Exhibition
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Introduction to the Exhibition
An introduction to the exhibition, from Revd Professor William Whyte and Dr Mishka Sinha
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Abdul Rasul, 1874-1917 (SJC 1892-1898)
Abdul Rasul was, so far as we have been able to find out, the first non-European student at St. John’s College.
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Edward Theophilus Nelson, 1874-1940 (SJC 1898-1901)
Edward Nelson was born in 1874, in Demerara.
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Francis Evelyn Mahommed Hosein, 1880-1936 (SJC: 1902-1906)
Hosein, like Nelson, was from the West Indies.
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Har Dayal, 1884-1939 (SJC: 1905-7)
Lala Har Dayal, author, Sanskrit scholar, and anticolonial activist, was born in India in 1884.
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Ahmed Abdul El Ghaffar, 1891-? (SJC: 1910‑13)
Ghaffar was born in 1891. He was the son of Ahmed Bey Abd EI Ghaffar, a landowner, and evidently one of some wealt…
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Manicasothy Saravanamuttu, 1895- 1970, (SJC: 1917-19)
Saravanamuttu Manicasothy, or “Sara” as he was known, was born into a prominent Tamil family in Ceylon (now Sri La…
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Ishwardass Jaipal Singh, 1903-1970, (SJC: 1922-6, 1927-1929)
Jaipal Singh Munda, as he is better known, was amongst the most remarkable of many exceptional alumni recorded her…
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Tan Hoon Siang, 1909-1991. (SJC: 1928-32)
Tan Hoon Siang (Tan is the family name) was born in 1909 and educated in Malacca.
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Danial Alma Latifi, 1917 – 2000, (SJC: 1935-8)
Latifi was born in 1917, his father, Dr. Alma Latifi, was in the Indian civil service, and Latifi was educated at …