Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya

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Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya (School for Hindu Women) was an all-female boarding school located at 22 Beniapukur Lane, Entally, Kolkata, India.Bagal, Jogesh Chandra, History of the Bethune School and College (1849-1949) in Bethune College and School Centenary Volume, edited by Dr. Kalidas Nag, 1949, p. 33{{cite web|last=Karlekar|first=Malavika|title=Frozen Frames|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050508/spectrum/main1.htm|work=Spectrum|publisher=The Tribune, 8 May 2005|accessdate=2007-04-19}} Founded by British translator Annette Beveridge, the school was one of the first in India to provide girl students with a curriculum equivalent to that offered for boys.{{cite web| url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070204/asp/opinion/story_7340747.asp| title = Lessons in a Sari – Did women's education in India change the way they dressed?| accessdate = 2007-04-18| last = Karlekar | first = Malavika | publisher = The Telegraph, 4 February 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070205103822/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070204/asp/opinion/story_7340747.asp| archive-date = 5 February 2007}} Sources record different dates for the establishment of the school. While Indian historian Jogesh C. Bagal records the date of establishment as 18 November 1873, American historian David Kopf mentions it as 18 September 1873.Kopf, David, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind, 1979, pp. 34–39, Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|0-691-03125-8}}

Dwarkanath Ganguly was the headmaster. Ananda Mohan Bose and Durga Mohan Das bore the expenses of the institution.Sastri, Sivanath, History of the Brahmo Samaj, 1911-12/1993, p. 164, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. Others involved in the school were Sivanath Sastri and Monomohun Ghose. Mrs. J. B. Phear was an honorary teacher.{{cite book |last=Amin|first=Sonia|year=2012|chapter=Beveridge, Annette Susannah Akroyd|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Beveridge,_Annette_Susannah_Akroyd|editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A.|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|edition=Second|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} She went to the extent of teaching her students how to eat at a table with cutlery.

After the marriage of Annette Akroyd, the school was closed in March 1876. It was revived on 1 June 1876 as Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women's College).