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Date 1857 - present
Areas Of Involvement public education
Notable Alumni Gotabaya Rajapaksa • Verghese Kurien • C.V. Raman • Sarojini Naidu • Raman Sukumar • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar • S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan • Sir Benegal Narsing Rau

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