| Evolution of Daly College |
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| Daly College |
This building was begun in 1882 and opened by Lord
Dufferin in 1885. It was entirely made of reinforced concrete.
The classes were held on the upper floor. The lower floor
accommodated the Principal's office, a general reading room
for the Kumar's and staff and the library, which contained
numerous valuable books on Arts, Science, History, Oriental
Literature.
The bust of General Sir Henry Daly presented
by H.H. the Maharaja is placed in the Central Hall on the
upper floor. When the college moved to its present premises in
1909 the building with the boarding houses was handed over to
the Medical School. |
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| The Principal's Bunglow |
This building was constructed in 1878 out of the money subscribed to the Mayo Memorial Fund. Mr. G. R. Abreigh- Mackay the first Principal of the Indore Residency College first occupied it. |
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| The Indore Residency School |
The office of the Public Works Department now
occupies the original building of the Indore Residency School.
In the room facing the iron gate a separate class for chiefs
attending the class made their own arrangements for boarding
and lodging where the classes were taught by Mr. G. Alberigh
Mackay who was then tutor to minor Raja of Ratlam. This was
the beginning of the Daly College, which was then known as
"The Rajkumar Class" and subsequently in 1982 as "The Indore
Residency RAJ Kumar College" when the classes were moved to
the Old Boarding Houses. |
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| The Old Boarding Houses |
When the Rajkumar classes were separated from
the Indore Residency school in 1882 this house was constructed
on the site of the present K.E. Medical School. It contained
about eight rooms one of them being used as a reading
room. |
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| The Gwalior Boarding House |
This house was built State in 1891 to the
north of the C.I.A. Jail. H.H. Maharaja Tukojee Rao Puar of
Dewas, senior, and H.H. Raja Arun Singh of Narsinghgarh lived
here with their companions and tutors from 1898 to 1903. In
1904 H.H. Maharaja Tukojee Rao Holkar with his guardian Mr.
Percy Hide occupied the house and regularly took part in the
college games. From 1905 to 1908 it accommodated about twenty
Kumars with a housemaster. With many additions and alterations
it is now used as Chief's Guest House.
From 1905 to 1908 it accommodated about
twenty Kumars with a housemaster. With many additions and
alterations it is now used as Chief's Guest House. |
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| The Holkar Boarding House |
The office of the Public Works Department now
occupies the original building of the Indore Residency School.
In the room facing the iron gate a separate class for chiefs
attending the class made their own arrangements for boarding
and lodging where the classes were taught by Mr. G. Alberigh
Mackay who was then tutor to minor Raja of Ratlam. This was
the beginning of the Daly College, which was then known as
"The Rajkumar Class" and subsequently in 1982 as "The Indore
Residency RAJ Kumar College" when the classes were moved to
the Old Boarding Houses. |
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| The New Boarding House |
This was originally the college gymnasium open all around. To provide accommodation for the gymnasium was walled in and made in to a boarding house in 1904 with three large rooms, a bathroom, a room for the house Master and a spacious verandah in the south. To the north of this boarding house were two tennis courts where the European ladies and Gentlemen of the station often came to play tennis with the Kumars. |
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| Old Daly College - Play Ground |
A small plot to the west of the college building was the only playground where the Kumars and the staff played cricket, football and hockey. In 1905 Mr. J.H. Smith the principal inaugurated the C.I.S.A sports association whose first meeting was held on this ground.
Besides riding there were physical and company drills, fencing, bayonet exercise, lance practice, sword exercise, boxing, torchlight parable. In 1906 a separate football ground was made in the extreme north of the compound. |
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