jagannath Hall,[6]

25 March 1971

Grave of the 1971 martyrs, in front of Jagannath Hall

After midnight on 25 March 1971, the campaign of genocide (Operation Searchlight) against intellectuals by the Pakistani army took place in the Dhaka University area. Jagannath Hall could not be defended against this action, and many residential students and employees were killed on that night. Professor Jyotirmoy Guhathakura and Professor Govinda Chandra Dev, the former and current provosts, were also murdered at their apartments on Secretariat Road.

1985 Jagannath Hall tragedy

October Smriti Bhawan (October Memorial Building)

On 15 October 1985, a tragic accident occurred when the roof of the ancient assembly building of Jagannath Hall collapsed. It killed 39 people, students, employees and guests. Since then the day is observed as a day of mourning for the university. In 1988 the building was reconstructed as a residential building, and named October Memorial Building.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jagannath Hall". Jagannath Hall Alumni Association of Canada. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Jagannath Hall tragedy day observed". The Daily Star. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. ^ Harun-or-Rashid, Mirja (2012). "Jagannath College". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  4. ^ "Hall Provosts". Jagannath Hall Alumni Association, Dhaka University. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  5. ISBN 978-0-521-30448-1
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  6. ^ The All Pakistan Legal Decisions. The All-Pakistan Legal Decisions. 1949. p. 6.
  7. ^ "Jagannath Hall tragedy remembered". The Daily Star. 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  8. ^ "Jagannath Hall tragedy Oct 15". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2019-10-17.

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