College In Aligrah News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Forman’s legacy
March 3, 2021
March 3, 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles W Forman, founder of Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) in Lahore.
Born in the frontier state of Kentucky in 1821, he later attended Princeton University before joining the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board. This in turn paved the way for his departure to the Indian port city then known as Calcutta in 1847 at the age of twenty-six. Two years later he reached Lahore, the place where he would spend most of the rest of his life.
Embodying the phrase ‘missionary zeal’, Forman let nothing stand in the way of his education-focused mission. Rather than charge fees, he paid his first few students one paisa a day to meet for lessons under a tree outside the Old City. Only later was he able to hold classes in a ‘real’ school building. ....

Forman Christian College , United Kingdom , Uttar Pradesh , Himachal Pradesh , United States , West Bengal , Syed Ahmed Khan , Abdul Rashid , Formanite Roedad Khan , Wilfred Cantwell Smith , Aarthur Compton , Charlesw Forman , Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board , Pakistan Civil Service , Pakistan Army , Princeton University , Centers For Scientific , Aligarh Muslim University , Tufts University , College In Aligrah , Forman Christian Collegea Chartered University , Gilgit Baltistan Assembly , Murree Christian School , Northwestern University , Industrial Research , Chartered University ,