Baker Hostel


Baker Hostel is a government hostel located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The hostel was founded in 1910 during the British rule by Edward Norman Baker, the then Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. The hostel is located at 5 Smith Lane in Taltala. Due to the unhygienic environment and inadequate housing system around the Taylor hostel built in 1896 for Muslim students in Kolkata, the students started a movement for the construction of a new hostel. Nawab Abdul Jabbar initiated the movement in 1908. Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, A. K. Fazlul Huq played a major role in establishing the hostel. As a result, government built this hostel.

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