History

THERE ALWAYS REMAIN PROFOUND ENDEAVORS, UNTIRING LABORS, CLOSE CO-OPERATIONS AND STRONG SUPPORTS IN THE MAKING OF AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WHICH IS NEVER A DAY'S RESULT. AND GOKARNA PRASANNAMOYEE HIGH SCHOOL IS NO EXCEPTION. IT IS A SCHOOL THAT GRACEFULLY AGES MORE THAN 100 YEARS, A SCHOOL THAT HAS FACED MANY STORMS IN ITS LONG JOURNEY, HAS FACED LOTS OF IMPEDIMENTS, IN ITS PATH BUT GETTING OVER ALL SUCH HINDRANCES, IT HAS HELD ITS HEAD HIGH IN ESTEEM. MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO IT WAS REALLY HARD TIMES WHEN THE BRITISH COLONIAL POWERS WERE HIGHLY ACTIVE TO DIVIDE BENGAL; AND THE ACTIVISTS OF NATIONALIST MOVEMENT WERE UNITEDLY AGAINST THE PARTITION OF BENGAL AND WERE DETERMINED TO FREE THE NATION FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE BRITISH RULER. DURING SUCH A DIFFICULT SITUATION, TWO GENEROUS ZEMINDARS TRUE EDUCATIONALISTS NAMELY SRI TARAKNATH ROYCHOWDHURY AND NILKANTA ROY OF GOKARNA - KHOSHBASPUR REGION IN THE DISTRICT OF MURSHIDABAD CAME FORWARD WITH THE NOBEL INTENTION OF PULLING OUT THE EDUCATIONALLY DEPRIVE STRATA OF THE SOCIETY FROM THE DEEP DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE AND TRIED THEIR BEST IN SPREADING THE LIGHT OF EDUCATION AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF THE REGION. THEY WERE VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF EACH OTHER. THE ZEMINDAR OF GOKARNA, TARAKNATH ROYCHOWDHURY, INITIALLY OPENED A SCHOOL IN A HUT MADE OF MUD AND STRAW. BUT SOME DISHONEST, EVIL-MINDED PEOPLE WERE AGAINST SUCH HONEST ENDEAVOR AND THEY WOULD OFTEN SET THE SCHOOL ABLAZE. WHEN SRI TARAKNATH ROYCHOWDHURY EXPRESSED HIS STRONG DESIRE TO OPEN A SCHOOL, SRI NILKANTA ROY READILY AGREED AND GAVE HIM THE PERMISSION. SRI TARAKNATH ROYCHOWDHURY HAD ALSO A WISH. AS HE WOULD ADDRESS THE MOTHER OF SRI NILKANTA ROY, PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI AS 'MOTHER', HE WANTED THE SCHOOL TO BE NAMED AFTER HER. AS A RESULT, SRI NILKANTA ROY ESTABLISHED THE SCHOOL AT THE LAND OF SRI TARAKNATH ROYCHOWDHURY (IN AN OTHER VIEW SRI NILKANTA ROY HAD PURCHASED THE LAND IN HIS OWN NAME ) IN THE MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI IN 1905 AND GOKARNA PRASANNAMOYEE HIGH SCHOOL CAME INTO BEING. THE SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED RIGHT AFTER THE DAY OF THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF "RAKSHA-BANDHAN" WHERE THE GREAT REVOLUTIONARY ACHARYA RAMENDRASUNDAR TRIBEDI AND THE MAHARAJA OF LALGOLA WERE PRESENT. AT THE VERY OUTSET THE SCHOOL WAS KNOWN AS 'HIGH ENGLISH SCHOOL'. IN 1909 IT GOT THE RECOGNITION OF HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA.