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Khalsa College, Amritsar
Also known as Khalsa College
Khalsa College on Grand Trunk Road at Amritsar, founded in 1892 as the premier college of the Singh Sabha movement to combine Sikh religious instruction with modern science, mathematics and English. The Indo-Saracenic main building by Bhai Ram Singh (1911) is on the Punjab heritage list. The college produced the chemist Har Gobind Khorana (BSc 1943), the writer Khushwant Singh, and several of the mid-century Sikh scientific civil servants. Affiliated to the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.653, 74.816
Connections (2)
- Studied atHar Gobind Khorana
Khorana took his BSc at Khalsa College, Amritsar, in 1943 and his MSc at Panjab University, Lahore, in 1945. The Khalsa College training in chemistry under Mahan Singh was decisive; a Government of India scholarship then took him to Liverpool for a PhD. Twenty-five years later he shared the Nobel Prize for the genetic code.
- Site withinAmritsar
Khalsa College on the Grand Trunk Road at Amritsar — founded 1892 by the Singh Sabha as the premier Sikh collegiate institution to combine Guru Granth Sāhib studies with English, science and mathematics — sits 8 km north-west of the Golden Temple on the way to the Attari border. Bhai Ram Singh's 1911 Indo-Saracenic main building is on the Punjab heritage register.
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